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Battling for the best and brightest: under the National Achievement Scholarship program, data show that the top black students are increasingly bypassing black colleges. So where are they going and why?(TOP 100 DEGREE PRODUCERS: BACCALAUREATE DEGREES)(Cover Story)
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Black Issues in Higher Education
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June 2, 2005
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For more than a decade, Florida A&M University and Howard University competed intensely to enroll the nation's top-testing Black college freshmen, regularly heralding their triumphs against the likes of Harvard and Yale in a succession of dueling press releases.
But last fall, a mysterious change appeared on the National Achievement Scholarship enrollment list: According to the alphabetical roster published by the competition's sponsor, Howard fell from first to sixth place, dropping from 71 to just 29 freshman National Achievement Scholars in a single year. Florida A&M plunged from 7th to 35th place with only four. Morehouse College, which had a year earlier enrolled 15 ...
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