On: University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT

[rayiner]

> I'm a bit baffled; when did attending church become unusual in America?

It’s not. Even in Manhattan 45% of people attend religious services “frequently” or “regularly.”

[barry-cotter → rayiner]

It’s very unusual among the kind of people who staff the admissions departments of selective colleges though.

[gowld → barry-cotter]

Harvard, The most elite school in USA, has a church in the center of campus, an official preacher, and a whole Divinity School.

[barry-cotter → gowld]

https://harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/faculty-faith.html

37% of professors at elite universities are atheist or agnostic. Saying Harvard is friendly to the religious because it has a divinity school is like saying Stanford is a hotbed of the rightwing because of the Hoover Institution, except that you would expect a lot of atheists and agnostics at Harvard’s divinity school and no Marxists at Hoover.

[lowdose → barry-cotter]

Could both the Hoover institution and the divinity school be a signal that there are no communists on campus?

I sometimes wonder if the US is less secular than Europe because atheists were for a long time associated with communists. Church going people obviously couldn't be communists.