Fourteen-year-old Whiz Kid Picks HBCU Over Harvard
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Started by klg14
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Jun 2008
First off morehouse and havard aren't even on the same scale.lol. One is a liberal arts school and one is a research university. I'm sorry akeem but to say all universities are "equal" is just dumb. No matter how much you want that to be true its not. Those rankings aren't wrong. I'm sure you are smart enough to realize that you have to combine all of those characteristics for them to come up with the rankings. They aren't just going to say 'oh look at southern what great alumni contributions lets place them at the top' ****. It is a COMBINATION. That isn't a stupid reason to rank a school. If alumni aren't supporting a school there is probably a reason. If you think saying another school is better than southern is putting it down you need a reality check. There will always be schools that are better than others its part of life. I guess you think all students are equally smart as well.lol. The morehouse harvard comparison is just dumb. Like I said morehouse=lac harvard=research university. If I was a guy I'd pick morehouse over harvard. BUT i'd also pick morehouse over southern. Like I said I value the idea of an hbcu experience, but there are better hbcu's. I've never met someone who denied that some schools are better than others. What I most often here is that the social experience is better, or the school is more well rounded. My top choice school is Spelman, but my mom wants it to be Columbia. I realize that Columbia has a higher endowment, better aid, and more course offerings etc. Yet, I'm picking the school that will give me the more well rounded experience. Even if I do think Columbia is probably the better school, I'd be happier at Spelman. That doesn't mean I need to live in a little fantasy world about which school is truly academically seen as superior. And I'm not just saying it is better because it is a pwi. My dad wants me to attend Valpo because that is where he went. Yet I'm well aware that Spelman is the better school than Valpo, and on top of that I don't believe I'd enjoy Valpo's social experience in a small slightly racist town.
Orca51 wrote:First off morehouse and havard aren't even on the same scale.lol. One is a liberal arts school and one is a research university. I'm sorry akeem but to say all universities are "equal" is just dumb. No matter how much you want that to be true its not. Those rankings aren't wrong. I'm sure you are smart enough to realize that you have to combine all of those characteristics for them to come up with the rankings. They aren't just going to say 'oh look at southern what great alumni contributions lets place them at the top' ****. It is a COMBINATION. That isn't a stupid reason to rank a school. If alumni aren't supporting a school there is probably a reason. If you think saying another school is better than southern is putting it down you need a reality check. There will always be schools that are better than others its part of life. I guess you think all students are equally smart as well.lol. The morehouse harvard comparison is just dumb. Like I said morehouse=lac harvard=research university. If I was a guy I'd pick morehouse over harvard. BUT i'd also pick morehouse over southern. Like I said I value the idea of an hbcu experience, but there are better hbcu's.
