I just wanted to know why you guys are going to HBCU's. I think that
other colleges are great but college is about more than getting a degree, it's about getting a complete education. A complete education consist of learning about the world, why your are hear, what are going to do in life and most importantly it's about learning about yourself. Now other colleges can fulfill all of those but an HBCU is obviously the best to learn about yourself and your people. I personally got accepted into some of the top colleges in the nation but I would turn down Harvard to go to an HBCU!
I want to attend a HBCU because i go to an mostly white high school and i want to be around people of my color and the people who like to do the same things i like to do and people who i can relate to.. i just feel comfortable around black people , people of my color and i know i will get a great education from an HBCU. North carolina a&t is where i want to go so i know i will get a great education there . FUTURE AGGIE!!!
ok tis is kind of sad to say but im tryin to be around my own kind cuz ive kinda been deprived...but i know HBCU grads and u cant beat the support you get from your own people...i want to learn in the prescence of ppl who look like me and have had some of the experiences ive had....u knoe?
Besides the fact that Hampton was the only school to offer me any money, I went to a primarily white school. I needed to be around more people like myself. Also, I needed to see more smart, beautiful, and successful Black women.
Why not go to a black college? I have lived in California all of my life. One of the most diverse states out there. I live close to UC Berkely so I see people of different racial backgrounds every day. Even at school! Im going to a HBCU to get back to my"roots" or whatever. I need to see how my people live and how we do it!!! Plus its motivation for me to see so many blacks on the right track.
I don't know why I wan't to go to an all black school.....but I think theres something about living in the suburbs and going to a pre. dom. white school that makes you wanna experience something different.......at least its that way for me
The next step in my development as a true advocate for the black community is to further my own education. My journey to Howard University next year will be a special one. I chose a historically black university because I know that I will never completely know and understand who I am as a person unless I know where I come from. For me, Howard University is the Mecca of black education; the mother of all intelligentsia. And who should go through life without ever seeing the face of their mother? Howard is such a beautiful and diverse place that admiration from afar simply will not do. I’m sure that once I’ve seen the familiar struggle of my ancestors, the bigger themes in life-peace, harmony, soul, co-existence, and love – will come into focus. I want to learn as much as I can about myself so that, as an adult, I can help people come together. I am interested in politics and the history of humanity, and the black community is where life began and where some of the world’s greatest challenges are located. It’s imperative for me to know what’s going on so that I can aide in positive progression. I have lived a privileged life, and the older I get, the more I want to give something back to whatever cosmic force it was that gave me so much- not out a sense of guilt or requirement, but out of gratitude. We learn by seeing new things, and if I can learn even one thing at the Mecca (Howard University) that can help me live a better life, it will be a rewarding and essential experience.
This is why I chose an hbcu. Like many accomplished black leaders, not only do I want to have a strong sense of whom I am, but I also want to be a citizen of the world. I want to see people for what draws them together-not what divides them. As an African American male, I am acutely sensitive to discrimination and racial prejudice and understand how they can undermine the importance of human connection. With this in mind, I believe that I can bring passion, conviction, and life experience to the world. I also would share my belief that the celebration of our differences as people should be an ideal that we understand as well as a principle that we live by and work to achieve.
That was deeP ^ Thats eXactaly whY i want to go to Howard :-) Great minds think alike aha!
Ichose to attend Howard instead of Temple because of the black experience. I live in CT and honestly I'm black and dont know much about our history and stuff and I'm kinda embarrassed. I wanted to be around people like me with the same interest also.
I will be attending an HBCU b/c I have went to an all-white school and lived in an all white community my whole life. I picked Spelman when I was in the 6th grade b/c it was so appealing. I went on a tour the summer after my junior year and fell in love with the school. The confidence, sophstication, pride, and reputation drew me in. I can't wait to be surrounded by empowered, intelligent, confident black women like myself!
First and foremost, I am extremely glad that I joined this forum. I never knew how many individuals were going through some of the same admission decisions about whether to attend a PWI or an HBCU. I've gotten the chance to attend a white middle school in which I excelled, but after those 3 years I wanted out, and took my **** to a predominantly black high school in which I also excelled. It did not matter what type of environment I was in to achieve at my maximum potential but it did matter about which I was more comfortable in. I even left behind most of my childhood friends who weren't brave enough to step out of that box and get past the stereotype that only white institutes of higher learning are the only acceptable ones in society. This is the same situation that I am presented with today. Only four students out of my high school were accepted into Stanford University and even fewer were accepted into the real Ivy leagues. But I am one out of those four who are going to turn Stanford down and attend Howard University in the fall, because unlike them, I believe that a degree from Howard is just as good if not better than a degree from Stanford. I would not be able to tolerate being the only African-American in a classroom and when I ask a question, I don't want all heads to turn to see what the "black kid" has to say. I'd rather be in an environment that is diverse in a different way with African-Americans from all over the nation who wants to do something positive with their lives instead of the under-achievers in my city and throughout Los Angeles. For weeks I've been contemplating this decision over and over, mainly because of what everyone else thinks like my college advisor or my "whitewashed" scholars at school who have such a disgusted look on their face when I say I'm going to a black college. I've finally learned how to follow my heart which has led me to the great Mecca itself and I know that I have made the right decision. I just tell everyone else that I always have graduate school and they get off my back a little. So when people ask me "why are you going to a black school" I say because I want to be with my people and learn amongst others who look like me, dress like me, and have the same interests as me. Undergrad at an HBCU will shape me for the rest of my life as I learn more about myself instead of losing sight into who I really am.
Danielle
Class of '09
Howard University
Carson, CALI
