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Originally posted by abaici
I'm sorry, despite your intentions, your statements were offensive. I received my undergraduate education at Spelman and my graduate education at UCLA. I can look at this situation from both sides of the fence as well. I firmly believed that the education I received at Spelman as an undergraduate was better than the one I would have received at UCLA. I say this because of my many encounters with people who attended Cal, UCLA, or other top ten schools. The fact that you stated that students receive a substandard education at HBCU's is not true. I cannot count the number of HBCU educated people who have won national awards, received acceptance into top ten graduate programs, and who are movers and shakers in their respective fields. I mean, if Spelman had a graduate program, I would have continued my education there. Please know that HBCU graduates are well-prepared and competitive. Top companies do not come to recruit there because we are Black, but because they realize that we are the best and the brightest.
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I'm guessing your comments were directed at my post, but even if they weren't, I'll respond anyway.
I'm glad that you enjoyed your education at Spelman. That's great. But as I said, I was speaking from MY experience and those that I know. Many people leave HBCU's dis-satisfied with the way they were treated, and refuse to donate $$ back to the school. If your experience was different, that's cool, I was just speaking from another perspective.
Also, please re-read my post. I did make a blanket statement that said all students at HBCU's receive a sub-standard education. I asserted that if the accredidation is lost, one can reasonably deduce that in some way, shape, or form...the school was sub-standard.
And lastly, do you really believe that top companies go to HBCU's mostly because they feel they are the best and the brightest? Better than Harvard or Yale grads? Maybe that's what they say....but in the board room...many times it comes down to that bottom line....diversity, quotas....etc. And before anyone takes that statement and runs with it....I am not saying that all HBCU grads are inferior or stupid. I'm just speaking about what goes on.
I know that's not what anyone wants to hear, but that's just facts.
I respect your viewpoint, I just differ on some points.