Socially Conscious Universities???

tk21769
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 20:35:44 +0000

If Brown and Columbia are realistic reaches, then GW should be a match (as long as it appears to be affordable). Maybe Wesleyan or UCLA, too.

Among research universities of that caliber, I don’t think any are significantly more “socially conscious” than those. They (as well as the other Ivies and peer schools) all enroll a variety of students (across the left v. right and apathetic v. activist spectrum). If you want a higher concentration of left-liberal activism or stronger institutional commitments, you’d probably need to look at small “alternative” schools like College of the Atlantic or Warren Wilson. As for more-or-less mainstream LACs, have you looked at Reed, Vassar, Oberlin, or Macalester?

If your priority is socioeconomic or racial diversity, you might want to consider more public universities esp. in states with large minority populations. What about Berkeley?