LOL - people have said shit like this to my face my whole life, including some CS admissions guy at CMU but he had the nerve to throw in a derogatory remark about ADD too. Just normal shit that happened in the 90's I guess.
HBCU. I don't think I've ever heard of an application being binned because a recruiter didn't think someone was qualified to get into the school they listed. (But, for the record, I WAS qualified; the HBCU gave me more money.)