Apart from the article posted in other threads, what is your experience with the Baylor undergrad community re being accepting of non-religious, non heterosexual students? Specifically, how welcoming would that community be of a gay student who is not religious?
Probably not a great fit for you. What about it attracts you?
Why make life harder than it needs to be ?
Baylor does not strike me a as a great fit for you either.
Here are their chapel requirements, they also require a couple of religion courses: https://www.baylor.edu/spirituallife/index.php?id=870498
Look into the LGBTQIA communities at Baylor, check the student and surrounding community newspapers, and reach out to student leadership and ask questions. Here is one article from 2019 that suggests there is some tension: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/26/lgbtq-students-baylor-university-still-pushing-recognition/
Baylor also makes the Advocate’s list of colleges most hostile to LGBTQ students:https://www.advocate.com/youth/2017/8/14/20-colleges-most-hostile-lgbt-students#media-gallery-media-15
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For what it’s worth, Baylor seems to appear on Princeton Review’s list of LGBTQ unfriendly schools with alarming frequency:
LGBTQ Unfriendly 2014-2021
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Auburn University 14 13 14 6 2 4 5 6
Baylor University 12 11 10 7 7 6 12 11
Brigham Young University - Provo 6 4 6 5 4 2 7 4
Calvin College (MI) 8 10 8 8 13 17 13 12
Catholic University of America 18 12 20 17 NR NR NR NR
Colgate University 15 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR
College of the Ozarks 3 1 3 3 1 1 1 1
Gettysburg College NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 17
Gordon College (MA) NR 15 7 4 3 7 9 7
Grove City College 1 2 1 9 6 5 4 5
Hampden-Sydney College 2 5 2 2 8 NR NR NR
Hillsdale College 17 16 9 11 9 11 18 NR
Hobart and William Smith Colleges NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 18
Indiana University of Pennsylvania NR 17 18 19 20 NR NR NR
Iowa State University NR NR NR NR NR 9 17 NR
Lehigh University NR NR 11 16 14 NR NR NR
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge NR NR NR NR NR NR 11 14
Montana Tech of the University of Montana NR NR NR 15 16 NR 14 15
Pepperdine University 19 7 NR NR NR NR NR NR
Providence College NR NR NR NR NR 10 10 13
Texas A & M University 11 19 13 NR NR NR NR NR
Texas State University NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 19
Trinity College (CT) 13 18 17 NR NR NR NR NR
University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa NR NR NR NR 10 14 6 8
University of Arkansas - Fayetteville NR NR 16 13 15 19 16 20
University of Dallas 10 NR 15 12 19 NR 8 9
University of Kentucky NR NR NR NR NR 20 NR NR
University of Mississippi NR 20 19 NR NR NR NR NR
University of Nebraska - Lincoln NR NR NR NR NR 12 19 NR
University of North Dakota NR NR NR 18 NR 13 20 NR
University of Notre Dame (IN) 5 9 NR NR NR NR NR 10
University of Rhode Island 9 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR
University of South Carolina - Columbia NR NR NR NR NR 15 NR NR
University of Tennessee - Knoxville NR 14 5 10 5 3 3 2
University of Utah NR NR NR 20 NR NR NR NR
University of Wyoming NR NR NR NR NR 18 15 16
Wake Forest University 7 6 12 14 12 16 NR NR
Wheaton College (IL) 4 3 4 1 11 8 2 3
Wofford College 16 8 NR NR 18 NR NR NR
University of Wyoming 20 NR NR NR 17 NR NR NR
I have a lot of Baylor relatives and Texas cousins planning on going there, you might be the first gay person a lot of them have met. I heard my grandparents at thanksgiving talking about being upset the head of Baylor issued something about allowing or okaying gay people. I live in a really liberal mountain west town and our school has many student groups of people of all types of people, trans- gay - bi whatever, and my cousins when they visit are shocked. And they are shocked and dismayed my family is not religious. It comes up a lot, I don’t think I could go to Baylor.
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