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Young America's Foundations Top 10 Conservative Colleges for 2006-2007 (Great Value for Money)
Young America's Foundation ^ | 2007

Posted on 07/10/2007 7:33:10 AM PDT by SirLinksalot

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To: SirLinksalot

Ah, I see that the Princeton Review article you linked has BYU as #3.


41 posted on 07/10/2007 11:26:02 AM PDT by Logophile
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To: SirLinksalot

Grove City College bump!


42 posted on 07/10/2007 11:28:11 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: netmilsmom

Yep! And then you could afford to visit them more often. I could be completely wrong about that, so check it out. (But that is what I recall from my sister’s recent college experiences.) I still have a year or so before we start worrying about colleges.


43 posted on 07/10/2007 11:29:31 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: Logophile
Ah, I see that the Princeton Review article you linked has BYU as #3.

How can we forget Brigham Young ? Alma matter of would-be president Mitt Romney ? ( graduated Summa Cum laude I heard ).

I gather BYU students are required to adhere to a strict honor code that forbids extramarital sexual relations, alcohol or drug consumption, and cheating.

And if you're a voyeur, I gather that you'll be miserable at BYU because their honor code also requires that students be religiously active, wear modest clothing, and avoid outlandish hairstyles ( anybody dyed their hair green out there ?).

BTW, I gathered the following interesting things about BYU (from a Mormon friend who tried unsuccessfully to convert me ) :

1) Most male BYU students take a two-year hiatus from their studies to become Mormon missionaries, and many of them obtain a level of foreign language proficiency while they are doing so.

2) Because about 70% of student tuition is funded through the LDS Church tithing funds, BYU has relatively lower tuition than comparative private universities. Great value for money.

3) BYU has been on the American Association of University Professors' list of censured schools since 1998. SEE HERE :

http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon312.html
44 posted on 07/10/2007 11:40:07 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: FreedomProtector
Grove City College bump!

Are you an Alumnus ? Maybe you can tell us what you think of this college... a lot of parents are considering sending their kids there after all the buzz it has been getting the past year at US News, Kaplan and Princeton Rewview.
45 posted on 07/10/2007 11:41:52 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: SirLinksalot
Yep, that's the one.

After graduating from BYU, I went on to UC Berkeley for graduate school. Talk about culture shock!

46 posted on 07/10/2007 11:49:43 AM PDT by Logophile
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To: soccermom

I have about 10 to go.
By then I’m sure I’ll be waving good-bye!


47 posted on 07/10/2007 11:51:08 AM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: SirLinksalot

Sounds like a list of the top 10 schools where “you ain’t gettin’ none.”


48 posted on 07/10/2007 11:56:54 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Sounds like a list of the top 10 schools where “you ain’t gettin’ none.”

LOL. Not exactly. You have to wait till you're married. :)
49 posted on 07/10/2007 12:15:15 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: milwguy
Congrads milwguy....

However, because they do not take federal money (and unless an exemption was added to the code) "529" College Savings Plan Money cannot to my knowledge be used.

Most people are unaware of this conundrum

Please inform me if things have changed....

50 posted on 07/10/2007 12:19:15 PM PDT by taildragger
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To: SirLinksalot
Grove City College bump!

Are you an Alumnus ? Maybe you can tell us what you think of this college... a lot of parents are considering sending their kids there after all the buzz it has been getting the past year at US News, Kaplan and Princeton Review.


Yes, I am! Go Wolverines!





Grove City is one of the best undergraduate colleges in the world.

51 posted on 07/10/2007 12:23:45 PM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: FreedomProtector
Yes, I am! Go Wolverines!

I thought Wolverine was a teacher at the school of Professor-X, apparently I was mistaken. :)
52 posted on 07/10/2007 12:29:13 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: taildragger

I will have to check on that tail........that is interesting....I would not think 529money should be exempt, but with our gov’t, who knows?


53 posted on 07/10/2007 12:31:44 PM PDT by milwguy
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My sister in-law attended Creighton and wound up secretly marrying a Muslim from Lebanon who was attending Creighton as well. They let him go to school there even though he had entered the U.S. on a visitor visa, not to attend school. It was nearly 7 years before any of her family found out she was married to this guy who keeps a book on nuclear physics on his book shelf next to a copy of the Quran.


54 posted on 07/10/2007 1:20:34 PM PDT by ReagansRaiders ("Fearsome" Fred Thompson '08)
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7 years before they found out she was married ??

And Creighton let him attend school ??

Hmmmmm

55 posted on 07/10/2007 1:29:07 PM PDT by coder2
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Another good one is John Paul the Great Catholic University.

From the website:

John Paul the Great Catholic University is a visionary teaching institution focused on and dedicated to molding students into future innovators and creators, leaders and entrepreneurs. Students have the opportunity to acquire a deep and personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. Catholic ethical, moral, and social values provide a guiding compass for everything we do. The Senior Business Plan provides a framework for student teams, with diverse skill sets, to spark new ideas, to unleash talent, and to create opportunities by building new entrepreneurial ventures. Experienced faculty guide the incubation and launch of the student businesses into the marketplace.

The Founders are driven by the vision of creating a world-class university for students seeking degree programs in communications media, technology, and business. The curriculum will rigorously prepare students to challenge a world in which there is an explosion of knowledge but not of understanding, a lack of trust and ethics in leadership and the media, a need for new enterprises that demonstrate a moral and ethical purpose, and an obligation to recognize the intrinsic human value of its workers.

56 posted on 07/10/2007 1:41:33 PM PDT by It's me
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To: SirLinksalot
The “great books” of history comprise the entire curriculum of Thomas Aquinas College

Thomas himself would have spent some serious time on the street finding out what the world is about before inhaling the 'great books'. Save TAC for your retirement years.

57 posted on 07/10/2007 1:44:24 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: SirLinksalot

I would have liked to have seen my alma mater, Washington & Lee University, to have made the list.

It’s not a Christian school, though, so I suppose that all but rules it out on this list.


58 posted on 07/10/2007 1:53:01 PM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: netmilsmom

LOL! You’re thinking about college and your eldest is 8 or so? Boy, you do think ahead!


59 posted on 07/10/2007 2:01:00 PM PDT by soccermom
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To: SirLinksalot

I thought I heard he was valedictorian, which is positively amazing when you think about it.


60 posted on 07/10/2007 2:04:17 PM PDT by soccermom
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