Which college/college town would be best for me?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Lately I've been living vicariously through the internet, while spending most of my free time on collegeboard.org and **************. Fantasizing about colleges and lives that one could have if I were to go to specific colleges, all varying depending on the state, and whether the atmosphere is urban or rural, cold weather hot weather, etc. etc. etc.</p>

<p>Anyways the question is if for me: someone who would want to go into the social sciences (sociology/political sciences) and visual/liberal arts fields, is a lesbian, and won't be able to gain much financial aid/scholarships (DREAMact). </p>

<p>Which of these cities would be better? I've sort of been looking at NYC (love the northern brooklyn/lower manhattan atmosphere), Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco (and I've found a few colleges in the Berkeley area and surrounding San Francisco), Detroit, Chicago, or Boston.</p>

<p>I love the ruggedness yet "hipsterish" feeling that Northern Brooklyn has, and that's pretty much my only experiece from the places I mentioned. I've also always wanted to live near or in San Francisco, so if I could find a college for me there that'd be great too. Are there any colleges/universities in the areas I mentioned that would have good programs for the majors I mentioned, and would also be very gay friendly? </p>

<p>Thanks in advance! :)</p>

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<p>What are your stats? Then I can recommend some schools.</p>

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<p>@mmmgirl I actually have not taken the SAT’s yet, and I’m signed up for the October ACT’s. I’m a junior in high school with a 87.9 qpa.</p>

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<p>I would recommend looking into the following schools because of their locations and/or their ranking for sociology:
NYU
Illinois-chicago (UIC)
Wisconsin-Madison
Penn state
Pitt
Boston U
Boston college
Temple
Loyola-Chicago</p>

<p>From living in places or knowing people that live bear them, I can tell you that Chicago, NYC, and san Francisco are all pretty LGBT friendly.</p>

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<p>Boston is an awesome college town! It has everything you want/need and has a higher population of young people due to the many colleges/universities in it or near it (BU, Northeastern, Mass College of Art, Fisher, Berklee, Emerson, Emmanuel, Simmons, Lesley, Suffolk, Wheelock, Wentworth, UMass Boston, Harvard, MIT, Tufts etc. etc.)</p>

<p>I would prefer Boston, then S.F. (better weather!), then NY. Pitt and Portland are OK but can’t compare overall with the top 3. (Never been to Chicago so I don’t want to rank it)</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot to both of you! I’ll try to keep them in mind when narrowing down a few choices haha :)</p>