Liberal high school seniors should reconsider red state colleges
Liberal high school seniors are ruling out colleges based on state politics. However, seniors should think twice before shunning red states schools, Leelila Strogov wrote in The Hill March 24.
“In my work coaching college applicants, I have noticed an increased likelihood that applicants in states that vote Democratic in elections won’t apply to universities in states that vote Republican,” according to Strogov.
Research backs up her observations. One in four high school seniors ruled out possible colleges because of “politics, policies, or legal situations in the states where the colleges were located,” according to a survey of 1,865 high school seniors that came out this month, by a higher ed consulting firm called the Art & Science group.
Strogov, however, noted that while top conservative students still tend to apply to elite blue state campuses, the reverse is less true.