<p>Inside Higher Ed reports outreach to gay apps</p>
<p>News:</a> Outreach to Gay Applicants - Inside Higher Ed</p>
<p>Great idea that I believe other colleges should adopt.</p>
<p>“And while Penn has found ways to reach out to admitted applicants who are gay without asking the question, some advocates for gay and lesbian students are starting to talk about pushing colleges to add such a question (as an option). One group is preparing to petition the Common Application to do so.”</p>
<p>lol…
“We regret to inform you that we are rescinding your acceptance after discovering that you are not indeed gay.”
“But…um…But I’m bi!”
Seriously, how will this work?</p>
<p>Monstor, obviously you didn’t read the article…</p>
<p>Actually you are wrong! The article does seem to focus on asking applicants who have already been admitted…But there was also this part:</p>
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Sorry I wasn’t clear enough; my hypothetical scenario focused on this issue.</p>
<p>Just think, if they begin to identify gay apps, and develop SAT data etc based on sexual orientation, we will be able to have endless conversations here on CC about preferences fro gay apps, affirmative action etc. Is it an EC?</p>
<p>^haha, true.</p>
<p>“lol…
“We regret to inform you that we are rescinding your acceptance after discovering that you are not indeed gay.”
“But…um…But I’m bi!”
Seriously, how will this work?”</p>
<p>HAHA, i actually thought about-a couple of years back-what would happen if i wrote my essay on being gay, even though i’m not. it was just like a random thought that had occurred to me. it probs would have given me a boost, too, lol. butttt, i didn’t : P</p>
<p>Sexual preference should have no effect on your application. And suppose they gave gays some type of priority, like being first generation college bound, Couldn’t people just click the gay button? how would they prove it?</p>
<p>Just like race and gender, sexual orientation shouldn’t matter. How mad would you be if someone less qualified than you got accepted because they’re gay?</p>
<p>i remember back during Vietnam, some guys pretended they were gay to get out of the draft. Now you can pretend your gay to get into an elite college! times have changed.</p>
<p>I think that it’s fine for private colleges to use increasing diversity of all kinds – including in terms of sexual orientation – as admission factors. A major asset of some private colleges – particularly top ones – is the opportunity to be exposed to the ideas and information that one can get by being in a diverse community, including one that includes people who are not heterosexual.</p>
<p>The top private colleges attract an overabundance of academically qualified applicants, so have the luxury of picking and choosing from those applicants the ones who’ll most contribute to an active, diverse campus.</p>
<p>^ I’m not so much annoyed at there being yet another opportunity for discrimination in the college admissions process to occur; rather, I am bewildered as to how these schools will determine if applicants are being straightforward (ha, ha) about their orientation or not.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Very true…if there becomes a perception that gay students will be given a preference, then some straight kids will try to take advantage of it.</p>
<p>Are students supposed to provide evidence of their sexual orientation? Verification seems like a rather tricky process in this case…</p>
<p>Do colleges give married or engaged students, few as they may be, preference over single students? While I get the diversity part, isn’t the whole idea that gay people should be accepted, not segregated, like people sometimes are by race?</p>
<p>The only true issue I have here, is that at the age of 17-18, most people still aren’t fully matured to understand sexuality, or what they truly want. Some kids may think they’re gay, but not be, others may think they’re straight, but not be.</p>
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<p>“I’m not so much annoyed at there being yet another opportunity for discrimination in the college admissions process to occur; rather, I am bewildered as to how these schools will determine if applicants are being straightforward (ha, ha) about their orientation or not.”</p>
<p>Given the homophobia in society, do you honestly think that students will lie and say they are trans, gay or bi in order to gain an edge in college admissions? I doubt that even the biggest prestige whores would do this.</p>
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Yes. I don’t see how homophobia could affect that; first of all, we’re talking the highest echelon of schools where the homophobics are the ones ostracized. Plus it’s not like they’re announcing to the world that they’re gay, for they’re only telling a handful of adcoms. Plus, how does an adcom prove/disprove someone is gay? And even if they are sure of it, what’ll they do, kick them out/rescind them because they believe that they are straight? There are just way too many holes for this to work.</p>
<p>If adcoms announced that they were suddenly looking for kids whose favorite color is magenta, how many applicants would list their favorite color as magenta, true or not?</p>
<p>This is kind of interesting, a little unrealated but I just sent my transfer application to Georgetown and in one of my essays I devoted a good paragraph or so about being the first to come out in a rural blue collar town and its positive impact, currently Georgetown has had alot of interest with the NOH8 campaign after a student was attacked.Positive impact on my application, thoughts?</p>