<p>Hello Everyone, I just got accepted into Santa Clara University and its a catholic school.
It is not my first choice but I may end up going here anyways. The problem is, I'm gay. I do not know if my presence will be welcomed here. Does anyone know the population of the gay community at this school? Does it even have a gay community?</p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance! I hate that you have to even worry about that at such an exciting time in your life, but San Francisco is nearby and the gay community is really prominent there…hth</p>
<p>SCU has 3 or 4 gay-alliance groups on campus. They seem active but not a huge presence on campus.</p>
<p>GLBT issues are well integrated into the curriculum, many classes are offered that focus on the issue directly (ie: English literature courses on Gay and Lesbian Literature) or a fundamental aspect integrated into the coursework as part of either social justice component or diversity component. </p>
<p>The school is Catholic–but it is <em>Jesuit</em>. The Jesuits are like the liberal branch of the Catholic spectrum.</p>
<p>As for a very “in your face/activist” gay community at SCU–not really as far as I can see. SCU students are a bit more laid back in general. SCU is extremely friendly and cheerful and welcoming and my take has been that sexual orientation isn’t really a big issue. It is California and it just isn’t that big of a deal here.</p>
<p>Will you be welcomed? Absolutely. Like I said above, the students at SCU are for the most part fairly liberal and this won’t even phase them. Are their clubs? Definitely, yes.</p>
<p>mmm.okay, thank you all. My fears have been subsided a nit. Now I move on to the money issue. I will see who gives me a better financial aid package. Thank you all so much:D</p>
<p>Edgar
did u look into University of SF?</p>
<p>Are you planning on going there? I’m gay and going there so at least you know theres two of us haha and I’m positive there’ll b more and I agree with the above comments from what I’ve read</p>
<p>Bump for interest!</p>