(04-17-2017 12:27 PM)ValleyBoy Wrote:  I can only speak for the state of Alabama. The vast majority of potential students that apply to Auburn and Alabama have high test scores. Students have to apply before they can be excepted and the ones that do not have high enough test scores know it is usually a waste of time to even apply. Living 30 minutes from Auburn a vast majority of potential students from my area that do have high enough test scores to be excepted to Auburn make the decision to start college at our local junior college just due to cost, then transfer to Auburn or another 4 year school.
Now I live a little over an hours drive from Alabama State. Alabama State does a very good job in recruiting black students from my area due to the fact that they have a higher percentile of graduates inside the local black community than the other local 4 year collages.

Somebody went to Troy.......

In all seriousness, I tend to agree with HOD. HBCUs can still serve a valuable purpose in Alabama. They just need to get the administrative side of things in order However, most of the big public universities recruit from a different pool of applicants.