Find Your Dream College in a Zinch

Many have felt the anxiety of the final years of high school, sifting through admissions websites of difference universities hoping to find the right place. A new website hopes to fix that by centralizing all universities in one place. As an added twist, it also acts as a social network. Zinch.com hopes to help students find their dream college while proclaiming “you are more than a test score.”

Over 400,000 students from a supported 19,000 high schools have already created a profile in the short nine months the site has been active. It’s users find familiarity in filling out a profile about themselves just as they would on Facebook, yet not all the questions are in the norm. While asking questions regarding ACT, SAT and AP test scores along with other questions an admissions counselor would ask, colleges gain the opportunity to recruit students from across the country on a more personal level.

Why? It’s focus is not on test scores. In fact, the mission of the site is to show that each individual is “more than a test score.” Naturally, the site has ample room for civic and leadership to play a major role in how it characterizes a person.

Perhaps Zinch’s creators said it best:
“High school students want to be discovered by a college that is the right fit for them. They want to know if applying to that college will be worth the time, effort, and cost. Colleges want to find, and students want to be found. ”

With over 605 colleges and growing, students are able to see all of the statistics they need just by typing the college of their choice into the search. Delving through the mazes known as admissions websites was previously known as the norm, but no more.

The facebook-style approach is meant to captivate the next generation student, where mailers and phone calls have become less effective. Students will find with this multitude of information at their fingertips making the college search has become significantly more simple.