How Liberal is UChicago?

phoenix1616
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:27:19 +0000

Don’t conflate the school’s position on “free expression” with student opinions. The doctrine has no effect on campus life as far as I can tell after being here for a bit over three years. The admin is also very unpopular among students.

There will be a survey of political opinions of the incoming first years coming out in the next couple of weeks in the Maroon. For the last three classes, it’s turned out ~75% liberal and 5-10% conservative. The vast majority of the conservatives I know are big business types, not Evangelical or Trumpist. I would guess that there are roughly equal numbers of students who identify as conservative and “radical Left” (including Marxists, etc) on campus.