A Place Built for You

Introduction
Spelman College is a women's college. It is also an HBCU. It has an awesome liberal arts program, faculty who take an interest in you as a person as well as you as a scholar, and a tradition of moving her students on to positions of leadership in their professional lives, community activities, and personal interests. There is a rumor out there that students are all upper class and self-centered. Couldn't be more wrong. Many Spelman students (may I say most) are on some kind of scholarship or grant to get through. The Leadership Center hosts the Bonner Service Program which always has students in there looking for ways in which they can do community service. As a part of the Atlanta University Center, there is close proximity to Morehouse College (an HBCU men's college) and Clark Atlanta University.
If you want to be a leader, if you want a school that is going to propel you into the future fully prepared to take on corporate politics or civil service, this is the place for you. If you want a degree from Spelman just to say you went here, forget it. You will end up with so much more!

Campus Life and Social Life
There are Greek organizations, but the school social life is not centered around them. You are in Atlanta, for heaven's sake...if you can't find something to do on our own campus, try Morehouse or Clark Atlanta or Emory or Georgia Tech or Georgia State...or try one of the many clubs that are glad to have you drop by. There are sports here, Division 3 NCAA. Not a lot of student participation, but that is changing. Advertisement
Academics
Come to work and to think! Every first year student must take ADW (the African Diaspora in the World). You will remember your prof and what he or she taught you for the rest of your life, ask any alumna. It gives you a new perspective of the world, one that you will apply in almost every arena of your life. While there is a lot of attention to the sciences (who graduates more Black female students from Medical school) the humanities will get and keep the attention of anyone who gives them a shot. From a nationally renowed Langston Hughes scholar to taking classes with the great author Pearl Cleage, humanities here are the best.

Student Body
Typical student seems to be from a school where she was one of a few in the AP and honors classes or was at the top of her class in an urban environment. While she may never have travelled the world, she is world smart and savy. Well mannered, poised, intelligent, thinks on her feet, analytical, fun, funny, fair, sisterly. OK, maybe not really typical, but so common it is not funny. Community service seems to be the calling of many of these students, but there are a few who are there for the guys next door (Morehouse). They seem to be in the minority.

In Closing...
Spelman College is hard to get into but those who do get in are a part of a sisterhood that will last for the rest of their lives. Your sisters will encourage you to succeed in classes while there and in life afterward. We have the highest graduation rate of any other HBCU and as far as graduating students of African descent, one of the highest graduation rates in the country. You are supported from every area and allowed to grow as an individual. There is no cookie-cutter student here, each woman stands on her own among her sisters.