As for Baylor, my wife went there and they are more 'strict,' but its still full of crazy Baptists! Anyways, enjoy your Freshman year while it lasts!
Tell your Oregon friends that the are IGNORANT.
The word "Christian" in TCU comes from the DENOMINATION ["The Christian Church/Disciples of Christ" which trades as the Disciples of Christ (The Christian Church) www.disciples.org/ ] (President Lyndon B Johnson was a member.) (or DOC)
TCU is not a university of or for 'Texas Christians' but is the Texas version (and largest) of many "Christian Church" colleges around the USA...Drake in Iowa, Lynchburg in Va., Transylvania in Kentucky, Barton (formerly Atlantic Christian College, former TCU Chancellor Bil Tucker's ug alma mater), Eureka College in Illinois (Pres. Ronald Reagan '32), Chapman College In CA (Jerry Lewis, MDA fundraiser & comedian extraordinaire is an adjunct faculty member there.) and others. http://www.helmdisciples.org/colleges/index.htm
Counter to what many Texans believe, Abilene "Christian" University is NOT a DOC school, but a
"Church of Christ" School (COC). The best known COC college (to those on the West Coast) is Pepperdine Univ in Malibu (and many kids (maybe your some of your peers) WANT to go there - largely because WHERE it is located (and I don't blame them!) If you inquired further, you'd find out that Pepperdine is MUCH MORE OVERTLY RELIGIOUS than TCU. Pepperdine is named after a LA auto parts distributor (big $ can get a university named for you...Rice, Vanderbilt) rather than for Jesus Christ. That fact doesn't may them less religious than TCU with "Christian" in the name.
Around the country virtually EVERY large school with let's say 4,000 or more enrollment is secular in approach. While some like Georgetown, Boston College, Notre Dame, Marquette and other Catholic schools are much more OVERTLY religious than TCU, there are only three that I'd say have a "Christian" or more fundamental religious orthodoxy within it's student ranks and belief system: BYU (Mormons), Liberty (Southern Baptist and fundamental Christian born againers) and Baylor (Sou. Baptist.)
Educate these fools, Please.
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