Here’s a list of America’s Most LIBERAL colleges. You will see that this list mostly coincides with the list that is the most gay-friendly.
http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_LiberalColleges/Top_10_Politically_Liberal_Colleges.html
Providing counterpoint to their right-wing doppelgängers at The Princeton Review’s ten most conservative schools, students at these ten schools wear their mantles of liberalism with pride. According to the Princeton Review’ s annual survey of college students, students at these schools can never veer too far left of mainstream.
1. Mills College (Oakland, California)
A pervasive opinion of Mills students is that if you aren’t a leftist-socialist-Nader voter or at least one of leftist leanings, you are often dismissed as someone of no consequence and possibly a “racist, classist, elitist” by the student body. Whether they call themselves “progressive” or “narrow-minded,” most students are proud to be members of the Mills community. A student nods, “Our pride is our greatest strength.”
Students who considered Mills also looked at Azusa Pacific University, Chapman University, Santa Clara University, and Whitman College.
2. Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)
When conservatives complain about PC campuses and ultraliberal students, they might well be specifically describing Bard. It’s the kind of place where students tell you that “we are more concerned with the terrorism for which our government is responsible than the terrorism that targets the United States,” and mean it.
Students who considered Bard also looked at Bennington College, Colgate University, Skidmore College, and Vassar College.
3. New College of Florida (Sarasota, Florida)
While New College especially embraces the liberal mindset—the student body is a “motley bunch of (mainly) leftist, spoiled Americans kids,” as one student put it—that doesn’t mean that different views aren’t tolerated. “Regardless of your race, age, creed, gender, or sexual orientation, you will fit in here.” (A student even goes so far as to say that “males and straight people are the minority.”)
Students who considered New College also looked at Bates College, Eckerd College, Knox College, and University of Florida.
4. Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts)
Politically, “Hampshire students are ultra-liberal. While many would claim that we are an open-minded community because all kinds of lifestyles and ethnic groups are accepted, just try bringing in a conservative speaker to campus and students will be there quicker than the lifespan of a Hollywood marriage to protest, disrupt, and cause mayhem.” Students are proud to report that Hampshire is extremely GLBT-friendly.
Students who considered Hampshire also looked at Amherst College, Clark University, Emerson College, and Oberlin College.
5. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, North Carolina)
Politically, Warren Wilson “consists of various facets of the left wing: the Democrats, the Greens, and the anarchists. No Republican has ever set foot on this campus. Ever. If they did, they’d probably be pelted to death with hand-rolled cigarette butts,” writes one undergrad.
Students who considered Warren Wilson also looked at Antioch College, Guilford College, Lewis & Clark College, and St. John’ s College (New Mexico).
6. Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York)
With about three-quarters of the student population being white as well as “extremely liberal,” it sometimes seems that “the student body is much more homogenous than they like to believe.” But as you’ll find at any campus, generalities don’t tell the whole story. “Students at times can be cold, pretentious, and alienating,” concedes one sophomore. “But at other times [they] can be warm, generous, and accepting. It’s a bit of a bipolar campus.”
Students who considered Sarah Lawrence also looked at Barnard College, Boston University, Bryn Mawr College, and Skidmore College.
7. Pitzer College (Claremont, California)
Beware if you’re a student at Pitzer whose views skew mainstream conservative: “They tend not to tolerate political views to the right of Lenin,” one freshman observes of his classmates. Pitzer students wear their activist label proudly. It doesn’t stop there, though; profs and administrators intimately understand the school’s common theme of social responsibility and embrace it.
Students who considered Pitzer also looked at Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, Colorado College, and Occidental College.
8. Reed College (Portland, Oregon)
Stereotypically, Reedies display their liberal beliefs like a badge; students agree this perception is largely true. One student asserts that “at times, the political liberalism of the student body is undoubtedly stifling to fundamentalist Christians and Republicans”— not that Reed fosters a thriving population of right-wingers.
Students who considered Reed also looked at Bard College, Grinnell College, Pomona College, and Harvard College.
9. Marlboro College (Marlboro, Vermont)
Marlboro was started by Walter Hendricks for veterans of World War II who returned from the front and wanted a rigorous education rooted in an ideal of student independence. Their legacy sustains. Marlboro students pride themselves on their independence. All in all, most members on “Planet Marlboro” “get along” and remain “very open to a diversity of lifestyles.” This is a good thing because of “the smallness and isolation of the campus—any enemy you make you will see at every meal for four years.”
Students who considered Marlboro also looked at Bennington College, Haverford College, Middlebury College, and Princeton University.
10. Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana)
The undergraduates of Earlham College agree that “the underlying Quaker values are what make this school so great. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with community.” Adds one of the school’s few social and political conservatives, “The school accepts everything that society apparently does not (homosexuals, alternative religions, drug use, alternative medicine, vegans).” Another counters that “overall, Earlham is a very tolerant place where students never have to be afraid to disagree.”
Students who considered Earlham also looked at Beloit College, Denison University, Dickinson College, and Kenyon College.
Well we know Becker and Fagen won't be going back.
I can’t believe Washington University isn’t on that list.
Mills College in Oakland is a women’s college, and is very much a lesbian factory. I know this from first-hand experience.
‘”Another counters that “overall, Earlham is a very tolerant place where students never have to be afraid to disagree.” ‘
Yeah, right. Let’s ask any of the few conservatives if this is true.
Missing Evergreen and Smith. Smith is so leftist and lesbian that even lesbians I know hesitate to send their daughters there!