Suggestions for a stuck junior?

goingnutsmom
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:54:12 +0000

I was going to say Oberlin but then saw your comment about nixing the LAC’s. Too bad. Oberlin has an art museum and students camp out to check out the art work for their dorm. It’s also close to Cleveland which has a great cultural scene- The Cleveland Museum of Art is free for everyone and the University Circle area is both cultural and funky. CaseWestern University is right there too and their students take art classes at the museum.

I know you said no prep/frat scene but Tulane in NOLA is another possibility. Their admissions website currently has an intro piece to the school’s LBGTQ culture and organizationss at the school. The admissions head is a gay young man who graduated from there. Univ of Loyola New Orleans is right next door and as a Jesuit school is very progressive. Our S felt very comfortable there and received an incredible merit scholarship- very art/music oriented kids there. NOLA is like no other city in the US. The art scene there is incredible. Something to go to every day.

Don’t scratch off UChicago yet. It’s a school in a big city with an intimate feel. Chicago is incredible with the arts too. And the kids there are awesome according to my D who did an overnight and had so much fun with them- bright, funny, and unpretentious.

My S is at Carnegie Mellon at the College of Fine Arts and loves Pittsburgh. The environment is very LBGTQ friendly. But I don’t know about the strength of the classics there or really at any of the above.

All of the schools are in the Midwest, Mid Atlantic or south and give you I think a much better chance of acceptance than the Northeast schools on your list. Plus you would learn so much about another part of the country.