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None of these schools have been connected with their founding religious groups in a very long time. They are almost all among the schools known for being very left-wing as well.

The women's colleges have a particular problem - as they become more lesbian, it becomes harder and harder to attract straight women because of the pressure to at least try lesbian sex. A friend who is an adjunct faculty member at one of the "Seven Sisters" in the top 5 on the list described the phenomenon of "LUGs" or Lesbians Until Graduation - women who succumb to the pressure to be at least occasionally lesbian at these schools, and, then, after graduation, resume a normal heterosexual lifestyle.

One of my daughters was heavily recruited by another of the "Seven Sisters" in the top 5 on the list by alumae who candidly admitted there was a problem, but told her she was exactly the sort of normal (read straight) woman the school needed. She did an overnight in which she had two passes made at her by girls she was visiting, and promptly removed the school from consideration.

Most of the other schools on the list have long had reputations for being friendly to all sorts of alternative lifestyles. Lawrence is a bit of a surprise, it's a very small school in Wisconsin. I think it's on the list for the same reason Oberlin is: the outstanding music conservatories attract unusually large numbers of artistic types who are often socially inept oddballs, and often homosexual.

I have friends who went to the Annapolis St. Johns, and the son of another friend is now at the New Mexico St. Johns - these are the Great Books program schools that even teach mathematics and the sciences through the originals (in translation) rather than through modern texts. Again, tends to attract a rather unusual group of students.

St. Johns is not the place to study classics - to do that you want instruction in Greek and advanced Latin (presumably anyone who wants to study classics already has several years of Latin). Those kinds of courses are mostly found in major universities, which can afford the specialists.

I am just about ready to send off my application to St John’s College in MD. I want to go to the graduate school. I don’t really care if it is a liberal or gay-friendly school. I work in a world famous art museum where about 1 in 5 employees are gay, so I am used to it.

Too bad Thomas Aquinas College does not have a grad school.

I might send an application to Kings College, London.

Thank you for the info. Actually, a 16 y/o in public school today (like my niece) probably really does NOT know what “classics” means....to them, it’s an introduction to dead white man’s writing....something no longer taught in the public schools.