MyCollegeSTREAMS

MyCollegeSTREAM web app simplifies the tedious college search experience by taking advantage of each university's distributed and disorganized social media pages and organizing it into valuable categories for students to browse and compare before making their college choices. These accounts share important information, but how are they accessed?

Today an interested student, for example, must take the time to search, like, or follow each individual college, team, organization, or degree program’s account that they are interested in either online or via social media. For many, the time spent searching for this information quickly becomes tedious and stressful. So, we have created a better way.

We allow the user to login with Facebook, select their favorite college campuses, and select any of 15 different areas of interest that a college campus might have like technology, community service, student life, etc. A student can also see what colleges their friends like and what interests they have.

The combined and customized flow of information from these curated accounts is something that we like to call a “stream”. These college streams allow users to get relevant information from thousands of different places on social media and can be the deciding factor for students choosing one of many schools - a decision that will affect the rest of their lives.

The insights gained from the data produced by the app could be very useful to universities interested in either recruiting or advertising to certain student demographics. We will offer these colleges a way to access this data and use the app as a medium to connect to students who have shown interest in their school.