My College Advisor Launches Online College Selection, Admissions and Finance System

After years of research, My College Advisor is now making available the only US patented college selection system, incorporated into a comprehensive program for finding, getting into and financing a student’s best fit college.
MCA has put together a team of personal college consultants dedicated to helping students identify and get into their best fit schools. […]

Make Something Cool, Win $10,000

AT&T has just announced its 2010 Big Mobile On Campus Challenge. If you’ve got the skills to make an innovative e-learning mobile app, the $10,000 scholarship that goes to the winner will definitely help pay the bills. Last year’s winners created an app called Rover that connects Harvard students, faculty, administrators, and local merchants.

And the HP Better Together Giveaway Winner Is….

Ishmeet Dang, who entered the contest on the Unigo Facebook Fan Page on August 20 at 12:42am. 743 people entered the drawing between Thursday, August 20th at 12:00 am and Monday, August 24th at 11:59 am. The winner was chosen using a random number generator.
Ishmeet wins an awesome HP Better Together package consisting […]

Laptop Giveaway Alert: Our HP Better Together Lottery Starts Now!

Win 2 Laptops: The HP Mini 110 AND the powerful HP dv6, Syncables software that allows you to transfer your files from the Mini to the dv6, and a Timbuk2 backpack to carry your winnings in!
Start Date: Thursday, August 20th at 12:00 am
End Date: Monday, August 24th at 11:59 am
To Enter: Become a fan of […]

The Laptop Bundle College Students will Love

When I was in college, everyone was obsessed with Louis Vuitton knockoff purses and the 5 lb. MacBook. So I asked for the latter as my graduation present, thinking it would come in handy while commuting to work and relaxing at the neighboring Starbucks. Unfortunately, I quickly realized that it was still too large […]

Get More College News in One Place!

Love college news but don’t have time to scour all your favorite websites every day for the good stuff? The Prereq just partnered with TheCampusBuzz.com, whose editors comb through hundreds of college-related blog posts and articles each day to find the best of the best.
They break it down into categories including: Admissions, Career, Health, Money, […]

College Ushers In Digital Age; Stops Giving Out Email

Wow, I feel old. The New York Times reports that Boston College will not give out school e-mail addresses to newly-enrolled students, since so many students are showing up to school with their own pre-existing digital addresses. But don’t worry, incoming BC freshmen–your dreams of a university account of your very own aren’t completely dashed. […]

Microsoft Brings the Future to Colleges

Costs of everything from bean bags to book bags are skyrocketing. So where to look if you want to distract yourself from the downward-spiraling economy? The future, of course! Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s new chief long-term strategist, kicked off his five college tour yesterday at Princeton University. Mundie tells The Daily Princetonian the goal of […]

Carnegie Mellon Student Sells iPhone App, Justifies Nerdiness

Jeffrey Grossman, a student at Carnegie Mellon University just cashed in. Flixster, the movie based social media network, has acquired Grossman’s iPhone app (appropriately named Movies.app) for an undisclosed amount. Suffice to say, the kid probably made bank. It’s the first known acquisition of an iPhone app.
And if that wasn’t a sweet enough […]

MTV Misses U

Where would MTV be without college students? Who else has the patience to sit through 3-hour blocks of mindless chatter on The Hills or watch Making the Band at 2 a.m.? But since the Internet has taken away all of MTV’s precious, precious youth, with things like Facebook and YouTube (you know, where […]

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