A former professor of mine once told me that students from HBCUs who hope to go to graduate/professional schools following their undergraduate years have to have higher GPAs than students who come from PWIs. I'm not sure if this is true, but just to be safe I made sure I carried a 4.0 in the graduate program at CAU. I didn't want there to be any discussion on whether I could excel and succeed at Berkeley (my school of choice) when it came time to do my Ph.D. work.
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Originally posted by straightBOS:
I am actually glad that this forum was started because this same thing was going thru my head. I attend a PWI, and although they have top notch facilities and admin, I hate being a minority. All the white folks are scared of us (or most, I should say), and it seems like if you succeed they think its because you received a hand out.
I had thought about attending an HBCU or at least a more diverse campus for grad school, but I have been reluctant. In my major they just don't rank near the top and I'm not sure if I am willing to sacrifice a better atmosphere for a lesser known program.
Truly, I was blown away when I went down south and so many black people. It was unbelievable! (I'm STRAIGHT outta BOSton, yall, so forgive me.)
Education comes first, so its hard to decide. School is so expensive, so I want to choose wisely. But I guess you never really know the deal until you actually attend classes.
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