College Counseling and Technology

October 12, 2008

By David Carpenter

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Support your high school counselors in their efforts to guide their students through the college search and application process with three helpful Web sites.

Facebook- guess what many of our students are already doing? Yes, using social networking sites to connect with students of prospective colleges and universities.

Unigo- a sharing platform for students in U.S. colleges offering information including photos and videos. Remember your visiting colleges so many years ago with the student guides so enthusiastically walking backwards sharing information with your tour group? Think of Unigo as the 21st century alternative that maybe includes less biased information.

College Personality Quiz- It is debatable how helpful the U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings are in supporting counselor efforts to help students choose the right schools for their personalities and needs. But the folks at U.S. News provide a nice survey tool in the College Personality Quiz that helps students do some reflection about who they are before they jump into the college search pursuit. Your counselors will love having one more tool to help in the self discovery curriculum they use in the early years of high school.

What other college oriented sites would you recommend that leverage the read-write-network Web?
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Tags: college counseling, Facebook, unigo

Shaunigan on October 12, 2008 at 8:07 pm

Three interesting sites, although I think there is little debate among counselors re rankings values. It does more to cloud the search for quality than it does to help. As for the personality quiz, it is a direct rip-of of Bill antinoff’s book called College Match. For some reason, USNEWS does not credit him, nor does the quiz actually work in its present configuration.

I really love UNIGO and where it might be going. This may well be the real deal.

And since you asked for other sites:
http://www.internationalcounselor.org
my blog on college admissions.

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David Carpenter on October 13, 2008 at 10:42 am

I will add the College Match to our list of book purchases and share your blog with our college advisors. Just the kind of information I hoped the post would bring. Thanks.

SHaunigan on October 14, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Hey make sure they
1) Check out http://www.OACAC.com this is the association for them. We are blogging now (OVERSEAS ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING)
2) Join

Full disclosure: I am on the board of this professional association.

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