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College Counseling and Technology

Post Date: Oct 12, 2008 4:55 a.m.
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Support your high school counselors in their efforts to guide their students through the college search and application process with three helpful Web sites. Facebook - guess what many of our students are already doing? Yes, using social networking sites to connect with students of prospective colleges and universities. Unigo - a sharing platform for students in U.S. colleges offering information including photos and videos. Remember your visiting colleges so many years ago with the student guides so enthusiastically walking backwards sharing information with your tour group? Think of Unigo as the 21st century alternative that maybe includes less biased information. College Personality Quiz - It is debatable how helpful the U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings are in supporting counselor efforts to help students choose the right schools for their personalities and needs. But the folks at U.S. News provide a nice survey tool in the College Personality...

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