Here ye, here ye – the results for “Most Politically Active College” are in – but who made the cut?
The Princeton Review, the college standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company, recently released the results from its voluntary 80-question survey about college life and academics in which one of the questions asked students “How popular are political and activist organizations on campus?”
According to Rob Franek, the lead author of The Princeton Review’s “The Best 378 Colleges: 2014 Edition”, the results weren’t as surprising as you may think.
“There are the usual suspects,” Franek told Red Alert Politics, speaking specifically about the number of D.C.-area schools that made the list.
Concerned that your school isn’t on the list but think it should be? Keep in mind that the survey is completely voluntary and was not necessarily distributed among or promoted at every school across the country.
“In any of these rankings lists, it’s based only on student opinions of their own experiences at their own universities,” Franek said.
Read the list of the Top 20 Most Politically Active Students below to see if your student body campaigned hard enough and filled out enough Princeton Review surveys to make the cut.
1. George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
2. New College of Florida
Sarasota, Fla.
3. Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
4. American University
Washington, D.C.
5. Amherst College
Amherst, Mass.
6. United States Military Academy
West Point, N.Y.
7. Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa
8. New York University
New York, N.Y.
9. University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
10. Warren Wilson College
Asheville, N.C.
11. University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Calif.
12. University of Maryland
College Park, Md.
13. Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
14. Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pa.
15. United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Md.
16. Macalester College
St. Paul, Minn.
17. Trinity College
Hartford, Conn.
18. Seton Hall University
South Orange, N.J.
19. Prescott College
Prescott, Ariz.
20. Marlboro College
Marlboro, Vt.
Not every college campus is obsessed with politics, however, and so The Princeton Review also compiled a list of colleges that might be asking “Election? What Election?” on the First Tuesday in November. The Top 5 politically inactive schools, according to the survey, are: Becker College in Worcester, Mass.; University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla.; Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio; University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa.; and Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pa.