<p>Just an interesting scenario, I mean they would technically be the minority...</p>
<p>Wow…do your research. People that are not AA do attend HBCU’s. I can’t recall exactly, but it may have been Morehouse that had a caucasian student body pres a few years ago. And what was the pont of this thread? 8-| </p>
<p>maybe that as a minority they’d have a better chance ot increase diversity>?</p>
<p>I would hazard a guess that @Brutum and @theanaconda are making some point against “mainstream” colleges wanting diversity. So at a straw man scenario about how funny/unique it’d be for HBCUs to admit non-blacks is tossed out.</p>
<p>They’ve been open to that since their founding. Native Americans, hispanics. Not that many American colleges can say the same. Historically, if you understood the place of HBCUs, you’d be on your knees thanking the founders of those schools and their commitment to the betterment of one of the most oppressed sub-groups in the shameful racial history of this country. Don’t use them as some sort of whipping stick against what you perceive as “injustice” in college admissions.</p>
<p>@T26E4
I am against “mainstream” colleges wanting diversity, but it wasn’t my point. I was legitimately wondering if HCBU’s did favor what would be minority groups for their colleges. I have nothing against HCBU, I’m even considering one of them though I am not likely to apply. </p>
<p>Apparently public HBCUs lose funding/accreditation if they don’t admit a certain % of non-black students. <a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/historically-black-colleges-are-seeing-an-increase-of-white-students/2013/05/17/5a642f5e-bd80-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_blog.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/historically-black-colleges-are-seeing-an-increase-of-white-students/2013/05/17/5a642f5e-bd80-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_blog.html</a></p>
<p>Whether they are favored at private HBCUs is a different question.</p>
<p>anaconda: Isn’t there some irony that you’re against some colleges’ efforts to maintain or even increase diversity but your top three colleges stridently practice this exact policy? You’d like to have the benefits of attending one of those colleges but if they could hold off on that just a little bit for you (because you’re not in any particular targeted sub-group), until you get your foot into the door, then you’ll be OK with it?</p>
<p>@T26E4
i’m fully acknowledge my hypocrisy, I’m not sacrificing my future to make some moral point, and indeed there are far worse injustices in the world; comparatively this is pretty significant, it’s just this might be one of the greatest injustices related to college admissions which is why I discuss it on this thread.
Also, what I suggest to replace affirmative action would hurt me just as much if not more, my parents make about 200K/year (they used to make only about 100K until 2 years ago), so an “income” action wouldn’t help me anymore than the current affirmative action is. I don’t think there’s any self-serving in this. </p>
<p>at least one HBCU has a pretty kickass full ride automatic scholarship my (white) D has been eying.(Scholarship is available to all races with the stats…)</p>
<p>@GA2012MOM He was the valedictorian - he graduated in my class. (I went to Spelman, across the street.) He came to Morehouse because he wanted to experience what it was like to be in the minority for once. I always wondered what it was like for him - he was one of very few non-black students in the Atlanta University Center, the only white one that I knew at all, and everybody knew who he was even if they didn’t know him personally.</p>
<p>There are some HBCUs that are trying to somewhat diversify their classes (Morehouse being one of them); there are others who are actually half or mostly white (putting the “historically” in HBCU).</p>
<p>It’s not really an interesting scenario anymore - Hampton is 5% white, Del State is 13% white and I think Bluefield State is mostly white at this point.</p>
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<p>Looking at some HBUs at <a href=“http://www.collegedata.com”>http://www.collegedata.com</a> , it appears to be fairly common for them to list ethnicity as not considered in admissions.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/</a> lists Howard, Tuskegee, Alabama State, Florida A&M, and Prairie View A&M as schools offering automatic full tuition or full ride scholarships for stats.</p>