| I'm sorry for your situation, but I can't help but to ask you why are you really leaving UCLA? Is it based on your first year's roommates/situation? It doesn't seem like a valid enough reason in my opinion. You're going to encounter ignorance wherever you go, you're just assuming UCB and Stanford are more accepting when it reality it just looks like you're trying to trade up. If you really wanted gay/lesbian friendly schools UCB/Stanford aren't the schools that first come to mind. I would even go as far as to say that UCSC is more gay friendly than UCB.
No offense, I'm a gay male, and I find it really hard to believe that UCLA is bad with their gay population. I live in Los Angeles, and its one of the more open cities in the country, and I still have gotten harassed for simply being a gay male. Its not the city, or the school, its the individual people with the closed minds that will think its okay to harass you just because you're different. At the end of the day you need to value yourself, and a part of that is facing up to your adversaries.
PS If you're dead set on leaving, I would look into Pomona College. |