What's So Great About HBCU's Anyway?
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Started by venom3384
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Apr 2005
venom3384
Main City, CA
This is my question. I hear all kind of people lauding the HBCU experience and seem utterly enraptured with the idea that they will be able to spend the four years of their undergraduate experience with people who share their same ethnic background. 1st question: Is this at all representative of real life? From my personal experience I have found that we, or at least in the upwardly socio-economic realm that you high achieving and socially conscious African-American (predominantly) hope to take part in, live in a white world. How will an HBCU where you will be surrounded by people like you and taught be professors like you be at all representative of real life? Or at least the one you hope to be living?
My 2nd question involves personal and academic preference. I have been accepted into a number of Universities and can go anywhere I want. So what would make me want to attend a HBCU rather than a more traditional Ivy League school or one of its equivalents when my goals is to become as educated as possible and subsequently be the most qualified for any future position or work that I would like to pursue. Furthermore, how diverse can an HBCU be and how much can you learn about other cultures/environments when you are surrounded my only one megaculture?
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hmm lemme see whas so great about hbcus??????
-family(ivy league schools dont care about u as a person they jus want u for numbers)
-academics(u can get the same education from howard that u can get from harvard)
fun-(picture having fun and chillin' wit ivy league brat)
and jus being around people tha tyou know u can have a great college experience with. everywhere u go will be diversified. at an ivy league school all you gonna meet is smart uptight brats and all they wanna do is be betta than you. so we live in a white world..........that doesnt mean we have to spend OUR college experience co-existing unhappily with them. trust me it is better to go where you are happy then to go where u are miserable. look at the statistics people that go to ivy league schools are miserable they go through so much stress and hard work that education becomes a strain rather than beneficial. but if u think u as a black woman would be more happy at an ivy league school than by all means go. if u wanna spend college being surrounded by geeks than go. if u wanna spend college being a NUMBER than go. but nothin can top the experience of an hbcu...nothing can beat chillin on the yard...nothing can beat goin to a real greek party...nothing can beat chillin in a student center where everybody isnt studying all the time......nothin can beat goin to a probate.....nothing can beat being around your people college doesnt have to all be about getting ahead and being the best at everything. it can be about building friendships too. it can be about having fun too. and at a hbcu (HOWARD) u can get the best of both worlds. or u can go to an ivy and be anotha geek. nothing can beat an HBCU
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What's so good about it?
Black people, together, trying to do something good with their lives.
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venom3384 wrote:This is my question. I hear all kind of people lauding the HBCU experience and seem utterly enraptured with the idea that they will be able to spend the four years of their undergraduate experience with people who share their same ethnic background. 1st question: Is this at all representative of real life? From my personal experience I have found that we, or at least in the upwardly socio-economic realm that you high achieving and socially conscious African-American (predominantly) hope to take part in, live in a white world. How will an HBCU where you will be surrounded by people like you and taught be professors like you be at all representative of real life? Or at least the one you hope to be living? My 2nd question involves personal and academic preference. I have been accepted into a number of Universities and can go anywhere I want. So what would make me want to attend a HBCU rather than a more traditional Ivy League school or one of its equivalents when my goals is to become as educated as possible and subsequently be the most qualified for any future position or work that I would like to pursue. Furthermore, how diverse can an HBCU be and how much can you learn about other cultures/environments when you are surrounded my only one megaculture?
