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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]

I would also say that for the most part whites don't attend HCBUs for undergrad, but that doesn't necessarily hold true for grad school. I grew up in a city with a large HCBU and actually had a few white friends who attended for undergrad, but I knew a ton of white students who got grad degrees there. Part of it is cultural - HCBUs don't target white students for undergrad and white students often don't even consider them in high school, but I think that often changes as people start looking at things relevant to their careers post-college and colleges recruit people looking to get into certain professions.  [/quote]

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