Can Baylor reject you for having an LGBTQ+ activity on your application? Sorry if this question sounds rude, I’m just genuinely curious.
It’s a genuine question but no they won’t,a decade ago for sure but not any more, as long as you are a competitive and eligible applicant.
They could. They’d never say that was why. I’m not sure I’d put it on a Baylor app. Baylor made this top 20 list of colleges hostile to LGBTQ students. I have an LGBTQ kid, and would have discouraged her from applying to any of these.
I have experienced Baylor as a parent, not a student, but I’ll give you my 2 cents…that’s what this forum is for after alll!
You may want to read this article about a book written by an actual student: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2014/02/26/brittney-griner-talks-homosexuality-baylor-animosity-in-tell-all-book/5840791/
I am certain that Baylor does not have a policy discriminating against students based on involvement in clubs that reference sexuality, but nobody can know what will happen with an individual application, which will be read by many reviewers who are all, to one degree or another, flawed, inconsistent, and affected by personal bias. That is called being human, and it could work for you or against you, of both for AND against you with different reviewers.
More importantly, if your stance on sexuality is an important part of who you are, you may want to consider focusing on Universities who will encourage and celebrate that with you. Fortunately for you, that represents the vast majority of U.S. universities today. I would expect that Baylor at it’s best would be loving and kind to you, but probably never as supportive as you would like. All universities mold themselves in a unique pattern that makes them different from all of the others. For Baylor, one of those distinctives is being a Christian university, with “Christian” in this case being particularly defined by the Baptist statement of faith. They don’t expect or require all students to embrace that faith, but the school administration will not apologize for corporately or individually expressing their beliefs. Within that statement of faith, sexual acts are only encouraged within the bonds of marriage, and marriage is defined as a union between on man and one woman.
Nobody is blind here: there is a lot of sex of all sorts going on at Baylor, and students aren’t getting penalized for it. But while some Universities may embrace and celebrate that for their students as exploration of human sexuality, that is not the value system of the Institution. Their values also are to love you and treat you as uniquely created in the image of God, so you shouldn’t be excluded or marginalized. But neither will you be encouraged and celebrated for your stance on LGBQT issues So you just have to decide if the things that attract you to Baylor outweigh these considerations, and not be upset that Baylor is trying to openly live out a belief system that is not consistent with your own.
Good luck with the process!