Posted on 07/27/2007 8:43:18 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Gay Friendly Colleges Ranked - Reed towards top Top of the list is New College of Florida, which provides a campus community most accepting of gay students. It also ranks number one for the most politically active tertiary institution, but ranks worst for a near absence of intercollegiate sports.
The top five gay-friendly Colleges are in order: New College of Florida; Macalester College of St. Paul, Minnesota; Wellesley College in Massachusetts; Eugene Lang College/New School University in New York City; and Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
The top College ranked by Princeton Review for academic experience is Reed College in Portland, Oregon; which ranks 18th on the list for being gay-friendly.
The least gay-friendly Universities in America according to this study are Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; the University of Notre Dame; and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Here is the complete list of the Top 20 Gay Friendly Colleges compiled by the Princeton Review:
1.) New College of Florida
2.) Macalester College
3.) Wellesley College
4.) Eugene Lang College/New School University
5.) Mount Holyoke College
6.) St. John's College (MD)
7.) Bryn Mawr College
8.) Lawrence University
9.) Emerson College
10.) Harvey Mudd College
11.) St. John's College (NM)
12.) Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
13.) Wesleyan University
14.) Marlboro College
15.) Carleton College
16.) Smith College
17.) Haverford College
18.) Reed College
19.) Bard College
20.) Oberlin College
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Hillsdale also doesn’t take government funding to avoid government race mandates (discrimination). Hillsdale is dedicated to true equality, it worked to abolish slavery and educate blacks (blacks were admitted immediately after it was founded in 1844) and was the second in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.
And liberals hate the place.
If interior decorating were a sport...............
Throw Bob Jones and Liberty University on that list
That was Annandale near DC
Can’t believe the university of Georgia is not in the to 10 gay friendly list.
Go Jackets
You’re a Mudder? My daughter graduated from there last year.
From the official Steely Dan FAQ:
“Donald Fagen meets Walter Becker at Bard College in Annandale-On Hudson, New York in 1967.”
Yea I know about Shalala. But I think perhapse a former RAT midwest senator is also involved with New College of Florida??
You would think that they would be good at one sport.
Spear-catching.
Looking at this list, except for the Federal service academies, Wheaton is the only school on the list with a top academic reputation. I know Hillsdale and Grove City are fashionable among conservatives, and are no doubt good schools, but they do not have the widespread national reputations for excellence to justify the cost. For that much money, I’d rather have my kid at a Northwestern or Chicago, where the faculties are mostly very solid, if liberal (as opposed the the very radical ivies and top West coast schools).
Georgia? I thought the University of Texas at Austin would have been in the top ten easily. Baylor, Texas A&M, Hardin Simmons, SMU, and TCU would have made the less friendly list easily. Lately, I have been worried about Texas A&M...
Glad to say I’ve attended two of the Most Conservative list-—BYU and U of Dallas.
“The least gay-friendly Universities in America according to this study are Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; the University of Notre Dame; and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.”
As a Bama football fan, I would normally dislike Notre Dame. However, I give them credit where credit is due and this is one list where I am glad they are ranked near the top.
Happy to see that Faber College did not make the list. Bluto and the the boys of Delta House can rest easy.
What about Emily Dickinson College?
No athletics???? And they call themselves a Flordia college????
Yes, but understand as a "comprehensive college" it's in a very different category. As a rule, I'd say you'd consider the top 100, and perhaps even top 150 national liberal arts colleges as more prestigious than even the most prestigious of the "comprehensive colleges"
I don't mean that as a rap on Grove City, but it just doesn't have the national reputation that we considered as a sine qua non for even letting our daughters consider a school.
I'm not really sure if an Ivy League education is all it is cracked up to be nowadays ( unless of course, your purpose is to be able to make friends with scions of politics and industry and make connections ).
The reason to go to the ivies (or the "little ivy" liberal arts colleges or ivy equivalents such as Chicago, Northwestern, Stanford and the public ivies like Michigan, Virginia, California and UCLA) is certainly the other students at least as much as the faculties, and has long been so. At one time it was primarily for the social connections you might make, and that's still true. But the primary reason today is because the competition to get into those schools is so fierce, the student bodies on the whole are brighter, which makes the learning environment more challenging, encourages the faculty to teach to a higher level, and is self-reinforcing. It's not that at the next tier of schools there aren't some students who are every bit as bright as the best at the top schools, it's that there aren't very many of them, and thus the median is substantially less bright. Most classes are taught in any university to the median, so in a school with a lower median level of ability, most classes are not pitched at as high a level as in a school where the median is much higher. There really is a difference in classes taught at a college where the median SAT score is 1200 and one where the median SAT score is over 1400.
Let’s compare the SAT and ACT range of some of the public Ivy’s you mentioned compared to Grove City ( I took this from a College Board webstite ) :
Michigan
SAT Critical Reading: 580 - 690 63%
SAT Math: 630 - 730 63%
ACT Composite: 27 - 31 72%
UCLA
SAT Critical Reading: 570 - 690 99%
SAT Math: 610 - 720 99%
SAT Writing: 590 - 700 99%
ACT Composite: 24 - 30 27%
Virginia
SAT Critical Reading: 600 - 710 98%
SAT Math: 620 - 720 98%
ACT Composite: 26 - 31 15%
Grove City
SAT Critical Reading: 586 - 710 93%
SAT Math: 590 - 700 93%
ACT Composite: 26 - 30 33%
I think in terms of student IQ, this small college compares quite well with the big universities. If you factor in the out of state cost, I’m sure you’ll see that value for money wise, this small Christian college isn’t doing too badly for students with good academic backgrounds.
BTW, I’ll grant this — Grove and Hillsdale do not have the facilities these schools you mention have. One major reason is because these two small colleges don’t have graduate programs. They are UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS.
Also, Schools like Grove and Hillsdale are also very well managed ( great campus with well maintained buildings ), with no debt at all. This is outstanding testimony to the fact that you don’t need federal aid to provide good college education.
I personally think that it would be worthwhile to get your undergrad degree in colleges like these that provide solid moral grounding as well as excellent education. After that, then you can go to graduate school in any of the bigger, more well known schools if you wish. Many Grove and Hillsdale grads do that already ( and most aren’t in debt by tens of thousands of dollars after graduation ). I think overall, it is worth considering.
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