What are you planning on majoring in? I would pick Spelman because there is a lot to do in Atlanta when you are not doing your schoolwork and you can get some really good internships in Atlanta depending on your major which could eventually lead to a job. Hampton, there's not as many job internships/opportunities there.
amander wrote: ok... didn't expect yall to jump down my throat at me sayin hampton being a bigger name school than spelman, lol
Miss_404 wrote: Hampton is a bigger name school than Spelman? When did that happen? :???:
lol, who's from the South? I was born and raised in PG County, Maryland and I didn't hear about Hampton until well into high school.
What undergrad school you go to definitely has VERY LITTLE impact. Unless your talking about an Ivy Leaugue school, most employers really don't care what school you went to as long as its accredited and you did well. But even if it did, guess what, odds are the person interviewing you is gonna be white, so whether it says Hampton or Spelman, the only thing that's gonna be in their mind is that you went to an HBCU and in most of their minds, all HBCUs are the same.
And when you get out in the working world, you'll realize that no two people are ever equally qualified for a job. Someone always has an edge. No one has the same everything. Even if the people are the same on paper, someone will perform better on the interview or assesment or whatever. I'm not saying school name doesn't matter at all, I'm saying that IT IS VERY RARELY the deciding factor on who gets the job.
Plus with Spelman, you not only have access to the other AUC schools (Morehouse and Clark-Atlanta), you can do joint programs with Georgia Tech and Georgia State as well. And Emory University is right there as well. So as far academic opportunities, Atlanta, GA has Hampton, VA beat :grin:
DeepThought2003 wrote: amander wrote: ok... didn't expect yall to jump down my throat at me sayin hampton being a bigger name school than spelman, lol
Miss_404 wrote: Hampton is a bigger name school than Spelman? When did that happen? :???:
lol, who's from the South?
MISS 404. NOTICE THE QUOTE WITH HER NAME IN IT???I was born and raised in PG County, Maryland and I didn't hear about Hampton until well into high school.
well... that's PG for ya...
What undergrad school you go to definitely has VERY LITTLE impact.
didn't i say that? thanks for reading. Unless your talking about an Ivy Leaugue school, most employers really don't care what school you went to as long as its accredited and you did well. But even if it did, guess what, odds are the person interviewing you is gonna be white, so whether it says Hampton or Spelman, the only thing that's gonna be in their mind is that you went to an HBCU and in most of their minds, all HBCUs are the same.
And when you get out in the working world, you'll realize that no two people are ever equally qualified for a job. Someone always has an edge. No one has the same everything. Even if the people are the same on paper, someone will perform better on the interview or assesment or whatever. I'm not saying school name doesn't matter at all, I'm saying that IT IS VERY RARELY the deciding factor on who gets the job.
i ... definitely kinda said that.
Plus with Spelman, you not only have access to the other AUC schools (Morehouse and Clark-Atlanta), you can do joint programs with Georgia Tech and Georgia State as well. And Emory University is right there as well. So as far academic opportunities, Atlanta, GA has Hampton, VA beat :grin:
nice points. but since when was this a contest between the city of atlanta and the city of hampton? i was talking about the school. stay focused.
amander wrote: ahh, i love it when people don't read.
I was simply saying that what school you go to has very little impact, you were saying I said it had none, which is not the case.
I wasn't comparing Atlanta and Hampton. I was talking about Spelman and the other schools that are connected to it academically.
lol, you were the one that started off by saying Hampton was a bigger name school and coming with absolutely nothing to back that up. Differences of opinion are great, but always come with something to support that opinion.
I will give you this, Hampton is a bigger school that Spelman in terms of campus size, student body/faculty size, and the number of majors and stuff you have to choose from (it is a university), but as far as in name or name recognition, that one's definitely up to debate.
Thanks a lot yall...Well im going to Spelbound next week since I've already been to Hampton....So I wont be going to highschool day, I'll update from there. But thanks a lot
lol @ AMANDER's E-gangsta
but anyway best of luck wit ur visits that should clarify it for you
...really just hear for the post since it said hampton
and i'd hafta say SPELMAN is definately more known than Hampton..and i'm a military brat so i can reflect from being all over the country
i first found out about both from a different world lol
Hey I think you should go to the school that you feel benefits you as a person; I go to Morehouse and I have a bias opinion because Spelman is one of Morehouse's sister schools and we do EVERYTHING together. But in the end, no one's opinion will matter..it's all up on you and which environment or school will get you to where you want to go...letting other people decided for you will cause you not to have a choice and make you miserable in the end....what other schools are you looking at? I hope all goes well with your selection...
giniacuty_757 wrote: unless you arent straight why go be around a bunch of females All the time?
What kind of an ignorant comment is that? So every girl who wants to go to Spelman and does go must be a lesbian or have lesbian tendencies right? I hate when people always bring up the fact that Spelman is an all girls school as a negative thing. Obviously if you think its that serious, you've never been there. We are not constantly surrounded by nothing but girls. There are males on campus all day and we have visitation in the evenings and on the weekends.
