Computer Science schools for LGBTQ female

Hi! Just wanted to jump on here because my D23 is a CS girl in current college search mode and I it sounds like our daughters have some similarities, so I figured I’d share some of her choices. Inclusivity is important to my D (her older sister, my D17 mentioned below, is LGBTQ) so she has taken that into account in her search. D23 is also non-neurotypical, so that has been factored in as well!

Several people have already mentioned WPI, Pitt, and RIT and my D23 is applying to all three of those schools. For tech schools, both WPI and RIT have a very collaborative reputation. WPI even has an extra scholarship fund available to girls who have been active in fighting sexism in STEM (my D wrote about her efforts in her “why WPI” essay, :crossed_fingers: she gets some of it!)

Additionally, my older D17 had a great experience at Hamilton (she graduated in '21 with a double major in math & geoscience but had several friends who were CS majors) and her runner up college was Smith - so I would also put in a word for both of those schools which have been mentioned up-thread.

Hey, here’s hoping that between girls like ours and @chrisntine 's the CS world will start changing for the better! :grin: :+1:

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Thank you for the suggestions! Glad to hear good things about WPI and Pitt and Smith! I’m not at all familiar with Hamilton, but I will go look into it.

Good luck to your daughter on her college search and on the scholarship essay! That’s good to know about the WPI fund.

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I came here to say Smith, but was just scrolling to see what others recommended first. Smith alum here, not in CS, but I knew plenty of CS majors and they are great.

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