<p>Will the admission officers look down upon you if you disclose your homosexuality? Will this hurt your chance to get in?</p>
<p>what if i disclose my heterosexuality? will that aid in admissions?</p>
<p>No, because then everyone would be homosexual for the college app period. I think that "homosexuality" was listed as an EC on some university's (UC?) list though</p>
<p>It depends on the school. I have activities that somewhat clearly dictate my sexual orientation (gay rights events, AIDS walks, gay-straight alilance, theatre, etc), but I'm not writing my essays about it as I thought I would. It just seems preachy and like I'm taking advantage of something.</p>
<p>I AM, however, writing about our GSA for the Michigan "discuss an issue of local or national concern" statement.</p>
<p>Short answer, it will probably not hurt you (it may even help you if it's a school that doesn't attract a lot of gay kids), but be careful. I wouldn't write to Brigham Young, the University of South Carolina, or Hillsdale about how you wish you want to have a sex change, but...you know what common sense is.</p>
<p>I like you Renin says that Theater Clearly dictates his sexual orientation as gay</p>
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It depends on the school. I have activities that somewhat clearly dictate my sexual orientation (gay rights events, AIDS walks, gay-straight alilance, theatre, etc)
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Since when is theatre homosexual activity? :</p>
<p>Since shakespeare was gay. You could also argue that AIDS walks =/= gay. Maybe you got it from a blood transfusion or something.</p>
<p>Yeah, AIDS definitely doesn't relate as directly to homosexuality in the present day and time, and theater definitely doesn't correlate directly with homosexuality. Every guy I know in theater is straight, and every gay guy I know isn't in theater.</p>
<p>Where would you disclose it, anyway?</p>
<p>Could a college even legally discriminate based on it?</p>
<p>Homosexuality, in and of itself, doesn't count as an EC. An activity- like membership in the GSA- would.</p>
<p>so you guys are saying that adcoms discriminate because of sexuality? I thought they want diverse communities, so i see that as an advantage.</p>
<p>diverse sexual orientations? interesting.</p>
<p>I have no idea if it would help you; I suspect very little if at all.</p>
<p>But to answer your original question, it will absolutely not hurt you at all. Unless you're applying to Bob Jones or a similar school, in which case it's probably an automatic rejection. But you probably don't want to go to BJU anyway.</p>
<p>At our local high school, one of the officers of GSA was straight, so I don't think people can assume you are gay even if you have heavy involvement in GSA. Same thing with HIV or theater. Just be who you are and don't worry about it.</p>
<p>Just don't apply to Hillsdale or Wheaton.</p>
<p>Most colleges are very liberal, I can't see you getting hurt by that.</p>
<p>Why would you want to talk about your sexuality on a college application? It's kind of dated to do a coming out of the closet essay. If you had a leadership position in a gay organization and spend significant time on it, list it.</p>