This is my question. I hear all kind of people lauding the HBCU experience and seem utterly enraptured with the idea that they will be able to spend the four years of their undergraduate experience with people who share their same ethnic background. 1st question: Is this at all representative of real life? From my personal experience I have found that we, or at least in the upwardly socio-economic realm that you high achieving and socially conscious African-American (predominantly) hope to take part in, live in a white world. How will an HBCU where you will be surrounded by people like you and taught be professors like you be at all representative of real life? Or at least the one you hope to be living?
My 2nd question involves personal and academic preference. I have been accepted into a number of Universities and can go anywhere I want. So what would make me want to attend a HBCU rather than a more traditional Ivy League school or one of its equivalents when my goals is to become as educated as possible and subsequently be the most qualified for any future position or work that I would like to pursue. Furthermore, how diverse can an HBCU be and how much can you learn about other cultures/environments when you are surrounded my only one megaculture?
I am **** at this thread. I'm not going to say anything. I just have to get comfortable and watch the responses since I just got caught up.
Wait nobody say anything else until I get back from catching up in the Behold a Lady thread.
I wouldn't mind going to an HBCU. I actually wanted to go to an HBCU, but ya gotta go where the money is.
Going to a PWI, I can definitely tell you that to them you are definitely a number. The school doesn't want to actually see you succeed. They just want your money. In settings like this, learning to manipulate the system is a must, and networking is a neccessity. My friend goes to Hampton and she makes it seem like everyone is just unified and what not, where as up here, black people don't even really try to go out their way to speak to one another.
I think HBCU's are great...wonderful....and if you can afford to go to one, thats even better. I wanted to go to Howard-but my funds wont allow me to do so at the moment, so i had to go with plan B, a PWI. I have bragged about VCU plenty of times, and yes in some classes you are simply a number (especially as a fresh), but after your first, and towards your second year, this isnt the case. I dont know at other PWI's but just about all (except onez i got beef w/) the black people i walk past, we acknowledge each other-i mean there is no reason to hate if i dont even know u.Plus i can see, really, where my money is going to. VCU builds a new state of the art dorm EVERY year!! I was lucky enough to move into one of the newest dorms this semester. In addition to the dorms, we are always expanding, renovating, and making our campus bigger. There is only one building on campus that needs some serious help, but they are tearing that down and renovating it for next school year.I have plenty of friends who go to HBCU's and im not knocking them at all, but i just feel that i am getting MY money's worth. Shhiiit, we even got a d@mn club on campus (Shouts out to the HyperLink)! I be damned if im payin $20,000+ a year and dont have AC, or one microwave in my dorm-and ONE caf....yea right. :???lus this a NATIONALLY recognized University, so I shouldnt have too many problems finding a decent job.
It really all depends on where your at, HBCU or PWI, Because everything at every school is different.
lus this a NATIONALLY recognized University, so I shouldnt have too many problems finding a decent job.
It really all depends on where your at, HBCU or PWI, Because everything at every school is different. 
