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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
Let me clarify. I never thought Morehouse wasn't a prestigious school. I just didn't realize how preppy its students were.
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No, the point I was making concerned the social composition and dynamics of a school like Morehouse (and some other HBCUs), where, for some, there is an undercurrent of classism and cliquishness. I personally know of two people who transferred from "elite" HBCUs for this very reason. And a few years ago when I asked a former coworker about sending his academically talented daughter to Spelman, he bristled. He objected to her being subjected to this treatment there; he remarked that he'd rather her suffer this fate at a Public Ivy with snooty white people. (She went to UNC-Chapel Hill.)