Section E: The Realism of Counseling for Scholarship Aid with Freshmen in the Negro College

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, de facto and otherwise, many high school counselors for the first time in their lives may be faced with counseling youth who express a desire to attend colleges with predominately Negro populations. Presently the largest number of students enrolled in these colleges lives in the Southern region of the Country where most of the schools are located; nevertheless, these colleges manage to attract students from the Northern, Eastern, and Western parts of the United States, as well as from such foreign places as Burma, China, India, The West Indies, South America, Africa and Iran. In spite of their reported shortcomings, the matter of their survival, reason, general criticism, and desegregation efforts, many of these institutions are quite active academically and are likely to exist for years (2, 3, 5). It would appear, therefore, that high school counselors may find it worth-while to become better acquainted with this group of colleges in order that they may be more effective in assisting eventual counselees in the process of making such a college choice.