to me, its alright to go to a decent HBCU ..

[JMill782]

in my opinion, if you don't go to a top tier HBCU you can still prosper as long as you are networking and making connections with people. also if you do internships while in school, you gain job experience which helps you get hired by companies. and schools can help you find internships, train you for interviews and stuff like that. so ain't nothing wrong with going to non top tier HBCU like Kentucky State or Lane College or SCSU (no offense to whoever went there). just my opinion.

thats really what is important in college. getting your degree, making connections/networking for future opportunities, getting internships for job experience.

 

[JMill782]

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Why can't we have HWCU's :cacpls:

 

[EndDomination]

You're right.
I would place GPA as the most important, followed by networking/internships/work experience.
A 3.8 as a Black student from any university can get you into a top-tier internship in nearly any field, and those top internships can very easily lead directly to jobs.
Even more so if you're going to graduate school.

 

[EndDomination]

Why can't we have HWCU's :cacpls:

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Columbia?

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Columbia?

All wonderful institutions of higher learning. Maybe the blacks just aren't smart enough to get in :cacpls:

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Not bad advice. Wherever you go just make sure to keep your grades up just to give yourself options. All colleges are pretty much the same in the eyes of employers and admissions committees at professional schools.

Unless of course you go to an ivy league school, they get a leg up in life

 

[ridedolo]

i agree. if you do well and network you'll do well.

Going to a PWI (if an HBCU is available) is a horrible decision for a black person imho.

 

[JMill782]

You're right.
I would place GPA as the most important, followed by networking/internships/work experience.
A 3.8 as a Black student from any university can get you into a top-tier internship in nearly any field, and those top internships can very easily lead directly to jobs.
Even more so if you're going to graduate school.

Not bad advice. Wherever you go just make sure to keep your grades up just to give yourself options. All colleges are pretty much the same in the eyes of employers and admissions committees at professional schools.

Unless of course you go to an ivy league school, they get a leg up in life

i agree. if you do well and network you'll do well.

Going to a PWI (if an HBCU is available) is a horrible decision for a black person imho.

i been trying to explain to those who shyt on any non top tier HBCUs, saying the only HBCU worth going is Howard, Morehouse and Spelman. it really doesn't really matter where you go as long as you can network, get a high GPA, and get internships you pretty much set.

 

[JMill782]

All wonderful institutions of higher learning. Maybe the blacks just aren't smart enough to get in :cacpls:

who made that smiley

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

i been trying to explain to those who shyt on any non top tier HBCUs, saying the only HBCU worth going is Howard, Morehouse and Spelman. it really doesn't really matter where you go as long as you can network, get a high GPA, and get internships you pretty much set.

It's true. I started out at Morgan state in 99 but transferred to get a better school name at univ of maryland. After I graduated and started working at northrop Grumman I was working with the same people I had classes with from Morgan state. Gpa was all the same to the gate keepers unless you can go ivy because they get the real preferential treatment and the goat networks

 

[EndDomination]

i been trying to explain to those who shyt on any non top tier HBCUs, saying the only HBCU worth going is Howard, Morehouse and Spelman. it really doesn't really matter where you go as long as you can network, get a high GPA, and get internships you pretty much set.

Career-wide it doesn't, though certain HBCUs will have a different experience from others, Howard is in DC and is constantly flooded with organizations who want to fill their quota with the brightest Black students, and it has prestigious graduate schools, Morehouse and Spelman come with their collective heritage and the unique culture of their brother-sister campuses, Xavier comes with the heavy STEM culture (more Black doctors, engineers and physicists come from Xavier than any other school) and Hampton comes with its heavy alumni base.
Some HBCUs also come with administration issues (think the low-tier ones), but overall it shouldn't matter too much. I'm still thinking about transferring to an HBCU (Xavier) because I'm tired of the school I go to , but I have to see about financial aid.

 

[JMill782]

It's true. I started out at Morgan state in 99 but transferred to get a better school name at univ of maryland. After I graduated and started working at northrop Grumman I was working with the same people I had classes with from Morgan state. Gpa was all the same to the gate keepers unless you can go ivy because they get the real preferential treatment

thank you for your story. you furthered prove my point, because people graduated from an HBCU and blame the school instead of themselves for not taking shyt seriously.

 

[JMill782]

Career-wide it doesn't, though certain HBCUs will have a different experience from others, Howard is in DC and is constantly flooded with organizations who want to fill their quota with the brightest Black students, and it has prestigious graduate schools, Morehouse and Spelman come with their collective heritage and the unique culture of their brother-sister campuses, Xavier comes with the heavy STEM culture (more Black doctors, engineers and physicists come from Xavier than any other school) and Hampton comes with its heavy alumni base.
Some HBCUs also come with administration issues (think the low-tier ones), but overall it shouldn't matter too much. I'm still thinking about transferring to an HBCU (Xavier) because I'm tired of the school I go to , but I have to see about financial aid.

thanks for your opinion. and you should check out Dillard as well if you really want to attend school in New Orleans