<p>I don’t have a collegeconfidential account, but my older sis has stopped using hers so said i could have it. So…</p>
<p>I’m currently considering some historically black universities. Can anyone recommend good ones. Also I’m female so no all male one’s please. My bf is considering Morehouse(all male) and suggest that i look into the female school across the street Spelman. I’m not sure how i feel about an all female school though. So can someone please suggest other schools that him and I could attend together. Thanks in advance for the help. Could someone also list pro’s and con’s of attending a hbcu.</p>
<p>Maybe you should just register your own CC account so that, if people look at your sister's old posts, people will not think you are lying about something or having conflicting information. Just a helpful suggestion. :P</p>
<p>I know nothing on HBCUs. Sorry!</p>
<p>How about Howard U?</p>
<p>what would people think i'm lying about? or why would i have conflicting posts?...i'm not creating my own account because 1. i don't have many intentions of spending my life on this site, and will only be on here long enough to get the info i need and 2. if someone wants to look at all of my sisters old posts they must have alot of time on their hands.</p>
<p>i thought about howard, but they have very strict dorm rules. i know, silly reason not to like a school, but if i'm going to college with my bf and I can't have my bf spend the night every once in a while the school has rules that are too strict.</p>
<p>"they have very strict dorm rules."</p>
<p>Which dorm is that?....Not the way I remember it , but you didn't hear that from me......</p>
<p>Oh yeah; "The Quad"? I lived in Meridian.</p>
<p>Without casting any doubt on your relationship, I'd be cautious about limiting yourself too much because of it.</p>
<p>oh you attended there. well from their website they make it seem like they have strict rules about males and females sleeping in the same room. is this not true?</p>
<p>I was there in the seventies, and I again , I lived in Meridian which was co-ed, but looking back I WISH there were a few more disincentives in place. OMG.</p>
<p>want to be more specific lol?</p>
<p>oh come on at least send me a pm...college is a very important choice in any young persons life and the social aspect is just as important as the academic.</p>
<p>I do remember Drew Hall was nicknamed "something-that-ryhmed-with-Drew" Hall. I can also say it was the most life-changing experiences in my life, in a good way. I'll have to think about my answer more deeply when I get my mind out of the gutter.</p>
<p>ok get the point.thanks.lol</p>
<p>shrinkrap: what is your overall opinions on hbcu's i'm curious. i currently attend a prep school because its a "family tradition" the school is 90% white. how do you think i'd adjust at an hbcu?</p>
<p>Well, I am sad to say my D did not feel all that comfortable after a tour at Spelman. I really wanted her to want that experience, but she just didn't "get it". She has spent her whole life in an environment that may be similar to yours ( but a small Chrisitan school, not at all "preppy"), and on West Coast where I think money matters more than race.I think she needs to take it a little slower.</p>
<p>I grew up in a Black middle class neighborhood, attended pretty diverse HS in New York,and had lots of cultural opportunities but nothing prepared me for the emporement I felt at Howard and in DC. I visited my sister there during homecoming when I was a senior, came home, cut off my permed hair for a "TWA" ( teeny weeny afro), packed my bags and essentially dropped out of HS to enroll at Howard. ( I guees I had what I need to graduate...NY schools were so crowded then you couldn't even get a seat on the "radiator" ( I've haven't seen one since leaving) if you didn't hurry.</p>
<p>hmm...i guess i should make some visits then because i'm not sure how i'd feel about howard or spelman. i hate saying this but are they "ghetto" or do people generally carry themselves with more pride then sagging pants.etc.my environment sounds similar to your daughter's. at my school race isn't important but about 7%of the students are black. mostly everybody acts preppy because it is a prep school and whites, blacks, etc all have money because my school doesn't offer the "best" financial aid to its students.</p>
<p>I haven't been in a few years but go to a Howard homecoming if you can. It will blow your mind! You will weep. There will be all kinds of people. FWIW, the white kids where I live are more "ghetto" then my kids, although my son manages to carry himself with both pride AND ( very expensive) baggy pants.</p>
<p>ok thanks for all the help. i'll try to go to their next homecoming to see if it is a fit for me or not. i just don't know. i feel like i belong at a school that is majority white. while my bf spent his entire life at majority white schools as well and feels its time for a change. i feel that us being apart would be too much. he is considering some of my schools too, but really wants an hbcu. i guess i'll just have to see how it goes.</p>