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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2193231, member: 591"]
As you say, college is a place to meet and learn from people who see things differently (as well as the same).  Unfortunately, I fear that, over the years, young folks have been to some degree conditioned to feel comfortable in their relatively homogeneous group and so look for a college that will reinforce whatever that comfort group be - from ultra liberal to ultra conservative.

Interestingly, I was in a fairly homogeneous high school group - I differed from almost all the classmates I was friends with only by religious affiliation and having less well-to-do parents, otherwise all were bright, college bound, a bit superior, serious, non-athlete . . . well, you get the drift, and in general, thought the same way about most things.  Then they went to a bunch of private schools that my parents couldn't afford and I went to Rutgers.  Lived in a dorm, then joined a frat that had members from the very smart to the never-graduated; from the (relatively) prim and proper to the druggie.  What an eye-opening experience college was!

Off my soap-box.  But yes, I do think diverse thinking matters.
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