My son is on the wait lists of four New England and NY universities, including Yale. If any of them changes its decision, I imagine he'll drop UVA for the more prestigious school. The odds of that? Slim.
I've warned him many times that universities are liberal indoctrination camps. Consequently, he's been forewarned and they may struggle to change him. Today, I'd say he's a political moderate. He knows that his friends are all liberal extremists, and he considers me to be a conservative extremist. I'd say he's right on all counts.
You may be interested to know that William & Mary views itself as quite liberal. The question came up during our tour in April and that's what they said. So it might not be all that different from the Ivys. That said, at least one student at W&M addressed the point, saying that she knew both liberal and conservative students and felt that both were well tolerated by the faculty. THAT might be different at an Ivy.
My friend David Collum, chair of the Chemistry department at Cornell, has been in the news this week, by the way. He was targeted by liberals after he wrote a memo to Cornell staff strongly recommending that they oppose student demands for unionization. (It's the same fight that's taking place at Yale, the one that precipitated the hunger strike discussed previously in this thread.) Yes, you read that right. The STUDENTS are trying to unionize.
So, Collum wrote a memo and was then accused by the students of sexism and breaching some sort of an agreement that the school has with its students. They're retaliating, pure and simple, and employing character assassination tactics. It's the usual dirty liberal behavior.
http://cornellsun.com/2017/03/23/professor-publishes-anti-union-email-days-before-election/
On the forum Collum and I use, he said yesterday that Cornell supported and defended him:
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