A Different World: HBCU vs PWI Episode
In the third season and 12th episode of
A Different World, the show waded into the seemingly never ending "debate" of
HBCU vs
PWI. In the episode, DWayne's childhood friend comes to visit him at Hillman and tries to convince him to transfer to the PWI he attended. He makes all of the baseless claims people always make about
HBCUs not being a reflection of the "real world," HBCUs not being as rigorous, and HBCUs not having the right connections. When DWayne asks
Whitley if Hillman was her first choice she, like many HBCU students and alums, answers with an emphatic "
Yes!" She was part of a legacy at Hillman that would simply not have been the case had she attend the other school she was accepted to,
Georgetown. The episode ends with DWayne schooling his friend on the many accomplishments of
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