Posted on 03/25/2014 6:35:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even though those looking for trouble can and will find it anywhere, Baylor is one of the only places outside of a church where I have encountered positive pier pressure (pressure to do the RIGHT thing)
It is my belief that the years between 18 and 25 are the most important to determining your character as an adult. Send them to a ivy league liberal arts college or a “party school” and when they get out (if they even graduate).. you wont even recognize them or what they have become.
Plus, the chance of meeting your future spouse in college is relatively high, and Baylor is overflowing with top notch potential husband and wives from good conservative Christian families.
Some fine schools. Worth the incredible tuition and fees? Questionable.
Concordia is a joke. Our family member’s currently earning a MS at CUI. Not much of a Christian or Conservative institution. Lots of partying on and off campus. A number of students being either expelled or arrested for criminal behavior. Not to mention the lack of solid biblical and conservative teaching.
>> I can’t believe Baylor is not on that list. It’s by far one of the best conservative colleges in the nation. <<
Maybe the school is not approved by many conservatives, due to the fact that its President — Ken Whatshisname — did such a poor job of investigating the suspicious death of Vince Foster!
RE: I would have put The Citadel on the list - at least when I was there.
Which makes me wonder why the US Naval Academy and US Military academy aren’t on the list...
RE: Some fine schools. Worth the incredible tuition and fees?
SEE HERE:
http://www.gcc.edu/futurestudents/financialaid/Pages/Cost%20of%20Attendance.aspx
Grove City College ( #2 on the list ),
Tuition: $15,550
Room & Board: $8,472
Books & Supplies: $1,000
Miscellaneous: $350
Transportation: $500
TOTAL: $25,872
And oh yeah, every student gets a laptop computer which is theirs to take home after they graduate.
They don’t teach fluff courses. They don’t accept any Federal money.
Grove City College is ranked 17th in the nation for career services by the Princeton Review for its “dynamic and active efforts to help students get started on future career paths.”
In 2013, Ninety-six percent of the most recent graduating class is employed or in a graduate or professional school within 6 months of graduation, according to the college’s Career Services Office. That figure matches the numbers for the class of 2012 six months after they graduated.
I love it more every time I visit there. Thanks for the encouragement. :)
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ha! my top three i mentioned on another thread yesterday are the top three listed here... as far as i am concerned, the top three here are the Ivy League :)
Here's a fact that jumped out to me re. #1 - Hillsdale College:
It was first college in America to officially prohibit any discrimination based on race, religion, or gender. Hillsdale College does not accept federal or state subsidies.
Conservative = non-discrimination. One of those things that makes you say, "Hmmm. "
“It is my belief that the years between 18 and 25 are the most important to determining your character as an adult.”
I disagree. I think character is formed at a much younger age.
“Send them to a ivy league liberal arts college or a ‘party school’ and when they get out (if they even graduate).. you wont even recognize them or what they have become.”
Again, I disagree. My son is nearing the halfway point through an Ivy League and is probably more conservative than the day he left home. By the way, the graduation rate at the Ivy League schools is somewhere in the high 90s%.
Like I said, character is formed by the time they leave high school.
There are some decent schools on this list (and I agree that Baylor should be on it, and might well be the star of the list if it were on it), but this list has more than one lacuna.
As well, this list is a tacit admission that we have ceded the heights of our culture to the barbarians, at least in the field of education, and further, we have no hope of recapturing those lost territories.
The first point is undeniably true - we HAVE ceded the heights of our culture to the barbarians. I'm unwilling to concede on the second point.
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But, for the vast majority of parents who basically leave this basic responsibility up to the schools... the result of sending your child to a school that tilts WAY left will be devastating to conservative parents.
And even at that school they encounter on a daily basis environmental indoctrination that I must counter at home.
And that's at a extremely conservative school, I can't imagine what they are teaching at the public schools.
And if a parent is not paying attention the school will be the one who imprints it's values on your child.
Then we should encourage solving these problems where they begin - at a very young age.
Trying to fix the problem by applying the band-aid of sending our children off to colleges and universities that don't offend our sensibilities seems to me to just prolong their adolescence, and does nothing to wage the battle to establish beachheads in our elite institutions, with the long-term goal of re-taking them.
Of course, you pinged the homeschool list, and we were homeschoolers through grade school. It was the single best educational, social, psychological, moral, and spiritual decision we made for our sons.
And most important of all for parents is, pray constantly. A lot. Because it's God Who really does it.
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You sound like you are a great parent :)
Good luck, I am sure your kids will do well wherever they go because of the time you took to teach them yourself.
Thanks. It’s been a blast, so far.
My homeschooled son graduated from Hampden Sydney.
From what I read, Hampden Sydney sounds like a very good college to attend.
It is a very good school. My son loved it there.
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