Posted on 07/24/2026 3:15:03 AM PDT by Libloather
Hundreds of incoming Howard University students from across the country were blindsided just weeks before the start of school after learning they had been unenrolled over unpaid bills.
Freshmen were informed this week that they had missed a July 10 payment deadline and would not be allowed to attend the upcoming fall semester at the private HBCU school in Washington, DC. ABC 7 reported.
Students were set to start moving into their on-campus housing on August 3 while the Fall semester begins on August 17.
Isabella Williams had her truck packed and was gearing up to take the long trip from her home in Alabama on Thursday to start her internship with the school’s football team next week when her dream school informed her she was unenrolled.
“Never in my life have I been so disappointed,” Williams said in a tearful video on her Instagram. “Never in my life have I gotten so far and worked so hard for it to be stripped from me on a random Wednesday.”
Williams, who was accepted to 42 colleges, committed to Howard University in May.
Williams said she had two guaranteed scholarships pending from Howard University, who was going to cover the remainder of her tuition balance due in July.
“I had two scholarships from Howard University. I had an $11,000 scholarship and a $16,000 scholarship that was directly from them,” Williams told the outlet.
She said she was as transparent with the school as she could be, sending them document proof that money would come in August and was told “everything was fine” and that her “scholarships could come through later.”
Williams said when she reached out to the university, she was told that there was “no way for us to come back,” and the school “suggested that we come back for...
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I don’t know about all the other students, but according to the intro, this student had $27,000 in scholarships from this University expected to arrive in August. Either this info is true and Howard is F’ed up or this is a lie that needs to be challenged. Knowing how DC can F things up, I will not be surprised if she is correct.
Expecting blacks to suddenly pay for something…
Isn’t this one of the historically black colleges?
ChatGPT:
40–50% of Black Americans lived in a household receiving at least one major means-tested benefit in a typical year
See my comment 61, DC govt has many Howard grads as employees. I could not believe all the many was DC can F up the simple that people have told me about over the years.
“Are they going to blame this on Whitey keeping them down?”
The white man and everybody else who pays taxes to support blacks, is keeping them down. This is how their pea brains operate. 85% of blacks go by this and they are the most racist group in America.
Here is what I wrote in reply to your claims:
"So kids at Howard skip ALL classes?"
Still waiting for some references to that claim.
And applying to many schools is “especially” an AA thing?
Still waiting for some references that this is an "especially" an AA thing". You posted some good links. But do you have specific numbers on applying to many schools broken down by race, etc?
And your claim about it being “exponentially bad” at HBCUs in regards to [Howard] " is trying to stop is kids going through all the motions to go to the school, arrive at the school without even a dollar invested, party and skip classes - all classes - and hog up dorm space that prevents others from attending."
Do you have specific information that that is a policy for HBCUs?
Disgusting comment. But it helps possible new FReepers and supporters make an informed decision on joining.
It sounds like there were multiple sources of scholarships—Howard was just one of the sources.
It sounds like one of those other sources did not cough up the promised cash on a timely basis.
Ha, finally got Fury's attention! People like you are the reason comedians are having a hard time.
FR makes it easy and ad-free to get lots of current news from multiple worldwide sources without going all over the Internet for it. That's what the informed decisions on joining should be based on. The comment sections are just a bonus to try out jokes.
With a deadline as early as July 10, how reasonable is it to expect that all the scholarship money or even a reasonable amount of it is going to be disbursed that early? This woman was apparently expecting a chunk of money some time in August, coming from Howard U at that. I am not at all surprised that Hiward does not have some setup for protecting their own interests AND those of the students in cases like this, Would not be the first time I heard of Howard doing something dumb.
Those garnishments can be a real devil because they efectively prevent the garnishee from getting a checking account since it wil be garnished as soon as the ganishee deposits any money into it. Had it happen to a client long ago.
The article said the scholarships were pending.
Yeah, I read that gibberish. It doesn’t make a bit of sense.
Their single parents trained them.
>> The school is at fault i think.
...or maybe she’s lying out her azz...???
>> You make a lot of claims.
So do you.
your kids are presumably white?
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