African American Student's College Guide: Your One-Stop Resource for Choosing the Right College, Getting in, and Paying...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition July 24, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471295523
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471295525
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description
Your One-Step Resource for Choosing the Right College, Getting in and Paying the Bill

• Inside tips on admissions
• Profiles of 100 top colleges
• Hundreds of scholarship sources

How do you pick the right college? Can you get in? And if you get in, how will you pay for it? Choosing a college is the most important-and daunting-decision facing todays high school students. Unfortunately, when it comes time to narrow down the choices and throw the perfect admissions punch, young people are often left to navigate the tricky admissions process on their own.

Now, from the nations top African American college guidance service, comes help at last-a comprehensive, one-stop guide to finding the right college, getting in, paying the bill, and much more. With insider tips on the entire admissions process, including advice on choosing a school, getting into the elite colleges, writing a powerful essay, preparing for the SATs, and packaging the application, the book shows students how to package themselves. No wonder college counselors nationwide look to Black Excel for resource materials. A one-of-a-kind manual for success, African American Students College Guide also provides:

• In-depth profiles of the top 100 colleges for African American students
• Black Excels exclusive list of hundreds of scholarships
• The "Get-the-Money Guide"
• Extraordinary sample essays
• Invaluable Internet resources

Whether youre a superstar student shooting for the Ivy League or a high school underachiever who requirements a "second chance," African American Students College Guide will give you that much-needed edge–including the "real rules," insiders tips, and how to beat the admissions odds. BLACK EXCEL: THE COLLEGE HELP NETWORK is the nations premier college help service for African Americans. Founded in 1988, it has garnered continuous praise for its personal counseling services, information packets, and its award-winning web site

From the Inside Flap
How do you pick the right college? Can you get in?

And if you get in, how will you pay for it? Choosing a college is the most important–and daunting–decision facing todays high school students. Unfortunately, when it comes time to narrow down the choices and throw the perfect admissions punch, young people are often left to navigate the tricky admissions process on their own. Now, from the nations top African American college guidance service, comes help at last–a comprehensive, one-stop guide to finding the right college, getting in, paying the bill, and much more. With insider tips on the entire admissions process, including advice on choosing a school, getting into the elite colleges, writing a powerful essay, preparing for the SATs, and packaging the application, the book shows students how to package themselves. No wonder college counselors nationwide look to Black Excel for resource materials. A one-of-a-kind manual for success, African American Students College Guide also provides:

• In-depth profiles of the top 100 colleges for African American students
• Black Excels exclusive list of hundreds of scholarships
• The "Get-the-Money Guide"
• Extraordinary sample essays
• Invaluable Internet resources

Whether youre a superstar student shooting for the Ivy League or a high school underachiever who requirements a "second chance," African American Students College Guide will give you that much-needed edge–including the "real rules," insiders tips, and how to beat the admissions odds. BLACK EXCEL: THE COLLEGE HELP NETWORK is the nations premier college help service for African Americans. Founded in 1988, it has garnered continuous praise for its personal counseling services, information packets, and its award-winning web site

Reader Reviews
I am a parent and I really loved this college guide! I have read several guides and this really did a great job of reviewing the colleges from an African-American perspective. My husband went to a historically black university (HBU) and he felt the comparison of the historically black university (HBU) to the predominately white universities was incredibly accurate. Thsi book exceeded my expectations! Comment | | (Report this)