&gt;It&#x27;d be an irony if part of the reason students at HBCUs don&#x27;t &quot;mesh&quot; with Silicon Valley is that they&#x27;re not comfortable with diverse environments.<p>This wouldn&#x27;t surprise me.  I graduated college 18 years ago, and even back then there was a huge amount of diversity in my graduating class.  I had friends from India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Turkey, Ghana, etc.  However, there were very, very few African-Americans (the guy from Ghana doesn&#x27;t count).  Nor were there any Hispanics that I recall.  So someone from my university would have fit in pretty well in SV in a diverse work team (and they did, lots of my classmates went there).<p>So I think your test isn&#x27;t flawed at all, but a very worthwhile question.