Posted on 07/27/2007 8:43:18 AM PDT by 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
You have experience with Bryn Mawr up close and personal? Just curious. I’m a Haverford alum and had a lot of friends who went to Bryn Mawr.
If people just wanted to be quietly lesbian, I figured it was their own business. But the Bryn Mawr lesbians tried to intimidate the rest of the students. Basicially, every straight woman on campus would get a lesbian proposal at some point. The lesbians pretty much ran the college newspaper and said only lesbians could be true feminists.
If I have a daughter, she won’t be going there.
I assume however that it has first class women's softball and women's golf teams... ;)
I went to Villanova. Bryn Mawr “girls” used to terrify the the ‘Nova guys. Every year a few gullible Freshmen would head over to the school looking for their dream of a college full of women.
They would come back cowering and torn to shreds from the Bryn Mawr womyn. It was sort of a standing joke on campus.
Well.....I went and did some research on the Santa Fe one.....that’s the one I am going to point her toward.....but, if anyone here has any comments about St. Johns I’d sure like to hear it. She is a very bright young woman and I want her to head in the right direction early.
New College of Florida is owned by the state university system but treated as a private school. The tuition is something like three times the tuition at other state universities. Noting the extremely liberal student body, the Florida Times-Union questioned “why does it cost three times as much to educate a liberal as it costs to educate everyone else?”
The Brothers of the Holy Cross keep trying to change that though. However the students, their parents and the Bishop haven't let them....I love Notre Dame.
I only heard of Smith, Weslyan (sp?) and St. John’s in Annapolis. I went to see about their graduate program because it was close to my home. I went in for a look and talked with this older women (head of admissions) who was DEFINITELY an old flower child. She was talking with that “artsy fartsy” talk...can’t explain it exactly. Well anyway it was actually frightening and I could not wait to get out of there. lol. BTW, went and graduated from George Washington University instead.
my oldest is heading for the U of Dallas this fall. thanks for linking me, whyisa!
The women's colleges have a particular problem - as they become more lesbian, it becomes harder and harder to attract straight women because of the pressure to at least try lesbian sex. A friend who is an adjunct faculty member at one of the "Seven Sisters" in the top 5 on the list described the phenomenon of "LUGs" or Lesbians Until Graduation - women who succumb to the pressure to be at least occasionally lesbian at these schools, and, then, after graduation, resume a normal heterosexual lifestyle.
One of my daughters was heavily recruited by another of the "Seven Sisters" in the top 5 on the list by alumae who candidly admitted there was a problem, but told her she was exactly the sort of normal (read straight) woman the school needed. She did an overnight in which she had two passes made at her by girls she was visiting, and promptly removed the school from consideration.
Most of the other schools on the list have long had reputations for being friendly to all sorts of alternative lifestyles. Lawrence is a bit of a surprise, it's a very small school in Wisconsin. I think it's on the list for the same reason Oberlin is: the outstanding music conservatories attract unusually large numbers of artistic types who are often socially inept oddballs, and often homosexual.
I have friends who went to the Annapolis St. Johns, and the son of another friend is now at the New Mexico St. Johns - these are the Great Books program schools that even teach mathematics and the sciences through the originals (in translation) rather than through modern texts. Again, tends to attract a rather unusual group of students.
St. Johns is not the place to study classics - to do that you want instruction in Greek and advanced Latin (presumably anyone who wants to study classics already has several years of Latin). Those kinds of courses are mostly found in major universities, which can afford the specialists.
Bob Jones U didn’t make the list of “Least gay-friendly”? I bet they’ll be pissed!
My friend turns to his daughter and says, “Are you really sure you want to go here”
(She graduated in three years & is still heterosexual, but the message didn’t seem to bother the administration.)
Yikes, that was Wesleyan University - also on the list, just a bit further down.
Well, this is good to know; now I’ll now what colleges to avoid in looking for one for our #3 son! Perusing the list, he hadn’t mentioned any interest in any of them anyway, so that’s good. Not surprised to see Smith College in the top 20, but was surprised to not see it in the top 5. Northhampton MA, where the college is located, boasts of being 40% lesbian! But then, many folks consider most of the girls of Smith College to be LUGS, Lesbians until graduation. ;o)
That would probably be National Review's list of the top 50 colleges.
I can’t believe Washington University isn’t on that list.
One of my nephews graduated from Hampden-Sydney. He liked the school a LOT!
Heh, kind of like stores in Key West FL who fly the rainbow flag proudly!
villanova has changed since i went to school many years ago. the school has had it’s share of bad news. i often wonder if the school is looking for that ideal student who would look good as an applicant, but lousy as an alum.
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