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Morehouse, Spelman, Howard, and Fisk are all prestigious schools that give their students a superior education. Not all traditionally white schools that are considered top notch are well known either. For instance, how many have ever heard of Williams? It's the same deal. Enough people chose Williams over Harvard to keep the school thriving, despite fishing in the same gene pool.
Fisk is almost lost its accreditation, it's not an elite school by any stretch of the imagination.
Basically they are some HBCU schools that are elite in the Black community but even the best generally perform no better than a run of the mill state school.
Basically they are some HBCU schools that are elite in the Black community but even the best generally perform no better than a run of the mill state school.
You should change that "even the BEST of black "elite" HBCU schools perform worse than the run of the mill state schools."
To be fair, these SAT stats include ALL of the student body at each school. I know private HBCU's have elite programs, in which the top 90-95th percentile of the student body scores within the above "IVY" range. For example, Hampton University has an MBA program which accepts only the best of incoming freshman, and graduates from that program work at top investment banks, big four accounting, etc. They also compete (and win) case competitions against Ivies, top state schools, etc. Keep in mind, these students could have likely gotten into any school in the country.
I also have a friend who just received a full ride to Carnegie Mellon upon graduating with a B.S. from a CS program at an HBCU. So when referring to SAT scores as the sole measure of the quality of education one receives UPON ARRIVING at an HBCU campus just isn't sufficient.
I would say no. I'm white. Like a lot of white people, I haven't really heard of a lot of them, they're off my radar.
If I were hiring someone, I would be looking at the name of the school. If I hadn't heard of it, I might be less inclined to the person.
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