Unhappy at Northwestern :(

Sam_Lee
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:45:51 +0000

Being “more liberal than average” out of a selected cohort that is not all that liberal is not that much of an achievement, seems to me.



I didn’t say anything about “achievement”. I merely showed the data and let the OP decide if the school is liberal enough for him or not. He’s only been there for less than two quarters and he might have a wrong impression about the students. According to the data, half of the students consider themselves liberal and less than 14% are conservative and less than 0.5% are far right. But the OP might have thought otherwise.



a lot of the schools listed are also southern schools (vanderbilt, emory, rice, duke, what’s case western? i won’t include USC or caltech)

the fact that northwestern is barely more liberal than these conservative schools is probably proving the opposite

USC is not University of South Caronlina. Is there any reason you didn’t mention schools like Penn, Chicago, Cornell? I didn’t know Duke, Rice, and Emory are “conservative schools”. I let the folks from those schools speak for themselves.

OP may have been misled by statements showing Northwestern is more liberal than average compared to cohort institutions, without realizing the cohort referenced was BYU, Yeshiva, Bob Jones University, the Vatican, etc.

??? Comparing Northwestern to those schools is just absurd. The cohort NU used is left leaning as a whole. I bet even at Duke, more students checked off “liberal” than “conservative”. I really don’t know what your real point is.