<p>Does anyone know any colleges or cities that are very welcoming to gay women. Any suggestions will help me start my search
- Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts! The most accepting and welcoming campus/town combination I have ever seen.</p>
<p>I’ve tried researching this a lot, and what I found is that really most good colleges are gay friendly, really you should be thinking which ones aren’t gay friendly, and instead just take those off your list.</p>
<p>Do you have any other criteria? What are your stats like?</p>
<p>I am still developing my critera. I would like to go to a very diverse school with lots of research opprotunity and good programs in psychology and Spanish (I also plan to go to med school). I have a 28 act score and 5.0 unweighted gpa. I have taken pre-ib and ib classes my entire high school career. I am a junior and I have just been ducted into the national honor society and I have played hs basketball for 3 years. I would like to go to a college or a city that has lots of things to see and do; some place fun.</p>
<p>Try this one: [Pitzer</a> College | A Los Angeles-Area Liberal Arts College](<a href=“http://www.pitzer.edu/]Pitzer”>http://www.pitzer.edu/)</p>
<p>Cornell University and Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Ithaca is an extremely gay-friendly town, and has a positive reputation for having a very large and accepting gay community.</p>
<p>NYC is friendly to both gay males and gay females. A candidate likely to be the city’s next mayor is a married lesbian. And from what I can tell in my public high school, the atmosphere seems very lax about the topic.</p>
<p>Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. Chapel Hill has an openly gay mayor, and the neighboring town of Carrboro has had an openly gay mayor in the past.</p>
<p>How much can your family afford?</p>
<p>Look at Vassar, Wesleyan, Skidmore, colleges in major cities like NYU, BU, GW and definitely Smith (and probably other all-female colleges as well)</p>
<p>In addition to the schools mentioned, maybe look at UMiami. I just checked and they have a psych major, and also I’ve heard that it’s one of the most gay friendly cities.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help guys! My family doe relyingsnt have anything saved up and we are low income
I am relying on need based aid and loans to pay for college</p>
<p>Just about any elite womens college (historically or current) would probably be strong bets. DC is extremely gay friendly, but it’s been my impression that that’s mostly with men.</p>
<p>Look at Sonoma State. It’s in Rhonert Park, CA, which is adjacent to Santa Rosa. While most cities in California are varying degrees of gay-friendly, Santa Rosa specifically has a strong lesbian community. In the SF gay scene, I usually end up drowning in gay boys … Santa Rosa, meanwhile, is full of friendly and diverse gay ladies. SSU is a CSU, it’s a solid school with good financial aid (although if you’re out-of-state that’s different). It could possibly be a good safety for you.</p>
<p>Oh, look at Pomona too, for a selective LAC. Near LA, has an awesome queer community, and fantastic financial aid. OsakaDad mentioned Pitzer, which along with Pomona is part of the Claremont Colleges, all of which I’ve heard are gay-friendly and great. All worth checking out.</p>
<p>Brown’s great and has a vibrant queer community for both men and women. I’d be happy to answer any of your questions about life here.</p>
<p>Let’s be a little more realistic here, people. The OP has a 28 ACT score which is pretty good but not likely to be Brown, Cornell, or Duke material. Smith’s a good suggestions, but really any of the former Seven Sisters schools will have large and active lesbian communities and the straight students will be very accepting. Wellesley may be a bit reachy with that ACT score but Smith, Mt. Holyoke, and Bryn Mawr are better bets. Among coed schools a place like Macalester comes to mind, but again it might be slightly reachy.</p>
<p>Pretty much any UC or Cal State school near a major city will do. In fact, any major university in a blue state will at the very least have on campus support for you including a BGLAT club.</p>
<p>We are not part of the BGLAT community, however we are mixed race and multicultural so we were on the lookout at every university that we toured for diversity. I can say with confidence that every California school we toured had what you wanted. We saw an entire separate office at UC San Diego dedicated to the BGLAT campus community. Pretty much the same at UCLA and other schools. The reason why I mentioned Pitzer was that we were on the Calremont consortium campuses to tour Harvey Mudd for engineering. We weren’t even there for Pitzer at all, however we noticed they really were upfront about support for the BGLAT community as we passed by their campus. After seeing the OP’s stats it was a clear match. Of all the Claremont colleges, Pitzer has the most relaxed entrance standards including being test optional.</p>
<p>If we noticed the outreach even though we were not specifically looking for it, then it is real.</p>
<p>It seems from other posts the OP is from Chicago. Needing FA the UCs would likely be too expensive.</p>
<p>also Fordham (look at the school’s Lincoln Center campus)</p>
<p>Check out American University and George Washington University in D.C. :)</p>