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<p>Washington Times carries a lot of weight. Indeed it does. It’s owned by a convicted felon, known anti-Semite, gay-basher, and general lunatic who thinks he’s a deity. Boy the conservatives have really sunk low. The Times is one of the most one-sided, dishonest rags in the country. </p>
<h2>Joe do you really believe that Grove City is better than every state university in the East, which is what the contributor said?</h2>
<p>1) One does not condemn everything a newspaper says without investigating the backdrop of their article. For that matter, I don’t believe the reporters of the newspaper are lying. It is a well known fact that in most universities Democrats outnumber Republicans by a significant number.</p>
<p>This has nothing to do with being “poor conservatives” (in the case of studying in a school like Berkeley ) or “poor liberals” (in the case of studying in a school like Grove City). It simply relates to PERSONAL PREFERENCES.</p>
<p>If you’re religious, believe in traditional values, prefer a campus where people overwhelmingly believe in God and is affordable at that, of course you won’t be comfortable in a party college or a college where students are liberal or are into beer and casual sex. That goes without saying.</p>
<p>2) What’s “better or worse” is as far as I am concerned, is a RELATIVE thing. What’s better for person A is not necessarily better for person B.</p>
<p>The important thing is for the school to conform to your personal moral values and to prepare you for what you want to do after graduation without having to graduate with tons of debt.</p>
<p>I for one know that lots of Grove City College kids go on to graduate with good jobs ( Their stats say that 91% of their grads find good jobs within 6 months of graduation and more go on to graduate school in some of the top graduate schools in the country ). The tuition plus board and lodging is in the vicinity of $18,000 ( and you might even qualify for need based aid ). Plus every student who enrolls is given a laptop and printer which is theirs to keep when they graduate.</p>
<p>the main question then to ask is this — IS THE COLLEGE A GOOD FIT FOR YOUR TEMPERAMENT, VALUES and PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS ?</p>
<p>That’s the bottom line. Some will say yes, and some will say HELL NO.
But that’s ostensibly a personal preference.</p>
<p>Grove City was brought up simply because the school meets the requirement (cheap tuition) posted by the OPS. Add that to the fact that it is a very selective and competitive school with rigorous academics, it is then worthy of consideration (again for the right kind of person ).</p>