<p>(the list of schools provided was nowhere near exhaustive and did not include many LAC's)</p>
<p>Schools that scores 5/5:
Ithaca College
Oregon State
Syracuse
Penn State
UC Berkeley
U Illinois Chicago
U Oregon
U Pennsylvania
USC</p>
<p>4.5/5:
American
Bucknell
Carleton
Cornell U
Dartmouth
Eastern Michigan U
Hampshire C
Ohio U
Pomona
Princeton
Southern Oregon U
UCLA
UC Riverside
U Maryland- College Park
U Michigan
U Puget Sound
U Utah
U Vermont
U Washington
Wash U</p>
<p>Schools that scored 4/5:
George Mason U
Green Mountain C
Lewis and Clark C
MIT
NYU
Northern Illinois U
Roosevelt U
Rowan U
Sarah Lawrence C
Southern Illinois U- Carbondale
Suffolk U
UCSD
UC Boulder
U Florida
U Maine
U Massachusetts- Amherst
U Minnesota-Duluth
U Missouri-Kansas City
U Wisconsin- Madison
Vassar
Washington State U
Wesleyan
Whitman</p>
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<p>This data is frustrating if only because the schools that were ranked on the website are not necessarily the schools that CC kids talk about a often, but overall I think it shows that universities all over the country have solid programming and support.</p>
<p>It's kind of a joke to me that Wesleyan, Vassar, and NYU are only ranked 4/5, especially when compared with a lot of schools that are 4.5/5 and 5/5.</p>
<p>I felt the same way. The first rankings I posted are from the same person who put together The Advocate's college ranks, and their criteria are largely policy-based and have almost nothing to do with what percent of the undergraduate population is LGBTQ/ally.</p>
<p>I'm still a little suspicious... I encourage students to see if they can look into college newspapers to get an idea of how acceptance or discrimination is practiced de facto at a particular college. I imagine a lot of news articles about LGBTQ issues at various college campuses will include quotes from students on how it "really" is, and even op-eds could be a good source of assessing the community.</p>
<p>It's kind of silly to make LGBTQ friendliness lists based solely on policies of the institution. Perhaps schools like Vassar/Wesleyan/NYU are ranked somewhat lower only due to the fact that they are such accepting places they don't need a lot of LGBTQ "policy."</p>
<p>I mean, come on, U of Utah more LBGT friendly than the schools I listed? It's ridiculous. I bet the percentage of LGBTQ/ally students at Vassar/Wesleyan/NYU is astronomically higher than the percentage at U of Utah and some other schools that got 4.5/5 and 5/5. And to me, that statistic is a much better measure of how friendly a school will be to LGBTQ students.</p>
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Top 25 Universities with non-discrimination policies that cover sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression:
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<p>In addition to those, Stanford has a very explicit statement of nondiscrimination policy (the first page of the bulletin given to every student):</p>
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Stanford University admits students of either sex and any race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the University. Consistent with its obligations under the law, it prohibits discrimination, including harassment, against students on the basis of sex, race, age, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national and ethnic origin, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law in the administration of its policies, admissions policies, scholarships and loan programs, and athletic and other University-administered programs.
<p>Caltech has gender neutral bathrooms in all of their undergrad dorms, I believe. All bathroom facilities are shared by both sexes, as both live on the same hall (and I believe room, if they want).</p>
<p>Heck, half a bunch of the older academic buildings on campus only have one bathroom per floor, and there's a little slider which you can cover up MENS or WOMENS with so both genders can use it.</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence, Vassar and NYU get some of the lower grades? I think the Princeton Review's list is probably more reliable because it's based on student interviews and evaluations rather than just policies (and NYU is #3 on their's).</p>
<p>Grinnell, Oberlin, Bard, Skidmore, Reed, Pitzer, Smith, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bates, Knox, Beloit, Lawrence, Colorado, UMinnesota-Twin Cities, UTexas-Austin, UNorth Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Macalester (to name a few) not ranked high on gay friendliness?????</p>
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Haha, what's the M:F ratio for CalTech again? Those poor, brilliant women don't even have their own place to use the bathroom =P
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<p>Haha, at least it's not as bad as what one of my friends here was telling me about her time at the Colorado School of Mines. They had something like 80% guys there. She was one of two girls in her physics class of 50 or 60.</p>
<p>Our incoming frosh class is 40% women, which is really pretty good. Also, in the North Houses the restrooms are separated by gender (the urinals in the womens' are filled with potted plants in some cases because they were built before women entered the school) and are coed in the South Hovses.</p>
<p>For some reason, MIT wasn't on the gender-neutral bathrooms and housing lists, even though most dorms have gender-neutral bathrooms, and the overwhelming majority of non-Greek housing is gender-neutral.</p>
<p>Grinnell, Oberlin, Bard, Skidmore, Reed, Pitzer, Smith, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bates, Knox, Beloit, Lawrence, Colorado, UMinnesota-Twin Cities, UTexas-Austin, UNorth Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Macalester (to name a few) not ranked high on gay friendliness????</p>
<p>UT is gay-friendly? I always heard it was pretty conservative.</p>
<p>UT is a huge place so it's easy to find all sorts of political viewpoints. The underlying atmosphere of the place, however, is anything but conservative.</p>
<p>I will be attending UT Austin next year and I can assure most everyone that it is one of the most liberal universities in the south, especially because of Austin.</p>
<p>hi, I'm an international student who is bisexual, muslim, n chinese (seems a pretty good target for bigotry, eh?)</p>
<p>I'm applying to honors in business in Louisiana State U (bcos i can't afford expensive out of state tuition, n it's offering much scholarship for my 2020 SAT score), U of Minnesota (better school but dun think i can afford it), and Buffalo. Does anyone know if these schools r acceptant twds my background? (esp Louisiana coz it seems conservative, buffalo seems diverse enough)</p>
<p>Does anyone have any suggestion of any school for me (but i cant afford more than abt 20k per yr)?</p>