Skip to main content
Add as a preferred source on Google


Survey of 2,000 Freshmen Finds Majority Discontent with College Choice

  • 01/21/09
A December 2008 survey by CollegeClickTV of 2,000 freshmen on 50 college campuses in the United States found 56 percent unhappy about some aspect of their college decision. The company said it’s taking on this challenge using the Web: Can Web 2.0 and social software help applicants get a more accurate picture of colleges and universities before they choose?

The company’s Web site offers streamed interviews with students, college-specific blogs, and other content and social networking features aimed at providing information that can help college applicants weigh their upcoming college choices. Glenn Pere, founder and CIO of CollegeClickTV, told Campus Technology, “Campus tours give you a very biased view of each campus--prospective students are led on the same route, and told generic, scripted facts about the school. What students don’t get, are real, unscripted stories and opinions. CollegeClickTV.com brings students the answers to questions they wouldn’t get on the standard campus tour: Is campus food good enough to splurge on the expensive meal plan? How’s Greek Life? Is it hard to find a parking spot on campus?” Pere points to the Web site’s 30,000 unscripted interviews with students, faculty, and others such as local merchants as a way applicants and their parents can access another view of the college environment and hopefully make more informed decisions.

CollegeClickTV has formed partnerships with U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, and CliffNotes to build more content and attract Web site visitors. It plans to have information on some 400 US-based campuses online in the first quarter of 2009.

Featured

  • digital brain integrating legal regulation and security interface

    Agentic AI Moves from Pilot Phase to Production, Bringing Governance to the Forefront

    New research from Caylent, an AI-focused Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Services Partner, found that enterprises are already moving agentic AI beyond pilots and into production environments. At the same time, organizations are putting strict conditions around autonomy, making governance and control the next major challenge for enterprise AI adoption.

  • Silhouettes of business professionals stand against a blurred futuristic city skyline at night, with a glowing digital network data connection

    It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy

    Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.

  • cloud computing circuit board background

    Report: Cloud Crime on the Rise as Attackers Exploit Trust

    CrowdStrike's 2026 Threat Hunting Report traces a multiyear shift from conventional intrusions toward attacks that exploit trusted identities, cloud services, AI systems and software dependencies.

  • abstract converging light streams and particles

    Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Open AI Model

    Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a new open AI model designed less as an all-purpose answer engine than as a fast workhorse inside long-running AI agent systems.