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THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
Top 51Prceton Universy2Harvey Mudd College3Universy of Pennsylvania4Malter College5Elon UniversyLGBT iendly lleg are cril for the safety and well-beg of gay, lbian, trans, and nonnformg young people all over the natn. And the rult is a list of schools wh great amic standards and a mp atmosphere that is iendly to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Our RankgsContributg edor Peter Bernste and rearcher Courtney Kennedy drew on dozens of sourc to pile the rankgs cludg rmatn om the Natnal Center for Edutn Statistics, The Washgton Monthly, and College Prowler. The Universy of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League llege Philalphia is on seven of Newsweek's "bt of" lists, rankg 13th on our list of most sirable lleg; eighth on the list of most sirable urban lleg; send for most sirable large mp; sixth schools bt for future power brokers; first for gay-iendls and diversy; and fally, 18th among the 25 bt lleg for the super-smart.
"Berkeley is home to a proud LGBTIQQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex, Queer and Qutng) muny, which has a large prence on mp and mak the environment feel more tolerant, " wr one stunt on public school has an unrgraduate enrollment of jt over 25, 500, 53 percent of who were women the fall of 2009. Thanks to the school's reputatn for gay-iendls upled wh s amic crentials, the school plac nth on Newsweek's list of schools where gays get As, jt one more acla the school has racked up sce s foundg the 40, 000-pl stunts who attend Indiana Universy, more than 31, 000 are unrgrads. 15 on the list of schools for 50/50 genr breakdown, gay-iendly atmosphere, and racially, geographilly and socenomilly mixed stunt body mak Pomona the 20th most diverse school and the thirteenth among the bt gay-iendly schools on Newsweek's lists.
The school is also ranked the 15th bt gay-iendly the a roundup that seems to speak further to UCSC's broad-md atmosphere, the most popular majors the fall of 2008, the most recent year data was available, were psychology, art, bs management enomics, lerature and environmental studi, Universy of California, Santa Cz has an unrgraduate enrollment of jt over 16, 000. If that weren't enough, the school was also ranked by Newsweek as the 16th bt gay-iendly llege the untry and the 21st most sirable school 's clear why: For amics, the llege claims that 87 percent of s stunts ranked the top 10 percent at their high schools, averagg 33 on the ACT and 1520 on the SAT. 14—s stunts averaged a 34 on the ACT and a 1540 on the SAT and 90 percent e om the top 10 percent of their high-school Ain-Amerins, Hispanics, and Asians acuntg for nearly 40 percent of s stunt body and an appearance on The Advote's gay-iendly list, De tak eighth place among the most diverse schools the natn and 17th for the bt gay-iendly.