DayStar Guide to Colleges for African-American Students

By Kaplan Inc., Daystar Educational Research, Kaplan Test Prep

The Information and Advice You Need to Choose the Right College Making the right decision requires having all the right information. The DayStar Guide to Colleges for African American Students... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684859548
• ISBN13: 9780684859545
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Best of the bunch

I am a college recruiter who specializes in minority students. I have used all of the college guides targeted to minorities and this is the best one. It's comprehensive, clearly written and nicely organized. Five stars.

DayStar Guide to Colleges for African American Students

This was the most comprehensive College guide I've ever seen. It gave me the ability to rate colleges in the areas that I felt were important to me. Both of my children used the book to make their decisions on which colleges they wanted to visit.

This book was great help!

I found out about this book on the radio. The writer was being interviewed. I decided to get it because I will be graduating from high school next June and I want to go to college. My mother didn't go to college so all she could do to help me was to say "just go to college." She couldn't give me any advice on which college or how I should go about figuring out which college was right for me. One of my teachers tried to help, but she just wanted me to go to the college where she went. I heard the author talking about how important it is to pick a college that is right for you even if other people said you should go to another school so I got this book so I could figure out which college was right for me. I could not stop reading it. It showed me how to pick the right school for me. It also had a lot of information on financial aid which I needed. The book has a lot of tips on how to pick the right college and how to get accepted there. I found out about a lot of colleges that I never heard of like Johnson C. Smith University, Davidson University and Elon College. All of these colleges are in North Carolina and I never heard of them. I also liked that the book has all of the black colleges and the non-black colleges.

Excellent guide for college bound young black adults

This college guide is a one of a kind resource that answers the hard questions of how black students fit into different college atmospheres. It not only deals with white institutions but it also deals with black institutions. It is very important that the mental health of your child be considered when they enter into the new world of college life, and this guide helps answer some of these concerns. College atmosphere can have the impact of success or failure for your child. This book helps parents and students figure out the best fit for a college. It deals with important self esteem and social issues for the individual. It is a useful resource for not only black students, but students of other minorities that face similar obstacles of fitting into the majority world of White America.

A very useful book

I have been advising college bound high school students for 14 years, and I am always disappointed by the college guides that do not include enough information on the schools that African American students are interested in. This causes us to have to buy several college guides each year and my school does not have much money. The DayStar guide has all the information African American students need to make a college choice and it covers several hundred schools. Other college guides for African American students only cover historically black colleges, but only 35% of black students go to HBCUs. And the other college guides tend to ignore the HBCUs. This book includes profiles on all types of colleges, including all of the HBCUs (even some I hadn't heard of). It also gives recommendations and advice from experts. This book is way overdue.