<p>I will start the list with several of the liberal liberal arts colleges that are very friendly towards gay students: Oberlin College, Vassar College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Reed College, Kenyon College.</p>
<p>What are some of the bigger schools that are good for gay students?</p>
<p>According to my mom, who is a hardcore Christian fundamentalist, Berkeley is 80% gay. She's not letting me go there cuz she thinks it's "all gays! all gays!" I doubt this is anywhere close to the truth, but it could be that 80% of the students accept/support homosexuality...</p>
<p>I think Princeton Review has NYU listed as pretty gay-friendly.</p>
<p>try Universit of San Fran....(even though its a catholic school and probably does not accept gays, it IS SF!!)</p>
<p>lol
I think schools in the northern big cities will tend to be more diverse and thus gay-friendly. Ie. Upenn, Columbia. </p>
<p>And what about Vassar?</p>
<p>Regionally thinking, the South is going to be the least gay-friendly. The west is going to be the most gay-friendly. Of course, these are just generalizations, but I think san fransico is the most gay-friendly city.</p>
<p>miami, florida is also gay friendly. try university of miami</p>
<p>I think most schools in NY, LA, San Fran, Boston would be gay friendly.</p>
<p>You should be basing your undergrad experience on academics, not whether you'll be tolerated or not. Do you see nerds shying away from top schools like Penn or Vanderbilt just because other top schools tolerate nerds more? No!</p>
<p>sodfather, he doesn't want to go somewhere where people won't be open to his preferences. And things other than academics are important when choosing a college. The best college in the world might be in Brazil. Does that mean you shouldn't consider the fact you don't know any portugul just because it's offering the best possible education, or would you rather choose a school where they speak your native langauge.</p>
<p>BARD College</p>
<p>I'm gonna disagree with the Miami thing. The city is pretty gay friendly, but the school is fairly conservative.</p>
<p>Princeton Review lists the following schools as gay-friendly:</p>
<p>Eugene-Lang College
NYU
Sarah Lawrence
New College of Florida
Brandeis
Mount Holyoke
Reed
Hendrix
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Bard
Grinnell
Barnard
Simon's Rock College of Bard
Harvey Mudd
Oberlin
Emerson
College of the Atlantic
Whitman
Lawrence U</p>
<p>Anything in DC or Boston should be fine. Especially DC.</p>
<p>I'm sorry to say this, but I would shy away from a school like Vanderbilt... The south still isn't quite with it.</p>
<p>BYU and Bob Jones.</p>
<p>UC Davis is quite gay-friendly</p>
<p>okay, rather than a laundry list, here's what i know...
NYU:
My bestfriend, a hetero male goes to NYU and he loves the relatively large amount of gays in the school, especially considering the hotness of NYU ladies... less competition. one of his best friends there is gay. metrosexuality is expected. cleanliness and hot man-flesh is constant. and... it's in the villiage. so many gay groups outside of the college too and pride events. </p>
<p>Wesleyan:
One of the first colleges to acnowledge transgendered people and offer non-gender based rooming... so if you're gay, you may end up rooming with a girl, if you so choose. there is a very vocal gay population and the school itself is very liberal.</p>
<p>Reed, Bard, Sarah Lawrence:
EXTREMELY, ridiculously loud gay pride groups. It's fine to assert your rights and have fun... but i sometimes feel that there are so many protests about nothing... but these schools are small, so the gay-pride elements really revirberate.</p>
<p>Upper LAC and Ivy League... are very very tolerant, especially those in cities... they'll have a gay pride group... and plenty of people willing to explore and accept. Me, I'm going for that... a bit more like the real world than the Bastions of Homosexuality, but still huggier.</p>
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<p>UC B isn't 80% gay...</p>
<p>SF State has pretty good chuck of gay people in the study body...about 75%, or so I heard. (but then SF State edu may not be for you!)</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz. i'm a student there and it's VERY VERY gay friendly.</p>
<p>I have no clue if this is true but I got a laugh out of it. When I visited Lehigh over the summer there was a HUGE poster supporting the gay population in the caffeteria building. It has lots of signatures and stuff... kind of an interesting thing to see when they take you on the tour. There was no other activism type stuff around just one big poster supporting the gay/lesbian population.</p>
<p>... don't take this like I was offended by it but I thought it was a bit odd. The guides didn't even address they just quickly walked by it and continued to explain the food services area.</p>