Good one @Sue22. I am sad that it takes away from the student going to college when a larger number of students at that school don’t go to college. TSU has had a pipeline from Memphis high schools for a long time but I agree that the celebration is better when talking about college graduation since so many African American students start college but do not finish. It is definitely something cultural being seen, because the student will be celebrated for her hard work and achievement back in my old neighborhood and will not be asked about the overkill of applications. I received full rides from all 10 schools that I applied to 25 years ago and I was held up as a standard, and that student is being looked at as a standard today in her community. I just glad that I was way too lazy back then (even though I worked 25 hours a week) to have ever done more than those 10 applications which I thought was overboard back then.