Hampton University Speciality : Sociology
programme: Liberal Arts

I truly value the experience I received at Hampton university. As a prestigious, historically black university it taught me lessons I am not sure I would have learned at another school. What stood out to me on my first visit to the campus on a high school college tour was the rich history. As a black woman in America it was interesting to learn about things I hadn’t already known. One example of this was learning that the campus houses the emancipation oak. This tree is believed to be where the emancipation proclamation was read to slaves and free blacks who gathered beneath it, and many believe this to have been the first reading (of the proclamation) in the South.

One expensive and hard lesson I am currently learning is that it would have probably served me better to attend a school that was more affordable in the long run. As a private school I received no financial aid which unfortunately forced me to take out student loans for the whole amount. I wish I was advised better on going to a school in-state or one that offered me a scholarship.