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whadu · Level 49: GameShark **Posts:** 37915 **Timestamp:** Thu Sep 18, 08 8:32 AM

acedmagazine: After a thorough examination of his own college application process was done by New York Times reporter Jacques Steinburg, Jordan Goldman began his plans to create a database of documents, reviews and videos from the 225 top US colleges. The result of this project is Unigo.com, a website with all the facts and opinions on colleges broken down for high school students.

"The college resource market is typified by costly print guidebooks which generally have only a few pages of information, no photos, no videos, no interactivity and little insight from the real experts -- the students who attend the schools," said Goldman.

Based almost entirely off of student contributions, Unigo is truly by the students, for the potential future students. All of the articles on the website can be easily rated, commented on or flagged in order to give high school students the absolute best perspective on each college.

The site will also offer an opportunity for high school and college students to create profiles and communicate about the college experience, providing the type of information a high school student could never find in a brochure.

"It's frankly incredible that this hasn't been done before," said Chuck Hughes, a former Senior Admissions Officer at Harvard. "Unigo gives high school students and parents an unprecedented volume of the content they need, centered around one of life's most stressful decisions. And it gives college students all the reviewing, video-sharing, photo-sharing, document-sharing and networking capabilities now familiar to web users everywhere -- but all in one place, and with a purpose."

Source: acedmagazine.com
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