My mistake, I pulled the stats from here:
http://www.ir.fsu.edu/Factbooks/2015-16/Students.pdf
but didn’t read it thoroughly - black students make up 26% of the minority students, most of them being hispanic.
I’m not sure what difference it makes though. Does UF have a higher percentage of black students? Both schools pull from the same population. Is the underepresentation only an FSU concern or is it a higher education concern overall? And I still don’t understand how being in the same town as an HCBU makes FSU an “uncomfortable reminder”. That would be an issue for any university located near an HCBU anywhere in the US. At the same time that FSU was a white only school it was also women only. UF (I believe) was the men’s college. Does that make UF an unfortunate reminder of the inequality of the sexes?
None of that matters to the OP though. I wish your daughter good luck with her choice! I have over five years experience as an FSU parent and only have good things to say about the school and the area. There are a lot of very educated people in this town what with the colleges (there’s a highly ranked community college here also) and the state government. Every day I see license plates from all over the U.S. I can’t speak to South Carolina but I have some experience at Arizona and it seemed like a very tolerant, welcoming environment also. I don’t know which is worse in the summer though - the 100 degrees with almost 100% humidity in Tallahassee or the 115 degree “dry” heat in Tucson!