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Anonymous
The only "elite" in the area is JHU. Georgetown is very well regarded but is not quite up there with JHU. That said, UVA and UMD etc. are also really great schools and there are a lot of kids from UMC black families attending them. This forum is all kinds of shade and gray area. What is that actual point you are trying to make? Even with peer reviewed data you keep working up new angles to argue |
Anonymous
you're right, but they are going to JHU |
Anonymous
You might be a black parent, but you are not a parent of a Harvard student. A concentrator in Theatre, Dance, and Media is taking "advantage of the wonderful resources and courses that Harvard has to offer." So is a concentrator in Art, Film, and Visual Studies. The courseloads for both look pretty darn rigorous to me: https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/course-list; https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/courses-list. Neither Theatre, Dance, and Media nor Art, Film, and Visual Studies existed as a concentration when I was a undergraduate. (Back then, the closest thing to either would have been Visual and Environmental Studies.) Given the influence that Harvard graduates have in Hollywood, Broadway, and points in between, these new concentrations were long overdue. As for "greater heights," two members of my class are Academy Awards winners, one of whom is black: Geoffrey Fletcher. (I'm certain you've heard of the other one: Matt Damon.) Is there a higher pinnacle you would like them to reach? |
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The only “elite” in the area is Georgetown. JHU is a well regarded school but is not quite up there with Georgetown.
An opinion. That is all that is. Free to give. Free to give away. GU, JHU, UVA, W&M, UMD, Howard - I think all these places get their fair share of looks and no-looks from UMC black families in the area. Great to have such choices close to home but certainly see why kids may prefer options away from home. Part of growing up. |
Anonymous
Alot of kids leave sooner than that, Exeter, Andover, and Lawerenceville give you a better chance at HYP than Sidwell.... unless you got connections |
Anonymous
Amherst looks to be a favorite |
Anonymous
I'm checking to find where they got these numbers. According to Amherst itself, it has half the black undergraduate enrollment that this source says it does. Amherst only has 214 black students on campus. |
Anonymous
here's a different data source https://www.collegeevaluator.com/institute/amherst-college/enrollment/ I think the 467 is total first year student population of all students, and the 96 students are just first year black students Amherst is a very hard college to get into, only coming in 2nd behind HYP |
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Anonymous
I'm decently knowledgeable about Amherst, Swarthmore and Pomona, very good schools. I was just surprised by the 96 black first year students, that's a lot of black students for a LAC, and according to their Common Data Set, it isn't true: https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/B.%20Enrollment%20and%20Persistence_1.pdf. That number is higher than the amount of Asian students they have in their first year class. |
Anonymous
Amherst is not even the hardest Liberal Arts College to get accepted to. There's many schools that are much harder to get into than Amherst. |
Anonymous
it is ranked number 2 |
Anonymous
I meant it's hard to get into because of the small student body |
Anonymous
| Not surprised by Amherst, it's always been a popular school with the black upper class, a very popular school among abolitionist |
Anonymous
It was one of the first colleges to get on a big diversity push, which sets it apart from a lot of other colleges. While many universities were trying to beef up their black communities to diversify their student population, Amherst already had the black students. |