[NYer]

The rest of the picture is equally bleak ..

FROM HARVARD'S REPORT

Politics and Religion

Though his national polling numbers are stagnant, President Barack Obama can count on at least one group’s support: Harvard’s Class of 2019. Compared to last year’s class, this year’s batch of freshmen holds a much more favorable view of the president; year to year, the favorability rating among surveyed freshmen jumped from 58 percent to 69 percent. Here’s how the class breaks down politically and religiously:

• Almost two thirds of surveyed freshmen identified as somewhat or very liberal; only 12 percent of the class said they were at least somewhat conservative.
• About 28 percent of respondents who attended a private parochial school prior to attending Harvard identified as either somewhat or very conservative. Eleven percent of respondents who attended public non-charter and 11 percent of respondents who attended private non-denominational identified as such.
• After the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruled in favor of establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage this June, 86 percent of freshmen support same-sex marriage, up from 83 percent in last year’s survey. Six percent of respondents oppose same-sex marriage. Respondents from the Northeast were the most likely to support same-sex marriage.
• Roughly 55 percent of respondents supported the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature and controversial healthcare law.
• One half of respondents are in favor of legalizing marijuana, while 43 percent are in favor of a nationwide $15 minimum wage.
• When asked whether they believed Harvard should divest from fossil fuels, as some students have recently advocated, 37 percent of respondents said “yes” and 18 percent said “no,” but 45 percent were unsure.
• About 21 percent of the class is agnostic, while 17 percent are atheists. Atheists were most likely to describe themselves as very liberal, while Catholics were most likely to describe themselves as very conservative.
• Roughly 17 percent of respondents identified as Catholic, 17 percent as Protestant, 10 percent as Jewish, 3 percent as Hindu, 3 percent as Muslim, and half a percent as Mormon. Twelve percent of respondents chose “other.”
• Forty-one percent of surveyed freshmen said they are “not confident at all” that the police treat white people and black people equally. About 37 percent were “not so confident,” while only 3 percent reported feeling “very confident.”

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Catholic ping!

[Mastador1]

Poll: More atheists, agnostics entering Harvard than Christians

But then again there are more Christians entering the kingdom of Heaven than Atheists and Agnostics, I think it's important to know your priorities.

[Bob434]

yep because Christians are finally waking up to the fact that that school is a pig sty of liberalism these days

[FlingWingFlyer]

Probably looking for evidence that there is no God and hoping that they can find such evidence.

[AdaGray]

This is a surprise?

[Original Lurker]

Boston Massachusetts = Sodom by the sea.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

What’s your definition of “Christian”?

Pelosi is a Catholic, and our White Hut resident considers himself “Christian”.

The real definition of a follower of Christ is very narrow & conservative. In other words, according to the world, we’re bigots!

[BillT]

Harvard started as a Christian school, stopped being one
a long time ago!.

[PoloSec]

I would not be surprised if soon the Bible would be banned from the Harvard libraries, that is if it has not been done so already.

[escapefromboston]

I wonder how many Atheists and agnostics are actually jews ethnically.

[Varda]

Harvard and the Ivys in general discriminate against white male Christians in admissions or did in the years I studied their student populations. Sounds like this is still going on.

I studied admissions before spending on college applications. It was pretty clear that Harvard's student populations after 1995 were skewed towards Jews (beyond what pure merit should show), minorities and women. To compare and contrast Cal Tech (drawing from the same population of upper 3% SAT scorers) had a higher percentage of possible white male Christians.

This is a private school, as far as I'm concerned they can admit who they want. However, they definitely violate their admissions statements. Parents with white male Christian children are sending them hundreds of thousands of dollars in admissions fees without much chance of being admitted.

For me and my kid, I declined to donate.

[SaraJohnson]

This is a surprise!

They select people based on questionnaires and social/political essays. At to that sex and race and nation of origin preferences... Americans not welcome. Corporations are doing this in the job market as well.

[Amagi]

Front waders and wading boots are a requirement to tread that campus these days.
Sadly, it's not the only academic cesspool.