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Why Applications And Enrollment Are Spiking At Historically Black Colleges Share to Facebook P.A.GREENE When it came time for Mikayla Terry to apply to college last fall, the 18-year-old made Clark Atlanta University one of her picks. The research institution in Georgia’s biggest city was founded three months after the Civil War ended, to educate Black Americans. Today the majority of its 3,000 undergraduates are Black and it’s known as one of the top historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, in the U.S. “I wanted to go to a school where everyone looked like me and was having the same struggles as me,” says Terry, whose public high school in Montclair, New Jersey has a diverse student body. “I wanted to be in a place where we could embrace our culture and not get glared at for it.” This spring, she was offered a full scholarship at Saint Leo, a well-regarded Catholic school in Florida. But instead she chose Clark Atlanta, which has not yet made her a fin

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