Communiversity: students recommend/condemn their own schools

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Communiversity: students recommend/condemn their own schools

by Danny Mendez Feb 23rd 2008

Communiversity is a new site which allows students of various colleges to post pictures and comments on their own school. Though opinions on the site can vary greatly and maybe leave visitors more confused than informed, this new service is an interesting and creative way to find out a little more about your next potential college.

College.SparkNotes and Collegeboard are two other sites to visit if you're researching new places to get those degrees. These sites are great sources of concrete information like tuition estimates, average SAT scores of attending students, majors offered, etc, and SparkNotes even conducts surveys on the general experience. But the sites still lack in information on the real student experience.

That's why Communiversity exists. Every school's page is managed entirely by students, so future undergrads get the info right from the horses mouthes. The site also allows students to upload pictures, so it's likely visitors will see portions of the campus less advertised. Though the new site is still small relative to its potential, news of Communiversity is spreading fast.

"Yesterday, I received a mass email from administration," says Randy Lester, an Azusa Pacific junior, "asking us to leave our opinions about APU on this new site. I hate this school, so i didn't. Still, it's a cool idea." The comments on APU's Communiversity page clash with Lester's opinion, so don't take him too seriously since each college isn't for everyone, which is why thorough research on your school of choice is of the utmost importance - utmost.

And yes, college can help you learn the meaning of "utmost", and it could also help you spill werds good (we haven't all graduated yet).

Tags: college, communiversity, research, school, search, university

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mike said 2:38PM on 2-24-2008

Another good site I found is www.lvutv.com. They look new but the site is full of videos of students that give you a real prospective of what the colleges are like.

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