<p>Does anyone know of colleges in Pennsylvania that is gay-friendly or has a large gay population? If you are gay, can you describe what your experience has been like at your college.</p>
<p>Philly has a strong gay population....I'm guessing that there are few opportunities there, with all the schools represented there.</p>
<p>Muhlenberg is a small campus but very gay-friendly--a lot of kids in the theater arts but good programs in pre-med and business as well</p>
<p>Sort of an oxymoron... but I'm sure there are a few gay-friendly schools around here. I'm really not sure which ones they are. Definitely not the small Penn State campuses, don't know about University Park... it has a very large population so I assume there is a club or two but don't know about the general population.</p>
<p>I applied to a lot of big state schools thinking there had to be decent-sized gay populations with 30,000 undergrad. Kinda a hit or miss, though. I would pick a school with easy access to downtown Philadelphia. That way even if you get tired of the scene at your school, there will always be a few people who know their way around Philly and would take you out. You can e-mail representatives of the LGBT groups and ask them about campus life, too.</p>
<p>UPenn has an amazing Gay community. Temple I think is good, too.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon - the amazing yet geeky type ;)</p>
<p>Come to San Francisco</p>
<p>^ yep SF... although i couldnt reaaally say since i've never lived anywhere else</p>
<p>there is a ranked list of gay friendly uni's on the internet, and i remember UPenn being near, if not at, the top of the list . and you can't really go wrong with big schools in liberal cities.</p>
<p>Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. I don't really know if I can get into UPenn being that it's an ivy and all. Temple I could easily get into, but I've heard mixed reviews about the overall educational quality of the school...yeah that would be amazing to go to SanFran but way too much $$ to fly home.</p>
<p>Hey! I'm a (gay) student at Carnegie Mellon. We have a relatively large gay population here- unfortunately for me, many more gay males than females. The campus as a whole does not have a problem with queers. We have two on-campus GLBT groups- Allies which focuses more on political action, and cmuOUT which focuses more on socializing. We also have a GLBT resource center where people hang out and watch gay movies and TV shows and such. The GLBT groups as well as just students on campus in general make frequent trips to a gay club in the area. We're also around a mile from the Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Community Center, if you're interested in getting involved in GLBT things off campus.</p>
<p>So, I think that pretty well covers it...feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I definitely would highly recommend that you consider CMU, it's been great for me!</p>
<p>There you go, i told you a gay population at Carnegie Mellon would exist.</p>
<p>well if you're female, Bryn Mawr would probably work :-D</p>
<p>otherwise...I'm not sure if at Swarthmore or Haverford there's a big LGBT population but they're probably pretty accepting</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon and Penn State are big so there's probably a sizable gay population there. Same with the University of Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>Allegheny (has a minor in LGBT studies)
Bryn Mawr
Dickinson<br>
Haverford
Muhlenberg
Penn State, Temple, and U. Pitt should be big enough for everyone to find a niche
Swarthmore
Ursinus</p>
<p>Peindre, while Penn State and U of Pitt are both pretty big, CMU is average sized, with 5000 or so undergrads.</p>
<p>well my high school is at the biggest 1000 kids, so 5000 seems big in general, especially for a private school. my perspective is a bit skewed, sorry :-D</p>
<p>Pitt has a pretty active GLBTA group, and there are a lot of activities/groups around the city.</p>
<p>Juniata, in Huntingdon.</p>
<p>I second Haverford.</p>
<p>University of Alabama. Gooo Roll Tide!</p>
<p>Huge gay community</p>