Any advice for racial diverse target school?

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<p>it seems like everyone is avoiding hbcu schools, it would be a perfect fit…florida a & m howard, spelman, etc… but everyone keeps pointing to white hippie schools. are you implying that hbcu are not up to par. if she is looking for a school of color…why send her in the wrong direction?</p>

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<p>Because those are about as racially diverse as the University of Maine. It’s just that the dominant races are different. Oh and in what universe is Oxford of Emory a hippy school?</p>

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<p>when when …I see mt holyoke, smith,wesleyan etc…</p>

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<p><a href=“E”>quote</a>veryone keeps pointing to white hippie schools. are you implying that hbcu are not up to par.

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<p>Inconvenient fact - even the best HBCUs have frighteningly low test scores. Even the best of them, Howard and Spelman, don’t have many attendees with top test scores like the OPs, they apparently choose to go to better schools.</p>

<p>[Howard</a> University - GPA, SAT Scores and ACT Scores Needed for Admission](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/howard-university-admission-gpa-sat-act.htm]Howard”>Howard University: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores, GPA)
[Spelman</a> College - GPA and Test Scores Needed for Admission](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/spelman-college-admission-gpa-sat-act.htm]Spelman”>Spelman College: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores, GPA)</p>

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<p>Has your daughter looked at American University in DC? It is the right size and has a large International contingent, and it would be a low match/safety for your daughter. My son recently graduated from AU and he has friends in a rainbow of colors from all over the world.</p>

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<p>@zobroward</p>

<p>She’s looking for racial diversity, not just lots of black people. HBCU’s are generally less diverse than say Washington and Lee. Diversity means just that, it doesn’t mean “no white people”</p>

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<p>Florida A&M and Howard are too big (OP mentioned <5,000 students). Many of the HBUs also have a more pre-professional emphasis than a liberal arts emphasis that the OP mentioned.</p>

<p>Spelman probably fulfills the OP’s stated criteria if any composition with >= 25% students of color (i.e. <= 75% white) is ok (as opposed to diversity beyond black students). However, the OP has not mentioned cost or financial aid constraints, and Spelman does not appear to have very good financial aid (low percentage of need met, high student debt at graduation) and is not one of the full tuition or full ride scholarship schools (like Howard, Florida A&M, Prairie View A&M, etc.).</p>

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<p>Re: #24</p>

<p>Howard and Spelman have rather different looking admissions profiles. Spelman reports a higher HS GPA, although different schools may report HS GPA differently (some may report unweighted; others may report weighted as evidenced by HS GPA > 4.0 at some schools). Both have low test scores at the 25th percentile, but Howard has much higher test scores at the 75th percentile (perhaps the full rides Howard offers to top students has an effect here).</p>

<p>[Howard</a> University Admissions Information - CollegeData College Profile](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1024]Howard”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1024)
[Spelman</a> College Admissions Information - CollegeData College Profile](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1659]Spelman”>Spelman College Acceptance Rate | CollegeData)</p>

<p>But note that black students’ tendency to score lower on standardized tests may in part be due to stereotype threat, as described here:
[Racial</a> Identity and Academic Achievement : Stereotype Threat](<a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning)
<a href=“http://mrnas.pbworks.com/f/claude+steele+stereotype+threat+1995.pdf[/url]”>http://mrnas.pbworks.com/f/claude+steele+stereotype+threat+1995.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Stereotype threat? Really? That’s your excuse? </p>

<p>That’s very, very questionable “science”.</p>

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<p>Questionable because you believe that it cannot be true?</p>

<p>It isn’t just black students who have been found to be vulnerable to stereotype threat.</p>

<p><a href=“Opinion | Intelligence and the Stereotype Threat - The New York Times”>Opinion | Intelligence and the Stereotype Threat - The New York Times;

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<p>More:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.arizona.edu/sites/arizona.edu/files/users/user14/Stereotype%20Threat%20in%20the%20Academy.pdf[/url]”>http://www.arizona.edu/sites/arizona.edu/files/users/user14/Stereotype%20Threat%20in%20the%20Academy.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.arizona.edu/sites/arizona.edu/files/users/user14/Stereotype%20Threat%20Overview.pdf[/url]”>http://www.arizona.edu/sites/arizona.edu/files/users/user14/Stereotype%20Threat%20Overview.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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<p>Try reading the criticism section of the Wikipedia entry. </p>

<p>[Stereotype</a> threat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat]Stereotype”>Stereotype threat - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Stereotype threat is to liberals what creation science is to conservatives - a preexisting viewpoint wrapped up in science to justify a political position.</p>