<p>If so, does simply putting this detail on your application increase your chances of being accepted? Must you write an essay about it to get accepted? When does it become exploiting your sexual orientation simply to get into college?</p>
<p>I have never heard of that… So no on all fronts.</p>
<p>I doubt LGBT students are “recruited” I think it just adds diversity to a student body. Suppose two students apply to the same school and both have identical scores, GPA, ECs, etc. The diversity of the LGBT student may get them admitted, while the other student was not. At best, it contributes to the diversity of the college overall. But nowhere on the same level as URMs.</p>
<p>At most universities the openly LGBTQIPAD population is higher in percent than outside in the normal world… Some of the universities that have lower rates wouldn’t be actively recruiting due to “moral reasons”.</p>
<p>No, they are not. Not only are LGBTs overrepresented in higher education, but there is no way of indicating your sexual orientation on your application.</p>
<p>This may have been true 30 years ago.</p>
<p>What an odd first-and-only post on College Confidential!</p>
<p>Hmm…</p>
<p>This is probably a mutated rumor from a newsstory a while back where UPenn (I think) gave the names of admitees who self-identified as LGBT to campus LGBT organizations – the goal of which was to welcome them and let them know that UPenn was a good environment for them. They wanted to land those they had admitted in order to turn them into matriculants.</p>
<p>This is marketing. But not recruiting or giving preference to LGBT applicants.</p>
<p>So your initial premise is WAY off.</p>