Howard University Taking Scholarships...

partyof5
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:16:38 +0000

I find it hilarious that some have so much to say about Howard, having never attended nor sent a child there.

Regarding scholarships, Howard changed the requirements for the 2016-2017 entering class. I know this because I had a child there on scholarship at the time and my graduating HS senior anticipated going there as well, with a better scholarship as she had higher test scores. In typical Howard fashion they changed the game midstream, and upset a lot of folks. It certainly was their prerogative but no one knew they changed until the spring when it was too late to get merit st some other schools. They decided to start taking need into account, which put Howard out of reach for a lot of middle class families. Now personally we could’ve paid but with some of the drama you have to deal with there, I said no thanks, even though my child that graduated in 2017 is thriving and it was the best decision ever made. @NuScholar was absolutely correct in that Howard is filled with middle class to affluent black students. All of my daughters friends came from good school districts, nice homes, and weren’t stressed for cash. We personally paid room and board out of pocket.

@VANDEMORY1342 the us news rankings are a joke. Schools game them constantly by playing games with their yields , etc to move up a few notches. Considering the resources, Howard overperforms. Now having said that it will be interesting to see how howard transforms over the next few years. When they basically changed the merit scholarships to need based they removed a large swath of upper middle class families like mine. I don’t think it was a good move because you had a group of high performing kids that weren’t stressed out about money issues that are now not attending Howard.

Howard should be ranked higher just on outcomes. I literally knew kids who interned at Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Apple, google, Microsoft and a host of other prestigious companies. As I mentioned in a previous thread my child had a plethora of summer opportunities, job offers upon graduation , and she is already on her second job not having been out of school for a year.

@ReturningFavor you are right you want those kids as your alumni, and their parents, but guess what? Howard has never contacted me once for a donation! It boggles my mind. My son graduated from a PWI in 2015 and a student calls me every year and asks for a donation. Howard really needs to hire a quality alumni head/fundraiser. I went to homecoming in 2014 and I thought “wow why don’t they announce something like they during natural disasters text &4&4@ and it will charge a $25 donation. They had a captive audience, all with cell phones, but they don’t seem to think creatively.