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Do you go to one of the Hottest Colleges in America?

Monday, January 5th, 2009

As warm-blooded creatures in our prime, it’s no wonder there’s insatiable curiosity over which college is home to the best looking students. Even college grads want to take pride in knowing that their diplomas hail from a stronghold of social “10’s”.

Finally, there’s a site dedicated to putting this hot topic to rest (while short circuiting keyboards everywhere with drool).
Thanks to the budding web entrepenuer, Bryan Roy, at University of Arizona, college students nationwide are enthusiastically stepping up to the challenge of earning their bragging rights.
Roy’s latest creation, HottestCollegeinAmerica.com, is a “completely user-based interactive reality search for the sexiest campus in our nation.”  Students can submit photos of their best looking peers and monitor how attractive their school “looks” against rival college cohorts. The competition is fueled by a star-rating system and weekly polls updating the “hottest school” rankings.

Show your outer beauty and school spirit with just a click.

Now after you find your perfect match college at CampusCompare, you can get a sneak peek at who you might be (lucky enough) to rub elbows with in class.

POSTED BY Gossip Girl IN In the News, Student Views, What's Hot, college parties
01.05.09
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Student Reviews: The New Way to Rate Colleges

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

This week, I already discussed the debates on college rankings. Some colleges (especially Ivy League schools that come out on top!) are all for ‘em, while other colleges don’t think they really show what makes their school different.

This debate piqued our interest here at CampusCompare. We know there are many colleges that offer unique experiences and sometimes rankings and numbers don’t do them justice.

That set the brainstorming gears in motion. What can we do to help college-bound students find out what a school is really about?

The answer was a no-brainer: Student Reviews.

College reviews written by students allows you to discover what the schools are really like - from an insider’s perspective, and about the things that matter most to kids (We all know that high school students are not completely interested in the same information on colleges as their parents are).

So that’s what we set out to do at CampusCompare - feature college reviews written by students, on different categories such as academics, social life, getting around, and campus services. This way you can get a feel for what the college is really like - from a student’s perspective.

Wanna see how it can help? Check out a college page and click on What Students Say.

One female student reviewer from Wellesley College in Massachusetts has this to say about social life: “Even though it’s a women’s college, men aren’t ridiculously hard to come by, especially considering Babson and MIT’s proximity.”

You can’t get that from a college rankings system.

So the bottom line is, if rankings help out, that’s great! But to widen your scope, you can also read up on what students think about the college and get an insider’s scoop.

If you’re already a college student and wish you had the same insight about your college then as you do now, you can write a review to help others make a smooth transition.  

POSTED BY Reisa Resource IN What's Hot
05.01.08
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