Columbia: Safest ivy for gay life.

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Using the very unscientific tool of the facebook, I have researched the ivies for the best gay life. Basically for each ivy I did a search for men interested in men and women in women. </p>

<p>Here are the results (keep in mind some schools are smaller than others)</p>

<p>MEN interested in MEN:</p>

<p>1-Harvard (211)
2-Columbia (137)
3-Yale (128)
4-Brown (111)
5-University of Pennsylvania (106)
6-Cornell (93)
7-Dartmouth (74)
8-Princeton (31)</p>

<p>NORMALIZED BY CLASS SIZE:</p>

<p>1-Columbia
2-Harvard
3-Yale
4-Brown
5-Dartmouth
6-University of Pennsylvania
7-Cornell
8-Princeton</p>

<p>WOMEN interested in WOMEN:</p>

<p>1-University of Pennsylvania (37)
2-Cornell (31)
3-Columbia (27)
4-Harvard (25)
5-Yale (22)
6-Dartmouth (11)
7-Brown (9)
8-Princeton (5)</p>

<p>NORMALIZED BY CLASS SIZE:</p>

<p>1-Columbia
2-Yale
3-Harvard
4-University of Pennsylvania
5-Dartmouth
6-Cornell
7-Brown
8-Princeton</p>

<p>COMBINED (an indicator of culture):</p>

<p>1-Harvard (236)
2-Columbia (164)
3-Yale (150)
4-Penn (143)
5-Cornell (124)
6-Brown (120)
7-Dartmouth (85)
8-Princeton (36)</p>

<p>NORMALIZED BY CLASS SIZE:</p>

<p>1-Columbia
2-Harvard
3-Yale
4-Dartmouth
5-Brown
6-University of Pennsylvania
7-Cornell
8-Princeton</p>

<p>CONCLUSIONS:</p>

<p>Though this study is not scientific by any means, its results are remarkably persuasive. If you are gay and looking for a large community, look into Columbia, Harvard or Yale--The Winners. Dartmouth, Brown, and Penn are in the middle. Cornell and especially Princeton are to be avoided.</p>

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<p>What dido you mean by an indicator of culture?</p>

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<p>I meant that the total combined, normalized by class size and ranked indicates the culture of the school in terms of gay life--higher on the list implies a higher overall population and perhaps a more accepting student body.</p>

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<p>you're not controlling for multicausality. go do some more regressions.</p>

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<p>And you don't consider that Harvard created facebook. Thus by mere virtue of that more people, gays among them, will post from Harvard. Normalizing by class size wont fix that.</p>