Wh the Tyler Clementi suici at Rutgers and the recent spate of gay teen suicis the news, many people are wonrg what lleg are safe for gay teens. Here's a gui to 10 of the bt.
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THE TOP 10 COLLEG FOR GAY STUNTS
Prceton’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Center was created 2005 and aims to provi an affirmg, supportive place for stunts to discs topics on genr inty, attend events, and get support, advice and referrals on LGBTQ issu.
Whether be through gay aterni, LGBT athlete groups, or safe zone and ally trags, the universi have shown great iative enrichg stunt life for the LGBT muny and their alli. The LGBTA Stunt Center sends out the OUTrir newsletter, holds Straight Talks which are “panels of speakers prised of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and ally stunts om a wi range of beliefs and background who te the universy muny on sexual orientatn, genr inty, opprsn and diversy at Penn State Universy” and updat s blog equently. To top off, there’s even a Lbian, Gay, Bi, Athlete Group, which clus a program workg toward elimatg homophobia sports and provis a place to talk wh other LGBT athlet.
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.
THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
"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. "You n fd any kd of background here, whether you are speakg about ethnicy or relign, " wr one stunt on "Addnally, the mp is fely more liberal and is very acceptg to gays and lbians. 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. Brown is also the fourteenth bt gay-iendly, gettg through the doors of this cal of tellect and broad-mdns is an elive qut; only around 14 percent of those who apply are accepted. 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.