Gay Friendly Colleges Ranked - Reed towards top

Gay Rights Watch ^ | Bryan Harding

[SirLinksalot]

Gay Friendly Colleges Ranked - Reed towards top Top of the list is New College of Florida, which provides a campus community most accepting of gay students. It also ranks number one for the most politically active tertiary institution, but ranks worst for a near absence of intercollegiate sports.

The top five gay-friendly Colleges are in order: New College of Florida; Macalester College of St. Paul, Minnesota; Wellesley College in Massachusetts; Eugene Lang College/New School University in New York City; and Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

The top College ranked by Princeton Review for academic experience is Reed College in Portland, Oregon; which ranks 18th on the list for being gay-friendly.

The least gay-friendly Universities in America according to this study are Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; the University of Notre Dame; and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Here is the complete list of the Top 20 Gay Friendly Colleges compiled by the Princeton Review:

1.) New College of Florida

2.) Macalester College

3.) Wellesley College

4.) Eugene Lang College/New School University

5.) Mount Holyoke College

6.) St. John's College (MD)

7.) Bryn Mawr College

8.) Lawrence University

9.) Emerson College

10.) Harvey Mudd College

11.) St. John's College (NM)

12.) Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

13.) Wesleyan University

14.) Marlboro College

15.) Carleton College

16.) Smith College

17.) Haverford College

18.) Reed College

19.) Bard College

20.) Oberlin College

[counterpunch]

At first glance I thought this said gays rank Harry Reid tops.
But that really didn’t make sense to me, as I always figured he was a bottom.

[SirLinksalot]

LOL, your screen name matches your wit.

[JacksonCalhoun]

Did they run the “truther” Physics professor out of BYU?

[Clemenza]

Reed College, aka Weed College. Along with Evergreen State, two universities where the Summer of Love (really the Summer of People who Don’t Bathe), has been eternal. Is it any surprize that both are in the PacNorthwest?

[Clemenza]

You're a MAN who went to Vassar and admit to it? ;-)

Don't worry, I almost attended Sarah Lawrence, but my father put the kibbosh on that (despite the fact that I had a scholarship there).

[irish guard]

Huh.....Notre Dame is ranked as unfriendly....I’ll be darned.....GOOD!

[Clemenza]

Yes, and while there, they also met fellow student Chevy Chase, who was their original drummer.

[Clemenza]

I attended Fordham than U of Chicago for Grad School. Would recommend Chicago to anyone in a heartbeat.

[Clemenza]

I attended Fordham then U of Chicago for Grad School. Would recommend Chicago to anyone in a heartbeat.

[no dems]

How do they know? Did they walk through the men’s restrooms at every college in America and count the “glory holes”?

[CT]

John Reed, the school's namesake, was a communist and is buried a the Kremlin. He was also the figure played in the movie, 'Reds.'

Nice company to hang out with.

[Burkean]

I have a friend who is a professor now at BYU (in the religion department) and he says that guy hasn’t taught in over a year.

[SirLinksalot]

John Reed, the school's namesake, was a communist and is buried a the Kremlin. He was also the figure played in the movie, 'Reds.' Nice company to hang out with.

It's true that the school has the Reed namesake. But it wasn't named in honor of this commie.

According to Wikipedia :

" Reed is named for Oregon pioneers Simeon Gannett Reed and Amanda Reed.[1]. Simeon was an entrepreneur in trade on the Columbia River; in his will he suggested that his wife could "devote some portion of my estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the inhabitants....
Although it holds a reputation for the anti-authoritarian leanings of its students (and sometimes its faculty), the only connection between Reed College and the journalist John Reed is the similarity of their names and the fact that both were native to Portland. ".

[CatoRenasci]

I personally think that it would be worthwhile to get your undergrad degree in colleges like these that provide solid moral grounding as well as excellent education. After that, then you can go to graduate school in any of the bigger, more well known schools if you wish.

I don't entirely disagree. I went to the Virginia Military Institute and have several University of California graduate degrees, but that was a long time ago before VMI's reputation suffered from the unpopularity of the Vietnam War. One of my daughters went to a small but well-regarded academically, religiously-affiliated midwestern liberal arts college which has a higher academic ranking than Grove City. The other daughter is at a major private university in the Chicago area.

Our approach with our daughters was to avoid the very radical universities and liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, but to stick with best schools in either the Midwest or South. Both of them have been happy with their choices and the generally more conservative atmosphere of their schools, without the schools being considered "conservative colleges".

[CatoRenasci]

Daughter #2 is at Northwestern and loves the Chicago area - wants to do grad school at either NU or Chicago. Daughter #1 is now working in Minneapolis, and plans to go to business school in a few years, with NU and Chicago among her top choices.

[SirLinksalot]

See also here :

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/08/25/campus_gay_point_average/

Campus ‘gay point average’ : Book strives to tell students which schools are welcoming

The article says in part :

“Since 1992, the Princeton Review, has ranked the 20 schools that it considers the most and the least ``gay community accepted.” This year, the review ranked New York University as most gay friendly and Notre Dame as most inhospitable.

Steele points out that the Review’s gay-friendly rankings are based on student opinion, while his guide is based on quantifiable data.

Harriet Brand, spokeswoman for the Review, said the survey of 115,000 students is more compelling because students offer a more accurate, ground-level gauge of a campus’s climate.”

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I see our daughters schools aren’t mentioned.

Good!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I noticed that!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I knew you would.

[SirLinksalot]

Colleges to remove from my list-of-colleges-my-grandchildren-might-attend!

See here :

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/fashion/14guide.html?ex=1315886400&en=a93206466b570287&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

According to the New York Times, This is the book to consult as to which colleges are mot gay friendly ( might be available in your local library ) :

The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students” (Alyson Books) profiles 100 of the country’s “best campuses” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, and it arrives at a time when gay students are more vocal and visible.

“It’s looking more like half or most gay and lesbian Americans are coming out before they get to college,” said Bruce Steele, the guide’s editor in chief. “Unlike in the past, the experience they will have on a campus is something they can think about before they go to college.”