QUESTION. HOW DID U END UP AT UR CURRENT SCHOOL... DID U ALWAYS WANT TO GO THERE OR WAS IT BY CIRCUMSTANCES...
ME BEFORE LAST JANUARY... I NEVER EVER CONSIDERED AN HBCU... AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED. I WAS GOING TO BE A UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL PLAYER AND GO TO SCHOOL THERE. EITHER THERE OR POTENTIALLY CLEMSON. I HAD COMMITTED TO USM BEFORE THAT. WELL SH!T FELL APART AND THE COACH WHO RECRUITED ME GOT FIRED... IT WAS EITHER DELTA STATE.. A FEW POTENTIAL MORE SMALL PWC'S OR A JUNIOR COLLEGE... WELL A FEW WEEKS LATER JACKSON STATE CALLED AND OFFERED ME A FULL SCHOLARSHIP.... MY DAD WENT TO JACKSON STATE SO I LOOKED INTO EM.. TOOK A RECRUIT TRIP AND IT WAS OK. MISSISSIPPI STATE CALLED LIKE A WEEK BEFORE SIGNING DAY WAS LIKE WHY DON'T YOU WAIT ONE WEEK AFTER SIGNING DAY AND IF WE DO NOT SIGN THIS OTHER PLAYER, WE ARE GOING TO SIGN YOU. I WAS LIKE THAT IS TOO RISKY.. BECAUSE IF I WAIT AND THEY DON;T SIGN ME.. I AM STUCK LIKE CHUCK.... SO I WENT AHEAD AND SIGNED WITH JSU...
(I STILL WISH I WAS AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISS)... I LIKE DIVERSITY..
Well actually FAMU was my first choice. Atlanta has a real strong FAMU alumni base, plus I already had cousins and friends who already attended FAMU. I visited the campus and WOW ... I like what I saw, also FAMU have a good program in my major (occupational therapy). The atmosphere, programs, history, and crunkness of the school is what drove me to FAMU and I wouldnt change it for shyt :lol: .
Even though I applied to FAMU first, I got to accepted to Hampton first, but Hampton was just boring and dry to me for some reason... dont get me wrong, Hampton is a school institution, but I just wasnt feeling the vibe, but it was my second choice :roll: .
From what i heard about Spelman, I didn't want to go. But after visiting I realized that I had been lied to, lol. J/P but I had been fed a lot of misconceptions and I realized that It was the place for me. I applied early action so that I would have a better chance at getting a scholarship. By December I got what I wanted.
Well I always knew that I wanted to attend an HBCU. So after I realized that Hampton wasn't the place for me I set my sights on Atlanta since it seemed like a city with an atmosphere similar to D.C. After reseraching and visiting I decided that Clark Atlanta University was the place for me. It has city surroundings, medium student population, strong Communications program, active campus, and COOL people. I'm totally pleased w/ my decision(especially considering they aint givin' me ANY money!! :roll: )
Peace&Blessings.... 8) :lol:
I ended up at FAMU ( my 2nd choice ) cause my first choice rejected me. I was disappointed for a while, but I got excited to go to FAMU, and Im very happy Im here, and I know it was God sending me here, cause now that I look back...If I had gotten into my first choice and gone there, my college experience would have been so much more different, and I dont think it would have been as enjoyable as it is.
Going to an HBCU was never a serious thought until my sr year in HS. my parents were both products of an HBCU (now defunct Bishop College) and i had set my sights on going there but they closed before i started elementary school. I had considered Texas A&M (5 year masters in Computer Engineering appealed to me), University of Texas at Dallas(UTD) (they recruited heavily from my high school), FAMU, and Hampton cause my parents wanted me to go to an HBCU. After I got accepted to FAMU and UTD, Hampton wanted to send me the application I requested months earlier. My HS counselors and the school district set me up for the ookie-doke on GPA conversion so I went to the school with the best value for what we could afford. Now that I am at FAMU, I don't regret it even though my first visit was my first day of class, but I always wonder what would have happen had i had the money to go to Hampton. My 2nd choice, UTD, has no social life, no real college experience
well at first i was goin to go to NYU my dream school...i was so happy to be movin out of the state and far away but then the realization that i didn't get in set it i didn't make it cause my test scores weren't high enough i had the gpa and all the other things but my ACT and SAT messed me up...so i started lookin at other schools here in bama and it came down to Alabama State University and Samford university i got into both ASU first then Samford a 2 months later after they looked at my test scores....then i got this scholarship that would pay tution and instructional fees but I would have to go to a public college or university so that's how i ended up at ASU....but i'm happy though i think that i will have fun there get a degree then try again at NYU or maybe a different school all together...
QUESTION. HOW DID U END UP AT UR CURRENT SCHOOL... DID U ALWAYS WANT TO GO THERE OR WAS IT BY CIRCUMSTANCES...
ME BEFORE LAST JANUARY... I NEVER EVER CONSIDERED AN HBCU... AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED. I WAS GOING TO BE A UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL PLAYER AND GO TO SCHOOL THERE. EITHER THERE OR POTENTIALLY CLEMSON. I HAD COMMITTED TO USM BEFORE THAT. WELL SH!T FELL APART AND THE COACH WHO RECRUITED ME GOT FIRED... IT WAS EITHER DELTA STATE.. A FEW POTENTIAL MORE SMALL PWC'S OR A JUNIOR COLLEGE... WELL A FEW WEEKS LATER JACKSON STATE CALLED AND OFFERED ME A FULL SCHOLARSHIP.... MY DAD WENT TO JACKSON STATE SO I LOOKED INTO EM.. TOOK A RECRUIT TRIP AND IT WAS OK. MISSISSIPPI STATE CALLED LIKE A WEEK BEFORE SIGNING DAY WAS LIKE WHY DON'T YOU WAIT ONE WEEK AFTER SIGNING DAY AND IF WE DO NOT SIGN THIS OTHER PLAYER, WE ARE GOING TO SIGN YOU. I WAS LIKE THAT IS TOO RISKY.. BECAUSE IF I WAIT AND THEY DON;T SIGN ME.. I AM STUCK LIKE CHUCK.... SO I WENT AHEAD AND SIGNED WITH JSU...
(I STILL WISH I WAS AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISS)... I LIKE DIVERSITY..
is it diversity you like.....or the chance to get some white girls to give you **** cause you a balla the real reason :wink: :wink: ....just kidding wug
ok everybody, gather around for story time:
All my life I went to Predominantly White schools (Elem, Middle, half of High School) After my Freshman year of HS my Engish teacher signed me up for a Summer Camp for "Gifted and Talented Minorities" (Ha!) It was the first time that I was surrouned by smart black kids just like myself. So after that summer I made the decision to go to AN HBCU.
The only thing was that I didn't know which school to go. Ohio has two HBCUs but they really weren't on my radar. Especially after I went to Central State for May Weekend, and besides any school that advertises on the radio isn't somewhere I wanna check out. So I decided that if I'm going to a Black school, then I'm gonna go to one of the best.
DUN DUN DUUUNNN!!! So I started lookin' at schools down south. I was immediately drawn to Morehouse because I had heard so many things about the school, not to mention the fact that:
A: It's Martin Luther King's alma mata
B: It's in ATL
C: Surrouned by 2 female sschools
By the end of Junior year I had my schools narrowed down to:
1. OSU - Ask Shannelle, (BrownSugar) everybody from my High School referred to OSU as their back up school. "If I can't get into school A or B, then I'll settle for OSU cuz they'll give me the most money" and OSU was offerin' me a free ride too.
2. Clark Atlanta University - Clark has Mass Media and at the time I was interested in that as a Major.
3. Morehouse - I was looking at this school pretty damn hard, but the only down fall was it was all male, and they didn't have Communcation as a major.
Around September, Morehouse sent me a letter saying that because of my LSAT and ACT score they were inviting me to apply for Early Action. I took that as a sign from God that it was meant for me to go to Morehouse. I did and by Jan. I recieved my acceptance letter from Morehouse.
That April I went down to ATL to tour Morehouse and CAU. The tour with Clark "a'ight". The Dean of Admissions (The bald black guy with the ear-ring) gave a two hour speech that had everybody rollin'. But when I went to Morehouse for their tour, I just felt this COMPLETELY different atmosphere.
At Morehouse you didn't see everybody "dressed up". It wasn't like aybody was really putting on their best clothes to impress anybody. I guess I felt the "Morehouse Mystic" or the "Brotherhood" they preach.
To make a long story short, when I got home I called OSU and told them that I wasn't coming and that August I found myself at Da House and I've been happy ever since
I ended up at FAMU ( my 2nd choice ) cause my first choice rejected me. I was disappointed for a while, but I got excited to go to FAMU, and Im very happy Im here, and I know it was God sending me here, cause now that I look back...If I had gotten into my first choice and gone there, my college experience would have been so much more different, and I dont think it would have been as enjoyable as it is.
... I like what I saw, also FAMU have a good program in my major (occupational therapy). The atmosphere, programs, history, and crunkness of the school is what drove me to FAMU and I wouldnt change it for shyt :lol: .
Even though I applied to FAMU first, I got to accepted to Hampton first, but Hampton was just boring and dry to me for some reason... dont get me wrong, Hampton is a school institution, but I just wasnt feeling the vibe, but it was my second choice :roll: .
