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I’m honestly not sure why HSIs and HBCUs have any merit — their courseload and quality of education overall isn’t better than most semi targets, but I guess firms have shifted the identity paradigm so much that they’ll only take URMs from institutions that are filled with URMs instead of URMs that have broken into schools that are universally hard to get into.

 
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No you're not. 

I genuinely don't understand why HBCUs have such an easy pipeline into the Buy-side such as AltFinance

This isn't one of those diversity posts (no shit), although I expect some of the comments will trend in that direction.

What I question is why other black candidates with significantly better resumes, (read: qualifications to be able to break in on their own) are left by the wayside. The sell-side is relatively meritocratic when it comes to this: yes, diversity candidates are often evaluated in a separate pool, but this separate process is purely meritocratic.

 How are those candidates left behind? I was and know plenty of black students at Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Princeton, and many other top target schools that could break in on their own who still leveraged those programs. At the end of the day it's part of building a network.

Not to mention Howard and Morehouse kids with ~18 ACTs look down on the rest of us that actually broke into top schools and its the most annoying thing in the world when these guys get handed analyst buy-side offers at top shops.

Huh? Since when do these kids look on. Let me pick up the phone and call my friends that went to Morehouse, Howard and Spellman to confirm this. This is laughable  

Then ppl on this forum wonder why their diversity candidates suck: NOT SOURCING THEM RIGHT.

The black wharton kid is fine, but everyone else gets screwed over in favor of guys who hate black folk who went to PWIs

TLDR: Howard is not the Black Harvard: that would be the brother who actually went to Harvard.

I don't think anyone has ever said Howard, Morehouse or Spellman was the Black Harvard.

 There is so much i want to say about your post but I'm not going to because your post screams bitterness. You sound like one of those jack and jill kids who hates seeing the non-jack and jill black kids that go to MV. 

 

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