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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Wow - From the poster who walked the walk. I don't know where the poster who started all this about "safety" schools is from but I hope you do not come to Basis because I wouldn't want any of your inferiority ideas rubbing off on my DS.

No, the HBCU was not my safety school. I assumed based on my PSAT and SAT scores that I could attend any school to which I applied. [b]My mother still has the full huge file box of all the recruitment letters I received. Brainflash - testing, at least for me, was learned in the early formative years when I was in an all Black and majority Black environment. [/b]However, my decision to go to an HBCU for graduate school was very purposeful (only place I applied). I knew I would run into people with attitudes like the insecure poster, although I did not think they would be AA. I knew these people would assume that the reason I was successful was because of the graduate school I attended and they would dismiss the HBCU as having input to my success. In fact, the reason I am successful is due to the experiences I had at the HBCU. The extremely driven students from very poor backgrounds at HBCU's are very high motivators for students from a privileged background. Also once you attend an HBCU you know you have the tools required to be successful - administration issues, professors that push you to recognize that you can do more, etc. In my household attending an HBCU was a source of pride, not something that was looked down on.[/quote]

The point here is most kids in elite private schools got a trunk full of recruiting letters -- many from schools they had never even heard of.  This is a function of blackening appropriate spots on the PSAT and SAT scantron test sheets key areas pertaining to race and ethnicity.  It's interesting your mother saved these telemarketing letters.  Many of us certainly did not.  Was Howard University the one and only college you applied to?  What made it your first choice school?

Let me make it perfectly clear I have nothing against Howard.  I have brilliant and successfull colleagues from Howard and went to school with dunces and failures who went Harvard. [/quote]

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