HOW DID U END UP AT YOUR CURRENT SCHOOL?
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Started by Magnolia Steele
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May 2004
QUESTION. HOW DID U END UP AT UR CURRENT SCHOOL... DID U ALWAYS WANT TO GO THERE OR WAS IT BY CIRCUMSTANCES...
ME BEFORE LAST JANUARY... I NEVER EVER CONSIDERED AN HBCU... AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED. I WAS GOING TO BE A UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL PLAYER AND GO TO SCHOOL THERE. EITHER THERE OR POTENTIALLY CLEMSON. I HAD COMMITTED TO USM BEFORE THAT. WELL SH!T FELL APART AND THE COACH WHO RECRUITED ME GOT FIRED... IT WAS EITHER DELTA STATE.. A FEW POTENTIAL MORE SMALL PWC'S OR A JUNIOR COLLEGE... WELL A FEW WEEKS LATER JACKSON STATE CALLED AND OFFERED ME A FULL SCHOLARSHIP.... MY DAD WENT TO JACKSON STATE SO I LOOKED INTO EM.. TOOK A RECRUIT TRIP AND IT WAS OK. MISSISSIPPI STATE CALLED LIKE A WEEK BEFORE SIGNING DAY WAS LIKE WHY DON'T YOU WAIT ONE WEEK AFTER SIGNING DAY AND IF WE DO NOT SIGN THIS OTHER PLAYER, WE ARE GOING TO SIGN YOU. I WAS LIKE THAT IS TOO RISKY.. BECAUSE IF I WAIT AND THEY DON;T SIGN ME.. I AM STUCK LIKE CHUCK.... SO I WENT AHEAD AND SIGNED WITH JSU...
(I STILL WISH I WAS AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISS)... I LIKE DIVERSITY..
#41
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Well, before I went to the Howard Hughes Program at Spelman before my senior year in high school, I wanted to go to Harvard or Yale.However, after the summer, I only wanted to go to a HBCU because of the experience I had, and Spelman was my first choice.
So, when school started I applied early action to three schools; Spelman, Howard, and Hampton
I received acceptance letters to all three schools 
. Hampton was the only one to send a scholarship w/ application(Presidential), but I wanted to go to Spelman.
By spring this year, I had received both a scholarship to Howard and Hampton, but not to Spelman :cry: . I became upset because I knew my heart was with Spelman, and that being there felt more like a second home than just a school. So, at Spelbound, I talked with the admissions director, and she told me that if anybody turned back in their scholarship, I would get one because I was a finalist for the Dean's Scholarship, but they only give a selected few out.
Luckily, around the next week I received a letter saying I received a scholarship :lol: , but I only thought it was for loans, and I didn't pay attention to the paper. Later, my mother found it and brought it to my attention. I was elated, but my mother still told me it was not enough, and I was again getting discourage :cry: .
However, around the next couple of weeks, outside scholarships started coming my way, and eventually Spelman sent me another letter saying I received even more money 
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So, now I am going to be a future Spelmanite, and I am so very happy because their is no other school that will make me as happy as I am being at Spelman College.
I also just want to say to future high school seniors, never give up on the college of your choice, because with determination and prayer, anything is possible. :wink:
GO SPELMAN JAGUARS!!!!
. Hampton was the only one to send a scholarship w/ application(Presidential), but I wanted to go to Spelman.
By spring this year, I had received both a scholarship to Howard and Hampton, but not to Spelman :cry: . I became upset because I knew my heart was with Spelman, and that being there felt more like a second home than just a school. So, at Spelbound, I talked with the admissions director, and she told me that if anybody turned back in their scholarship, I would get one because I was a finalist for the Dean's Scholarship, but they only give a selected few out.
Luckily, around the next week I received a letter saying I received a scholarship :lol: , but I only thought it was for loans, and I didn't pay attention to the paper. Later, my mother found it and brought it to my attention. I was elated, but my mother still told me it was not enough, and I was again getting discourage :cry: .
However, around the next couple of weeks, outside scholarships started coming my way, and eventually Spelman sent me another letter saying I received even more money .
So, now I am going to be a future Spelmanite, and I am so very happy because their is no other school that will make me as happy as I am being at Spelman College.
I also just want to say to future high school seniors, never give up on the college of your choice, because with determination and prayer, anything is possible. :wink:
GO SPELMAN JAGUARS!!!!
#42
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I became a tiger after getting tired of being @ a huge school
Michigan State like 40,000+
No one on one
And i always wanted 2 g2 a hbcu
I was tired of the east coast
Thought the south would be cool
So it came down 2 Southern a&m & Jackson State
I had a couple of people close 2 Jsu
Plus my highschool was a big band school
So i knew about Jstate
So that is that last june i moved to jackson
Aug 2003 i became a student thas that
I wanted to attend Tulane but 36,000 you do the math
#43
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I was watchin Elimidate in New Orleans and thought i should come on down
#44
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I was looking for the **** store, and took a wrong turn onto Hampton's campus. Dayum Mapquest!
No, seriously, mainly recommendations of friends & family. I honestly didn't know too much about Hampton until I got here, and I like what I saw.
Holla!
#45
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At first, I was planning on going to this very big white school in the south (they were the #1 team in college football) and I got accepted, but because they werent offering me any money, and that it was so far away from home... I decided to go elsewhere. A lot of people in my family, and friends of the family recommended Smith to me and said that it was a good school. Hell it was only 6 hours away, it was black college in a major city, and they were offering me some money... And thats how I ended up going to Smith.
And thats how I ended up going to Smith.
#46
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I was tricked into it by outside forces!!!! But on the real I really don't know. I never thought about Morehouse.....never ever. It wasn't until my senior year that an alumnus from Morehouse came to my school and talked to a group of us that I even considered......then my teachers and stuff started pushing me to give it a shot, so I finally sent in an app, and got accepted......I can't see myself anywhere else now.
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well let me tell my loooonnng story...those who have been on here awhile know that I have switched colleges more than once!
I visited Hampton my 10th grade year when I was on vacation with my fam...I didn't know anything about HU before that except that it was a black college...but after I visited, I loved it!
Fast forward to my senior year...me and my UB advisor kept arguing about the Hampton essay and I applied to seven other schools and got accepted (just because I could) and TSU was the first school to accept me and I didn't think I was gonna get any money from HU so I started doin research on TSU and said I was going there...
well in March TSU sent me a letter saying they ran out of money to give me an out of state scholarship...
then Grambling sent me a letter promising a out of state scholarship...so I said I was going there...
long story short...after I had forgotten about Hampton they accepted me May 28 and then just a few days ago I decided to go there...I loved the atmosphere at Hampton when I visited...I can deal wit the curfews and dress code but I love that school!
Just so happens I was visiting said university, on a tour this random man asks if anyone is going tobe an engineering major....I raised my hand and he said well hell come with me. So, I signed up for this summer program where I'd take classes and have everything paid for plus I'd have a scholarship for the next 2 years so I wouldnt have to pay out of state fees.....I was sold. Bottom line? Money.
