Please Match a 3.0 GPA Rising Senior (finally got it working LOL)

Because your profile is “irregular”, you’ll need a lot of matches and likelies since you don’t know what the colleges will see and whether they’ll want to take a chance.
My instinct tells me several will be interested but you can’t know which ones, so you need to “apply widely”.

CA publics are out of reach because your 10th-11th GPA disqualifies you from applying.
You can reach out to Cal State Humboldt (highlighting Covid effects and taking APs senior year) but they may be prevented from considering your application due to GPA.

Seconding Wheaton (MA): they have a very innovative and flexible list of majors that should match your interests, are supportive (in case college is a bit rough at first since HS has been rocky and you had mental health issues), and while they’re not urban, you can easily get to a city. Get on their mailing list now in order to demonstrate interest.

UNC Wilmington would be a larger university in a beach town.

Eckerd and Whittier good matches, Eckerd is right on the beach - but while the college itself is quite LGBTQ friendly, the State itself has become horrendous for LGBT youth of late so the surrounding areas may not be welcoming due to the increasingly worrying rhetorics. You may want to get on their mailing list but also email the LGBTQ student association to ask about the impact of political rhetorics on the area (for instance, would you risk sth if you kiss off campus? if you hold hands? could someone refuse to serve you at a dining establishment? are there insults/hateful speeches/slurs when off-campus? Hopefully the answer to all this is “no”, but while it was often assumed in the past save for some areas, it no longer can.) This BTW applies to all states or areas where the anti-LGBTQ rhetorics has suddenly picked up, not just Florida.

Coastal Carolina would be a safety (you need one) and you could even roll the dice and apply to the Honors program thanks to your AP classes.
Same thing for Salisbury in MD.

URI, WWU, UPuget Sound would be slight reaches but within reach.

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Second the suggestions of UMass-North Dartmouth and Merrimack.

As a big reach school, you might try for Connecticut College.

Look at SUNY ESF

If you are open to a unique, very small, school consider Warren Wilson College in the mountains just outside Asheville NC. It has some great environmental programs, is super hands on (it’s a work college where everyone has to have a job on campus) and is the most LGBTQ friendly school I know of.

Another I agree with the U Mass Dartmouth suggestion. The School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) is focused on grad students but there are also undergraduate research opportunities with faculty. The hands-on work opportunities would be engaging as well as a great way to bolster your resume going forward.

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This might be worth a try; I’d guess you’re pretty good at essay exams: The Bard Entrance Examination Bard is very LGBTQ+ friendly, and it’s relatively diverse for a LAC (64% non-Hispanic white, 12% Hispanic/LatinX).

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