According to The Wichita Eagle, a Florida company called YOUniversityTV (You! Like Youtube! Get it?!) has put visits of more than 400 colleges across the country online. So if taking the campus tour of campus isn't high enough on marketing gloss for your tastes, now you can see cheesy packaged videos--without leaving the couch!
From the article:
And that's totally fair--if you've already read a school's website, the various reviews and rankings, talked to friends and teachers and generally researched a school, watching their cheeseball videos doesn't hurt.Because the average student visits three colleges before making a decision, co-founder Angelo Kotzamanis said the Web site gives students direction in their college searches.
"We give them a good flavor of the universities so that they aren't spending their time and money to visit those universities," he said.
Catch the full story here.
If you've got the stomach, you can try it for yourself here. If you can ignore the cheesiness and welcome-to-Mayberry earnestness of it all, you've got to be impressed by their breadth of schools. And heck, maybe it'll save you a trip.
In other news... if you've been following the University of Illinois clout-list scandal (covered here), the state's newly appointed Admissions Review Commission is scheduled to hold their first meeting today. Full article.
Finally, if you want proof that the apocalypse is here (or that people have just lost their minds), check out what not to wear to your admissions interview. That's right--it was a college-admissions-interview fashion show. Hosted by a $15,000-per-year (per student!) consultant (note to self: become a consultant)
Thankfully, your breath of fresh air:
[Kenyon College Dean of Admissions Jennifer] Delahunty’s review was emphatic and succinct: “I looked at the photos and burst out laughing,” she wrote in an e-mail message. “This whole concept is insanity!"Now if someone would just design fashions for us interviewers.... ---CJ
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