DC Black Upper Class & Georgetown University

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Sidwell Friends 2023 college admits: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023

National Cathedral School 2022 Admits: https://www.instagram.com/cathedral2022/

Lawerenceville School (Top NJ Boarding School) https://www.instagram.com/lvillecolleges2024/

Look at Sidwell’s 2024 IG page. There are two students going to HBCUs (Morehouse and Spelman). There are GDS and STA students going to Morehouse. All of these students are in Jack and Jill.

Black elite are no fans of Howard

Maybe locals want to spend their wings

Or maybe they are not stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that the top choices for rich black americans are Duke, Harvard, Columbia

1) Duke https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Duke+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

2) Harvard https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Harvard+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

3) Columbia https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Columbia+University+in+the+City+of+New+York&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

Never knew black people, loved Duke so much

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that the top choices for rich black americans are Duke, Harvard, Columbia

1) Duke https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Duke+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

2) Harvard https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Harvard+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

3) Columbia https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Columbia+University+in+the+City+of+New+York&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

Never knew black people, loved Duke so much

It's southern and has a good black community. I wouldn't expect much different.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that the top choices for rich black americans are Duke, Harvard, Columbia

1) Duke https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Duke+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

2) Harvard https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Harvard+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

3) Columbia https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Columbia+University+in+the+City+of+New+York&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

The Duke and the Harvard stats are pretty much tied, with the edge going towards Duke, that's pretty impressive for Duke, and Columbia being a distant 2nd

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that the top choices for rich black americans are Duke, Harvard, Columbia

1) Duke https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Duke+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

2) Harvard https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Harvard+University&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

3) Columbia https://top100.diverseeducation.com/2016-2017/?search_degree=Bachelor&search_race=African+American&search_major=&search_school=Columbia+University+in+the+City+of+New+York&search_rank=&search_state=&search=search#anchor

The Duke and the Harvard stats are pretty much tied, with the edge going towards Duke, that's pretty impressive for Duke, and Columbia being a distant 2nd

I would say Duke is the clear winner over Harvard, because Harvard is majority African and Caribbean, over black Americans, while Duke is majority black American over African and Caribbean

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

As I said earlier, Duke seems like a fine university—I’m not knocking it.
I can especially see Duke’s appeal for a first-generation college student from the south. As a multigenerational college graduate from CA, Duke doesn’t hold the same appeal for me (or many other similarly situated people that I know). Especially not over Ivies, Stanford or MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

As I said earlier, Duke seems like a fine university—I’m not knocking it.
I can especially see Duke’s appeal for a first-generation college student from the south. As a multigenerational college graduate from CA, Duke doesn’t hold the same appeal for me (or many other similarly situated people that I know). Especially not over Ivies, Stanford or MIT.

Duke is ranked 7th best university in America, higher than Columbia, for black Americans, Duke is a #3 choice behind Harvard, and Yale, but before Princeton and Columbia

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

As I said earlier, Duke seems like a fine university—I’m not knocking it.
I can especially see Duke’s appeal for a first-generation college student from the south. As a multigenerational college graduate from CA, Duke doesn’t hold the same appeal for me (or many other similarly situated people that I know). Especially not over Ivies, Stanford or MIT.

Duke is ranked 7th best university in America, higher than Columbia, for black Americans, Duke is a #3 choice behind Harvard, and Yale, but before Princeton and Columbia

Black percent of undergraduate students - Class of 2027

Columbia - 20%

Harvard - 15%

Yale - 14%

Duke - 13%

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

As I said earlier, Duke seems like a fine university—I’m not knocking it.
I can especially see Duke’s appeal for a first-generation college student from the south. As a multigenerational college graduate from CA, Duke doesn’t hold the same appeal for me (or many other similarly situated people that I know). Especially not over Ivies, Stanford or MIT.

Duke is ranked 7th best university in America, higher than Columbia, for black Americans, Duke is a #3 choice behind Harvard, and Yale, but before Princeton and Columbia

Black percent of undergraduate students - Class of 2027

Columbia - 20%

Harvard - 15%

Yale - 14%

Duke - 13%

yup Duke has the smartest black students among the top schools

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

As I said earlier, Duke seems like a fine university—I’m not knocking it.
I can especially see Duke’s appeal for a first-generation college student from the south. As a multigenerational college graduate from CA, Duke doesn’t hold the same appeal for me (or many other similarly situated people that I know). Especially not over Ivies, Stanford or MIT.

Duke is ranked 7th best university in America, higher than Columbia, for black Americans, Duke is a #3 choice behind Harvard, and Yale, but before Princeton and Columbia

My perspective isn’t based solely on rank, dear. Princeton has been ranked higher than Harvard College (USNWR) for years. Given the choice, I would not pick Princeton over Harvard. There is an intangible prestige and door-opening effect that Harvard has over Princeton…and always will.

The same applies to Columbia and Duke. I would pick Columbia over Duke, without a second thought or hesitation.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even know OF any UMC black families who are thinking about Duke, and in what world is it ranked higher than Harvard? I went to Penn, and the children of my peers are looking at high profile HBCUs and Ivies.

No one I know of is looking at Duke or Vandy. UVA is as far south as most black folks I know are willing to go UNLESS to go to an HBCU cause racist townies without the nurturing embrace of an entire school administration is suboptimal...

We're an UMC Black family. Duke was a top pick for DC, but after touring this spring it quickly fell off the list. DC has Ivies, HBCUs, a few state flagships, and a couple privates on the list.

Black America doesn't view Duke University the same way the rest of the country views Duke, to black americans, Duke might as well be Harvard South

I assume I’m part of the group the OP references. I’m an attorney (4th generation college graduate/3rd generation J&J, AKA, and Links/my children are private school lifers, etc…).

Duke seems like a fine university, but it’s not aspirational to me. I’ve never thought of it as better than any Ivy. I would even choose Cornell (especially Dyson) over Duke.

Cornell really? Seems pretty miserable unless the goal is to be an Alpha or something.

I'm from the south, first-generation. Duke was everything in comparison to ivies. I didn't really want to go, but I did apply to make my family happy. It was Duke, Howard/Spelman, and whatever HBCU your parents went to.The person saying they don't know any black students going South should actually visit the South where most of the Black American population is. A significant move back south has been occurring the past two decades and black students have moved more and more to schools like Emory than Cornell.

The people who don't see Vandy should know that it has the highest percent of black students in a university class of any top school.

As I said earlier, Duke seems like a fine university—I’m not knocking it.
I can especially see Duke’s appeal for a first-generation college student from the south. As a multigenerational college graduate from CA, Duke doesn’t hold the same appeal for me (or many other similarly situated people that I know). Especially not over Ivies, Stanford or MIT.

Duke is ranked 7th best university in America, higher than Columbia, for black Americans, Duke is a #3 choice behind Harvard, and Yale, but before Princeton and Columbia

Not for the wealthy, educated Black people that I know. You must be talking about regular Black people (first-gen, lower/middle class, and/or relying on financial aid).