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Oh, I definitely think top students are disproportionately liberal. But I think there might also be anti-conservative (or more accurately anti-Red Tribe) discrimination going on; according to Espenshade and Radford (or at least some description of their work I read somewhere) a lower-class white student is much less likely to be admitted to any given college than an upper-class white student with the same academic qualifications, and Red Tribe extracurriculars like 4-H club and ROTC decrease your admissions chances.
I’d guess that top Red Tribe students are more spread out and a lot are at their state universities.
We’ve read the same study summary, and it matches the partyism data nicely. But partyism would still predict one school that is deliberately conservative having the opposite bias and harvesting all the good conservatives. Why doesn’t this school exist?
Well, the last top 10 university was founded in 1891. The current political landscape is much more recent than that.
Actually, if I were a conservative (non-EA) billionaire I would totally found a university.