I got into Stanford, Howard, Hampton, Spelmen, and FAMU.....

HU_Intellect wrote:

Drama_King wrote:

HbCU's are probaly a littel overrated and to be honest if you graduate from an hbcu people employers will see you as black all the time..thats the sad truth. I believe you should head to Stanford and get ya PAC on cause it isnt a Ivy League. The networking there is way more respected than any HBCU sadly. Hope you got ya mind right ma, and good luck.

That is so silly. People are gonna see you as black all the time wheter you graduate from Harvard or Howard. Believe me I know you have ready made your choice by now because the deadline has passed but I hope you chose a HBCU. Like I said I was excepted into many top name PWI's but when it comes down to it you are gonna benefit more at an HBCU!

JayDeezy wrote:

First things first . . . Spell Stanford correctly, enough of this "Standford" crap. Bottom line, Spelman, Howard, and Hampton, are just as good if not better than Stanford. You'll be treated as a young, intellectual, black woman at those schools, whereas at Stanford, you're a statistic, and the networking is phenomenal. Whoever said that hbcu networking is not that of a school like Stanford obviously doesn't go to a school like Morehouse, Spelman, Howard, Hampton, or FAMU, cause if they did, they would realize that our networks are just as powerful as those of Stanford, being able to claim prominent alumni such as Maynard Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, Debbie Allen, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King Jr, Phylicia Rashad, Lerone Bennett Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, Toni Morrison, and countless others. Spit a BLACK alumni list like that for me from Stanford and maybe I can hear you out . . . 'til then, keep it all in the fam, and head to a school like Howard, Spelman, or Hampton where not only will they nurture your intellect, but help and allow you to grow into a strong black woman. Stanford is just that . . . a name . . . When you get to corporate America, politics, medicine, or wherever you want to go, you will realize that your degree only helps, YOU make it happen, and a school like Stanford never changes the fact that your black. Quit listening to all these lame @$$ **** tellin you to go to Stanford cause it's Stanford. I go to Morehouse and I got into Yale, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, and NYU, and please believe I don't regret my choice cause I have family that went to all of the above schools, and I know that Morehouse will get me just as far if not further than any of those institutions because our alumni care about how well I do in life more than any white alum from another school ever will . . . Sleep on it . . . Holla . . .

CamDeezy wrote:

I disagree. I say, go to the school that gives you the most money. All are excellent institutions. So, I don't understand why people are telling you to just go to Stanford. It implies that the HBCU's that you also got accepted into offer a sub-par education. Just because The US World News & Report ranks them very highly and the HBCUs low means nothing (they are biased against HBCUs). Also, if one student graduates with a 2.7 GPA at Stanford (not saying that you would) and a 3.9 at Howard, I think that the Howard student will get the better job or into that IVY LEGUE graduate school. Also, Stanford costs maybe $32,000+, with costs rising each year. Stanford is a lot farther than the rest of the schools. If Stanford costs the lowest cost for YOU, then attend. But go where it is the cheapest, since they are all great schools for a Black student like yourself.