While I attended a prestigious PWI for undergrad, I am considering the same school as well as a prestigious HBCU with a top-notch program for grad school. I attended a magnet high school where people from all over the city enrolled so it was not clearly any majority.
However, a cousin of mine who lived and attended grade school (incl high school) in the suburbs got a rude awakening at college. She went from a lily white suburban high school in the north to a land grant HBCU in the south; her entire first year, she suffered from anxiety attacks. She eventually graduated with honors but she still has issues.
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Originally posted by Ideal08
I think that it depends on the person's background. I think that if you went to school with white people growing up, it would be good for you to attend an HBCU.
I said all that to say that your prior experiences should dictate where you go to school. If you think you can handle going to an all black high school, and an all black college and still hang with the culture shock, that's cool. I don't think I could've handled it, at least not the way I handled it in college. There's not as much bureaucracy, politics, and red tape on campus as there is in life, you know what I'm sayin'? However, if you went to school with white people all your life, i just think that you NEED to go to a Black school. People end up CONFUSED and NAIVE.
Just my .08 . . .
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