Spelman College Top Questions

I wish I would have known the great sisterhood that Spelman College provides before I came. I have no sisters, so I never really understood what a sisterhood consist of. When I first came to Spelman, I was greeted with kind smiles and warm hugs. The women here demonstrated to me what sisterhood is. They taught me that sisterhood at Spelman College is loving, caring, and looking over your fellow Spelman sister. This sisterhood helped me build connections, and it also provided me with long lasting friendships.

I wish I had known how difficult it was to get financial aid from the school itself and from outside sources. I wish that I knew how to negotiate and communicate with the financial aid workers to get the aid that I needed. It would've helped so much.

I wish I had a better understanding of how much it cost to go to Spelman. I do not regret my choice, however with a better understanding I would have prepared better and wouldn't be as stressed as I am now.

There is no financial aid and little help getting it, unless you have connections.

I wish I would have known that Spelman is not what everybody makes it seem. Please do not get me wrong Spelman College is a great school however it does not promote diversity. Everybody has their ideal image of what means to be a "Spelman Woman" and the school tries to model everyone into the ideal "Spelman Woman". Yet, that is where they go wrong. A "Spelman Woman" should be a woman who has the ability to express herself and not fit into a model. She should have to ability to not fall into the Spelman stigma.

I wish I would've known how much I would miss home. Being away from family and your home can be extremly challenging.

Before I came to Spelman I wish I would have known more about the full tuition scholarships that they provide. I was told that they sent out emails about them, but I never received those emails. My financial struggle has been so hard while being here, my own uncle tells me that I do not have the money to be here and I need to go to a community college. I will continue to apply for scholarships because I want to prove him wrong and accomplish my goal of becoming a forensic pathologist.

I wish I knew to contact the alumnae who graduated from Spelman College that were from Boston before I came because networking is something that allows students to gain certain opportunities. Therefore, Spelman College really pushes students to network with alumnae.

I wish I'd known that it would not be a breeze, because that is how I felt about highschool.

I wish I had known my study habits. Like the way I need to study to comprehend the information.