Bryn Mawr College Named Top 20 LGBT-Friendly School by Princeton Review
![Rockefeller Hall at Bryn Mawr College](https://cdn10.phillymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Rockefeller_Hall_Bryn_Mawr.jpg)
Rockefeller Hall at Bryn Mawr College
This week, Princeton Review released its annual Most LGBT-Friendly Schools list. There weren’t too many surprises. Private, liberal stalwarts make the top three: Stanford in California, Oberlin in Ohio, and Emerson in Boston. There was one thing that caught my eye, though: UPenn didn’t make it.
If you keep track of lists like these, you know Penn’s always right there at the top. The results came from a survey sent to 130,000 college students across the country. And apparently the local school that impressed them most was Bryn Mawr College, which came in at a none-too-shabby No. 6.
Niche, a site that compiles college reviews and ratings, also agrees. It gives Bryn Mawr an “A” in diversity, noting that, “You will not find a place more gay-friendly than Bryn Mawr College. The Drag Ball at Haverford is very popular, and Bryn Mawr students recently resurrected the Rainbow Alliance on campus.”
Here’s the rest of the list:
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
- Emerson College, Boston, MA
- Smith College, Northampton, MA
- Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC
- Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
- New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
- Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
- Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
- Yale University, New Haven, CT
- New York University, New York, NY
- Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
- Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Rice University, Houston, TX
Source: Huffington Post