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Direct linkSmith, Michael J. – Education and Urban Society, 2009
Research extols the benefits of parent involvement in college choice, but low-SES African American parents are unable to match efforts of wealthier parents. This qualitative study found that in their communities the high school diploma was the normative credential for upward mobility. To this end, parents used narratives of struggle to motivate…
Descriptors: High Schools, College Choice, Parent Participation, Expectation
Peer reviewedMitchell, Joyce Slayton – Journal of College Admission, 1993
Discusses what is wrong with encouraging high school students to apply to their dream school as a college choice when they have no real chance of being accepted. Contends that concentrating on an unrealistic dream school steals away serious exploration of all other colleges. Suggests ways that college advisors can burst the bubble of the "dream…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Bound Students, College Choice, Expectation
Peer reviewedHossler, Don; Maple, Sue – Review of Higher Education, 1993
A longitudinal study compared Indiana ninth graders (n=178) with and without postsecondary education plans. Results indicate decided and undecided students can be differentiated by the amount of time spent thinking about postsecondary options, amount of information received regarding those options, academic achievement, and student and parent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Choice, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedSevier, Robert A. – College and University, 1993
A survey of 1,127 college-bound African-American high school juniors investigated what help they had in the college choice process, how they described their preferred kind of college, their most important college choice criteria, their life goals, their perceptions of minority recruitment strategies, and their most desired college academic and…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Black Students, College Administration, College Bound Students
Download full textMcDonough, Patricia M.; And Others – 1997
This paper presents a model of college choice that suggests that students' choice of college can be related to perceived "capital conversion" benefits. The model was tested on an evenly distributed sample (n=22,109) of students; one group attending elite colleges (with average freshman Scholastic Assessment Test scores of 1200 or higher)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Capital, Cognitive Style, College Attendance
