Believe and Succeed: Applying and Getting into Graduate School for Students of Color

Designed to prepare undergraduate psychology majors of color for successful admission and performance in psychology doctoral programs, Believe and Succeed: Navigating the Road to Graduate School Success is an interactive CD-ROM with a unique focus, a comprehensive message and a down-to-earth style.

The CD includes original animated sequences and drawings and audio and video clips that guide students through every step of the application process. Interactive menus throughout the CD highlight useful resources and tools for the application process, including:

Web links to financial aid information
Video sequences showing “good” and “bad” applicant interviews
Answers to questions that students of color in particular may have during the often lengthy and sometimes stressful application process

Creator, Dr. Angela-Neal Barnett, envisions this innovative CD-ROM as a tool that will quite valuable to colleges and universities, within communities, or for any institution that provides programs aimed at bringing people of color into professional positions.

As part of Dr. Neal-Barnett’s continued commitment of outreach, and on behalf of the Cleveland Foundation, profits from Believe and Succeed will be used to defray travel expense costs for *selected students’ graduate application process.

* Students from divisions and departments which have purchased Believe and Succeed will be eligible to apply.

This CD contains a goldmine of useful information that serves as a survival kit for undergraduates of color contemplating [entering a] graduate school in psychology. The step-by-step program demystifies the application process and is enhanced by motivational encouragement, colorful graphics, interviews, relevant information for ethnic minority students and helpful links. No ethnic minority undergraduate who wants to be a psychologist should be without it!
–Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Ph.D., University of Oregon

“…This [Believe and Succeed] preparatory process is credibly balanced, realistically encouraging, and technologically well presented.”
- Jeffrey M. Smith, Ph.D., Creighton University