<p>Why do they have such a poor reputation among high schoolers?</p>
<p>Because most of them are poor academically, and most high schoolers who go to college don’t really belong in them.</p>
<p>^What he said.</p>
<p>Care to explain what a HBCU is?</p>
<p>^ Historically Black College and University. </p>
<p>My parents want me to go to one, I said HELL NO.</p>
<p>It’s a place for black egotists to get a lackluster education.</p>
<p>My dad wanted me to go to Albany State like he did. Once I looked at the numbers, I said the same thing.</p>
<p>When I have the ability and opportunity to go to a place like my username, and places like VTech, why would I go lower?</p>
<p>Spelman and Morehouse are pretty decent, but IDK about the rest.</p>
<p>^I think Howard is the best one…and then that’s it…lol. Also a lot of these colleges are in bad neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Yeah, Howard is pretty good. I looked up admissions requirements at Albany State, and the min. GPA is a 2.22. A 2.22?!</p>
<p>Because too many high school students are not socially aware enough to appreciate democratized access to higher education, or to respect the role certain institutions have had in promoting this. HBCUs aren’t Ivies or highly ranked necessarily, but not everyone is a genius or has had great opportunities in their lives. Moreover, some people want to attend college with members of their own community with whom they share common life experiences, and still others care about the history of their university and what it stands for.</p>
<p>Very true.</p>
<p>Hey many HBCUs are still reputable universities. Just because hey don’t appeal to CCERs doesn’t mean they aren’t good unis.
As we all know, people on CC, excluding me , are pretty much brilliant.</p>
<p>You can exclude me as well.</p>
<p>There’s not a lot of diversity.</p>
<p>True. Morehouse had their first white val like 3 years ago. He’s pretty hot too.</p>
<p>My father, sister, and her mother went to Tuskegee. My brother and grandfather went to Howard, my brother for both his bachelor’s and master’s and my grandfather for just his bachelor’s (GW for master’s). My aunt and great-great grandmother went to Hampton. One of my second cousins went to Morehouse, after being educated at DC’s top private schools, thoroughly upsetting his mother. My sister briefly considered Spelman, but she didn’t apply.</p>
<p>I didn’t look into one. Though I’m sure one can receive a quality education, they weren’t really the type of schools at which I was looking, and a lack of a racial majority is very attractive to me in a college.</p>
<p>Oh please, cut the political correctness. Most HBCUs have SAT score averages so low that few of their students would be eligible to apply to real universities because they wouldn’t meet the English proficiency requirement–not even for international students! How does an institution provide any kind of quality education when their incoming students can’t do basic algebra, read, or write?</p>
<p>My mom taught at an HBCU; one of her colleagues came to her and said that he saw the instructor of an upper-level computer science course give out the answers to the final exam during the final exam! My mom told him that if he reported it, he wouldn’t be back the next year. Sure enough, he reported it, and he was not back the next year.</p>
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<p>If a college or university fundamentally does not provide the level of instruction inherent in that designation, it should be called something else.</p>
<p>I swallowed my irritation and didn’t post what i was going to say. Exercise restraint.</p>
<p>LOOOOOOOL and nobody mentioned me yet?! haha.</p>
<p>My cousin went to Howard…then she went to princeton for grad school & now she currently works in D.C. in some govt dept (cant remember which one) under senator hillary clinton! Apparently she writes/prepares stuff for her!</p>
<p>I’m going to visit Howard, along w/ a couple of other schools in the area to see if I’d like it next week! :)</p>
<p>I think Howard & Hampton are the only REALLY good HBCUs out there.</p>
<p>@aigiqinf: My SAT scores aren’t very low! 
and many HBCU students don’t have low scores…unless if you count the random never- heard of -them- before ones…</p>