Students can get a good start on their college search by using an online college tool like the ones on Zinch and College Board to create a list of colleges based on personal interests......but before you create the list, this little quiz can help expand your understanding of all of the possibilities that are out there.
It's tied to The Student Guide to Writing: Playwriting, a competition and online resource developed by industry professionals to give those in schools and colleges the tools and inspiration to write a play, even if their experience of theatre is limited or non-existent.
While it may not be new, the College Navigator site is one of the most overlooked college search tools around.
The application service costs $65, although they have several free college search tools.
The Students app arrived at the same time that LinkedIn sunsetted most of its Student portal, which was initially launched in 2013 and included lowering the minimum age for using the network to 14, along with college-finding tools and job tips, but clearly wasn't getting enough interest or traction to keep updating it.
Peterson's offers one of the best college search tools on the Internet, and has a special section just for the culinary arts.
BigFuture, which was introduced last Tuesday, includes a college search tool revamped from the organization's previous planning site, as well as a scholarship search tool and a customizable action plan for students about to embark on journeys through the college admissions process.
Another, more cerebral way to observe the forces that power Silicon Valley is to drive through the Googleplex in Mountain View and see the Googlers — most of whom appear to still be of college age — tooling around on their bicycles and Segways.
Wealthfront's college savings tool is launching as part of Path, the company's automated financial planning app launched earlier this year.
Do your own: Our college ranking tool lets you choose what elements of a college education are most important to you, and how much they should matter.
With today's rollout of college collaboration tool "Groups For Schools", Facebook gets nostalgic for Zuck's Wirehog and lets students share un-copyrighted files up to 25mb.
