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Does anyone attend Spelman College in Atlanta? I want to know more about the college life there.

By Usna_Reject (Usna_Reject) on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 11:29 pm: Edit

me too...
I just got an engineering scholarship application from there.

By Usna_Reject (Usna_Reject) on Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 05:37 pm: Edit

bumpy

By Antigua14 (Antigua14) on Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 08:59 pm: Edit

does anyone attend spelman college now and like it? do you regret going to a historically black school if you do? what are the benefits and what are the downfalls?

By Admissionsrep (Admissionsrep) on Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 11:45 pm: Edit

I cannot think of a better college to go to than Spelman. I hope that both of my girls go there; yes over Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford or any other school.

Spelman was designed for black women and as a result of this, the confidence of young black women tends to blossom there more than any other school I know. There is such a strong sense of sisterhood and networking that persist long after graduation.

The professors are very caring and they build very close relationships with the Spelman sisters.

Graduate schools and employers line up to hire and admit there graduates.

The school has become very preprofessional with a strong emphasis on pre-Med, Pre-Law and Engineering.

I also think it is an easier adjustment for a middle class student than it is for a student from the projects.

Spelman sets their standards very high and they admit students ambitious enough to aspire to the high expectations the teachers and administrators have for them.

I referred a student there and she currently has a 3.8, is Columbia bound for grad school, but most importantly, her confidence is at an all time high.

I know another college counselor who use to do admissions for Columbia and Vassar and she said that she has never seen such together, confident black women, like she has seen from Spelmanites.

The only drawback is that the financial aid is not as good as the wealthier predominately white schools. Spelman is very SAT conscious and they tend to give full merit scholarships to students with good GPA's, quality references and 1300+ SAT scores.

I sure have met a lot of students who went to IVY's who would have gone to Spelman if they had to do it all over again.