Howard University Taking Scholarships...

ReturningFavor
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:09:50 +0000

@VANDEMORY1342 I am not familiar enough with Spellman to know what they did. In some ways though it is like comparing apples and oranges as one is a small all female college and the other is a midsized coed research university. It would be like telling to take note of of a plan from Scripps. Some things could be gleaned, but ultimately the demographics are hugely different on the vast majority of fronts. Yet being HBCU they both face similar challenges in come regards so it would be interesting to know how they could help one another.
The stars at HU shine bright and have unbelievable opportunities from what I have seen. But I wonder what comes of those not in the tier? HU does also seem to have a chip on its shoulder. My point is that the truth may be somewhere in the middle of what you and @nuscholar seem to think it is.

@NuScholar I agree that HU seems to be in excellent hands right now. Let’s hope he gets the support he needs. Cleaning house in Admissions seems to help in the record number of applicants. But the bump hit with the yield being greater than expected. This fall will be a real challenge…too many students.

My son’s friend from the Ivy is now in at HU medical school. He said he wished he had gone there for undergrad because of the insane sense of family (alumn stop by and encourage you—and bust you for slacking), the great city, the commitment to service, and the pride of HU history and African american history bestowed. The students are expected to help one another and the class before them has a 120 in/120 out belief ('we started together, let’s finish together). He turned down a great state school med and an Ivy med. My D said that once he deals with the HU struggle of the administration, it will be interesting to see how he feels!

Interesting discussion and very helpful to me for my next kids as they now are hitting and ending high school.