Faith Ngwa woke up early to make the 90-minute drive from her home in Hagerstown, Maryland, to the campus of Howard University. She arrived promptly at 8 a.m. and was soon greeted by the one thing every student hopes to see on their college move-in day: a familiar face. Talking to an upperclassman she knew through a friend, conversation inevitably turned to the news of the summer.
“I’m so happy things worked out,” the elder student said.
Weeks before move-in day, it was unclear if Ngwa would have a spot at The Mecca. She had long wanted to attend Howard, one of the nation’s preeminent historically Black universities. In April, her phone flooded with congratulatory messages after she posted that she was going to be a Bison…