Two Texas schools
again make gay worst list
Texas A&M holds same
spot on survey
By ERIC ERVIN,
houstonvoice.com from the Web. August 22, 2006
For another consecutive year, two
Texas schools have made the list of the top 20 worst colleges for gay students,
both placing in the top 10.
According to the Princeton Review, Baylor University and Texas A&M
University-College Station ranked No. 6 and No. 7 respectively on the list of
the top 20 schools where an "Alternative Lifestyle is not an Alternative."
The list is included in the recently released 2007 edition of the book "The Best
361 Colleges."
This year’s ranking shows a three-point drop for Baylor, which ranked No. 3 in
the 2006 edition. Texas A&M holds the same spot—No. 7—as in last year’s ranking.
Sixty of the 62 rankings represent the voice of 115,000 students attending 361
schools. Princeton Review officials said an average of 300 students at each
school answered an 80-question survey about their school’s academics,
administration, campus life, student body and other topics.
"We consider these colleges the best in the nation academically," Robert Franek,
author of the rankings book, said in a press release. "But the real challenge
for applicants and parents is finding the college that's best for them. That's
why our profiles and unique ranking lists report in depth what the colleges'
customers—the students themselves—tell us about their schools and their
experiences at them."
Officials said 95 percent of the surveys were submitted by students online and
seven percent filled out in person. The school rankings for the categories “Best
Academics” and “Toughest to Get Into” are compiled using institutional data,
said Princeton Review officials.
Others on the list of worst colleges for gay students include University of
Notre Dame (1), Hampden-Sydney College (2), Brigham Young University (3),
Wheaton College (4), College of the Holy Cross (5), Grove City College (6),
University of Tennessee-Knoxville (9), Samford University (10), Seton Hall
University (11), Valparaiso University (12), Pepperdine University (13),
Washington and Lee University (14), Miami University (15), Trinity College (16),
North Carolina State University (17), University of Utah (18), Calvin College
(19), and Providence College.
According to the Princeton Review, the top 20 “Gay Community Accepted” schools
are New York University (1), Eugene Lang College/New School University (2), New
College of Florida (3), Macalester College (4), College of the Atlantic (5),
Simon's Rock College of Bard (6), Wellesley College (7), Mount Holyoke College
(8), Bryn Mawr College (9), Bennington College (10), Emerson College (11),
Lawrence University (12), Harvey Mudd College (13), Grinnell College (14), Smith
College (15), Wesleyan University (16), Swarthmore College (17), Hampshire
College (18), Vassar College (19) and Reed College (20).
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