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I went to Oberlin for a year and I can tell you that you basically hit the nail on the head...


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Actually, you and he missed the nail's head by a friggin mile. Berkeley is a diverse campus and college community, in which there are just as many conservative leaning students as there are liberals. You take from it what you want.

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Well finally someone hit the nail on the head. Even a school with a reputation like Berkley has a pretty even mix of conservative and liberal students (from my limited experience of visiting a friend there for a few weeks), it's just that some of the liberal students are more outspoken and sponsor more activist groups. I know that that's the case at my school for sure, and I also know as many friends who have flipped from conservative to liberal and vice versa as those who have stayed the path of their ideology. A certain college or a certain professor won't necessarily "turn" a student one way or the other, it's the person themselves usually.