College Admissions

Posted by Marc Hodak on April 6, 2008 under Self-promotion | Comments are off for this article

Right about now, high school students across the country are getting their verdicts on where they were admitted, or not. For the hundreds of thousands who were applying to selective institutions, this is the last stage of a decision making process that began last summer. This process included decisions about which schools to apply to, early versus regular applications, financial aid considerations, etc.

As one can imagine, any tool that can bring a little sense of control to this grind is a welcome help. My older guy, Max, came up with just such a tool. College Admissions collects information from users (i.e., a college applicants), and returns some user-specific information to help them decide where to apply and their odds of getting in. Max used a proto-type of this system to get into Duke. As with most things in this Internet Age of network effects, the more people who use this tool, the better it works, and the more it spreads. Thousands of students have already used College Admissions in applying for the upcoming freshman year, offering a lot of positive feedback.

Those of us with high school juniors know that the process is just beginning for a whole new round of kids. If you know kids ready to start down this road, especially they are on Facebook, they will probably encounter this application. But feel free to send this link to them, anyway: http://app2.collegeproject.net/. That way, when you wish them good luck, and they will at least know what their odds are!