Bunchy Carter
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How could going to a HBCU possibly benefit me more than a PWI would?
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I wanted to go to an hbcu but couldnt afford it, took a scholly at a school a little bit higher than auburn. After graduation I applied for jobs and didnt get into the firms I thought I should of.
Through linkedin I found at what blacks did get in. It was about 45% hbcuand 45% went to ivies/top 15 schools. The rest were "smart nikkas" like me fighting over that last 10% to fulfill their diversity quota.
There is no question if I would of went to an hbcu I would of got in, they have established networks with big businesses. To be frank its less competition and you have a higher likelihood of getting a really good job if you just keep your head down. If I could go back and do it again, I'd find some way to pay for it. The job you get earlier in life pretty much dictates your connections and future opportunities. Dont be a dumb nikka like me and take your a$$ to an hbcu reap those benefits.
Exactly these dumb fukks dont realize that HBCUs have big time connections with major companies. You got people who work at these companies that go back and recruit. Plus the companies go to these HBCUs when it comes to recruiting black people overall. Many times a whole graduating class will get hired in certain fields. Also it is best to go through HBCUs and black organizations to get jobs as a black person. I knew one brotha that was lookin for a job as an engineer a whole year and couldn't find one. This brotha goes to the NESB convention and gets a job in two weeks.
Go to prairie view, north Carolina a&t and Jackson state. Most of these folks graduate and get engineering jobs at NASA, Home Depot, GM, John Dear, Eaton and many other big companies. If you get your masters degree from these schools you will get a job on the spot making at least 60 to 70k.
Trust the black schools will hook you up with a good gig quicker than the white schools.
All the Black kids I know, including myself, have been much more successful than our Black counterparts who chose to dwell in the house of their masters
Alabama A&M has engineer grads pumped into federal government jobs EVERY year. Hell we have a Military base that houses a NASA space flight center operation in the same town. AND the tuition is cheap.
Don't sleep breh. Most of the cats I went to school there with are making good ass bread for big companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
True brotha...I forgot about Alabama a&t and Alabama state. Defense companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, general dynamics and L3 hire black folks by the hundreds from HBCUs. One year the old company I worked for gave an offer to every black engineer that graduated one spring from north Carolina a&t. I encourage to this day every brotha and sista that wants to be an engineer to go to an HBCU. It will get your career jumped started much faster.
Oh you want diversity?
http://hbcudigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AAMU-Mediafakeout.jpg
Thank you. Look at the hips and butts on those girls. Man I love black girls that run track.
And you don't get lost in the crowd as far as jobs go.
Say if a company decides to hire 20 grads from Auburn and 20 from AAMU...guess where a student has the best odds....
Exactly brotha. At auburn that means out that 20 maybe 2 or 3 blacks get hired. Your odds are better at the black school. Plus there is no bull shytting....when they come to the black school hey are there to hire black people first and overall.
We are talking about institutions. It's a fact that several HBCUs don't have their business in order. If I'm paying more than $50k per year, some of which will be loans, I would at least want the front office to be in check.
Doesn't matter what I think though, as long as OP makes the best decision for him.
Who's HBCU is charging 50k a year?
Plus schmoove the students work together and help one another out.
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