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I noticed that many of the top HBCUs (howard, morehouse, spelman, famu, et al) are actively recruited by top/elite firms in their respective industries. In retrospect, I would've applied to these schools.</p>
<p>Any info on U of West FL? Someone asked me about it and I never heard of it. She's from So FL and wanted a change of seasons.</p>
<p>I am sure that on this board especially, people will want to shoot me for this but I think that HBCU's are recruted heavily fmuch for polotical and PC reasons. Flame away if you want!</p>
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Right. It's not very hard to figure out that many of these firms recruit there because they want to diversify their workforce and because they are top-caliber students. What place is better to recruit than an institution that mainly consists of students who all share a common trait? The thing is, if all that ever happened is that they kept hiring incompetent graduates, recruiting at the respective school would cease. I seriously doubt Bulge Bracket investment banks would continue to hire Morehouse students for their Sales & Trading division (one of the most competitive areas) if they were incapable of performing.</p>
<p>Check this out: <a href="http://www.morehouse.edu/Intranet/careerservices_bus/Business_Services/Students.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.morehouse.edu/Intranet/careerservices_bus/Business_Services/Students.html</a></p>
<p>Holey Cow, you mean to tell me that a college has successful alum?</p>
<p>Blah blah, I know i am a hater for pointing out the obvious because the obcious is not PC. The bottom line is that if companies recruit more at these schools than other schools of similar calliber, it is to fill a quota. Period. The fact that the students that are recruited are successful has nothing to do with it, I am sure that on a peercentage basis, there are students at other less recruited achools that do just as well. Successful students are merely a good concequence and-dare i say even a justification for the practice. Spin away all you want.</p>
<p>I do see that morehead accepts over 70% of it's students but will not publish the median SAT or GPA, therefore it cannot really be that tough to get into. </p>
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<p>Blah blah, I know i am a hater for pointing out the obvious because the obcious is not PC. The bottom line is that if companies recruit more at these schools than other schools of similar calliber, it is to fill a quota. Period. The fact that the students that are recruited are successful has nothing to do with it, I am sure that on a peercentage basis, there are students at other less recruited achools that do just as well. Successful students are merely a good concequence and-dare i say even a justification for the practice. Spin away all you want.</p>
<p>I do see that morehead accepts over 70% of it's students but will not publish the median SAT or GPA, therefore it cannot really be that tough to get into.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure why you are being so defensive in your posts. It's as if you're explicitly asking to be flamed. I'm not here to do that. I'm also not here to argue about something so trivial. No where in my post did I attack you as a person. Besides, I'm the only one who even replied to you. Sure, the companies have noticed a void in their workforce and are attacking the problem by hiring graduates from HBCUs. Again, the reason they are doing this is because there is obviously a larger density of African-American students attending these institutions. No one is forcing them to do this. </p>
<p>I don't understand your disparage, but such is life. By the way, Morehouse is not Morehead State University. Anyway, for other participants in this thread, forgive me for steering it away from the original discussion.</p>