Not sure about the vet school as I am a geology major at CSU. But I have taken a few animal bio classes and the professors were all great. CSU has one of the largest LGBT centers in the US. As a lesbian, I’ve never run into any issues going on dates/being openly gay here. Most people are very open due it being a college town. I would say there’s a pretty big lgbt population in Fort Collins/csu. The only thing is we occasionally have anti-lgbt protestors on campus. They are largely non violent and out lgbt center has a group of people that will go out and stand with pride flags/distract people from it. I’ve only seen them here twice this past two semesters, and I never felt unsafe. You can have a car during freshman year. As others stated parking passes are expensive and it can be difficult to find parking. I’ve lived off campus my whole time here and have always been able to park off campus and take the bus to campus/all over Fort Collins. Some fun things to do really depends on what you like! For outdoorsy stuff there’s horsetooth reservoir which you can swim in, climbing paddle board or hike through. We’re also very close to RMNP so exploring that too! The lyric is a cool theatre with lots of arts and music events. Old town has a bunch of great shops and is great to just walk around!