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But would you say the same thing about the HBCUs? Do you ask why whites do not regularly apply to them? [/quote]

[b]Here's the difference - the HBCUs were established and continue to support primarily black students who have been excluded from higher education opportunities and which to this day are still providing black families that lack the higher education generational history with a supportive, welcoming environment -was noted on pages one and two below.[/b] Secondly, the reason whites don't regularly apply to HBCUs is probably much the same as what's been professed here as well - that white kids don't need those supports/handholding/don't want to be extreme minority, etc.

-- Trying to reply just to the above. Yes, and maybe just maybe Banneker provides something like this now for black high schoolers who are high achieving. Does it not? [/quote]

Yes, and that was also pointed out in the quotes you clipped. That is a relevant factor for weighing whether a school would serve a student - but as a single data point. It's the sweeping assertions (not yours necessarily) that a majority black school can't serve white, predominantly higher SES students, because of it's make up. Again, that is rarely said about historically white schools, who have had a demonstrably difficult time being responsive to AA, and lower SES students, especially ones that are first generation in college.[/quote]

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