'The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions' traces the path to higher education

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

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Timothy Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown are college admissions experts, so they know how confusing and overwhelming the higher education system can be. That's especially true for Black students, which is why their new book offers a guide for how to think about application timelines, exposure to schools, and financial aid opportunities. In this episode, they explain to Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd why there are specific challenges pertaining to Black students, and why it's important for everyone – parents, guidance counselors, high schoolers – to be better informed about the process.

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1:17.1	Applying to college is hard. You've got to get all your paperwork together and fill out all the forms and jump through all the hoops.
1:22.9	And even when it's over, you still have a hard decision to make as to, you know, where to actually go.
1:29.2	And because of a whole host of societal reasons, this process is significantly harder for black students.
1:30.3	But there's some help.
1:41.6	Timothy Fields and Shereem Herndon Brown are two college admissions experts, and they just wrote a book called The Black Families Guide to College Admissions, a conversation about education, parenting, and race.
1:46.1	They talked to here and now as Peter O'Dowd about the tough choices black families have to make,
1:51.1	the different aspects of college life they have the way when sending their kids to college.
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