Harvard: In the Winners Circle for Gay Life

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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. (Just look at the dailyprincetonian and search for "gay life," or "homosexuality," and these results shouldn't be surprising.)</p>

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<p>hmmm
while it is unscientific, i think your results are relatively accurate... thanks for the info! I would have assumed that about Harvard and Columbia, but not Yale...</p>

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I would have assumed that about Harvard and Columbia, but not Yale...

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<p>WHAT?! LOL</p>

<p>I've heard Yale described as the "gay" Ivy :) Yale's got plenty of artsy-fartsy, outgoing, generally open-minded students... a recepie for a strong gay community!</p>

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<p>I expanded my data a little further. I looked at some more schools similar to the ivies and some very dissimilar. These were the results:</p>

<p>In parentheses is what I call the "Gay index"</p>

<p>Tier One: Excellent</p>

<p>1-Columbia (39.852)
2-Harvard (35.96)</p>

<p>Tier Two: Very Good</p>

<p>3-Yale (28.50)
4-Vassar (27.18)
5-Oberlin (26.36)</p>

<p>Tier Three: Good</p>

<p>6-Stanford (23.07)
7-Wesleyan (22.14)
8-NYU (21.74)
9-Dartmouth (21.3)
10-Brown (20.8)
11-Swarthmore (19.19)</p>

<p>Tier Four: Pretty Good</p>

<p>12-Georgetown (15.12)
13-Penn (14.7)
14-MIT (12.1)
15-Berkeley (10.53)</p>

<p>Tier Five: Needs work</p>

<p>16-Duke (9.5)
17-Amherst (9.16)
18-Cornell (9.1)
19-Williams (8.84)
20-Michigan (8.75)
21-Princeton (7.70)</p>

<p>Tier Six: Poor</p>

<p>22-WPI (4.99)
23-BC (openly discriminates against homosexuals) (4.53)
24-University of Oklahoma (3.88)</p>

<p>Tier Seven: Extremely Poor</p>

<p>25-Texas A&M (2.30)
26-Kansas State (2.20)</p>

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<p>I honestly thought Yale would have a higher percentage than Harvard... woah.</p>

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<p>The Index in parenthesis is NOT the percentage of gays lol, it's this weird ratio I came up with while working out my data.</p>

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<p>The OP doesn't take into account that Harvard is the Home of the Facebook, the way New Haven is Home of the Hamburger.</p>

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<p>I take into account the class size and the number of people who have facebook from each school in coming up with my ratio, so yes, that should be taken care of.</p>

<p>But to me, Columbia and Harvard make sense: New York City and Boston are two of the most liberal cities in the United States, of course the culture there would be favorable to gays (which is good!)</p>

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<p>This is an excellent post. </p>

<p>Any sort of discrimination against a person based on preferences (even sexual preferences) constitutes blatant mockery of the Constitution. Discrimination against homosexuals is abosolutely unconstitutional and absolutely malevolent. I am niether Republican nor Democrat. I am a staunch and unremmitting advocate of intellectual as well as preferential liberalism. </p>

<p>It is absolutely terrible that people are discriminated agianst based on sexual preference. I personally am not gay, but I see no reason to denigrate the preferences a person who is gay.</p>

<p>I hope one day to see the success of a civil rights advocate similar in character to MLK who can point out this discrimination and hopefully bring about a change of attitudes towards gays.</p>

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<p>I'm gay, and I can tell you... that ain't happening in this country any time soon.</p>

<p>But I was unaware of Yale's reputation among the gay community. It has made me rethink my prior decision not to apply there... New Haven's still really boring tho.</p>

<p>Harvard will always be my #1 :)</p>

<p>Ulysses, if you could, please elaborate on what "normalised by class" means, and exactly how you took other factors into account to come up with your index.</p>