Unigo takes you to college

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Are you a high school student looking at colleges? Unigo has a unique site where students who are already in college share their experiences and tell you the good and bad about their campuses, which is often more credible and interesting than the marketing materials that the colleges themselves will share with you. You can see the perspective of certain groups of students like how do the jocks like the campus vs. how the engineering students view it. Jordon Goldman, CEO of Uniqo, tells me about the site and his company.

Tags: college, jordan goldman, startup, unigo, university

 

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Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 21, 2009 9:38 PM

Jordan Goldman is jumpy. 'Nother case of ADHD gone entrepreneur

Posted by Jason (not verified) on February 18, 2009 12:02 AM

This is a great idea; I particularly like Jordan's point that it helps expose kids to higher education that may not have college graduates in the family.

I'm not sure if this "user-generated review concept" exists in other areas yet, but I think that the same idea could be a useful tool for researching new and used cars...or any other product requiring a major investment. I'd love to hear about a car's true gas-mileage, reliability, and safety features from someone actually driving the car.

Nice work Unigo!

Posted by cancun (not verified) on February 12, 2009 7:46 PM

This would of been cool if this was around when I was deciding on a college.

Posted by Jeremy Johnson (not verified) on February 12, 2009 1:41 AM

Great interview guys -- love the "mythical unicorn student" reference.

Is Unigo going to be at SXSW?

Posted by Greg (not verified) on February 11, 2009 6:46 PM

My son is applying to college next year, and this is the most helpful site I've found so far. Great stuff here,my entire family will be spending a lot of time on Unigo in the coming months. Kudos! I showed this interview to my wife as well, and she thinks Jordan is "adorable."

Posted by Dave (not verified) on February 11, 2009 4:31 PM

Jordan Goldman is jumpy. 'Nother case of ADHD gone entrepreneur

Posted by Brian (not verified) on February 11, 2009 12:19 AM

Unigo is great!

A lot better than other crappy resources my kids tried using e.g www.campuscompare.com, www.communiversity.com, www.theu.com

Posted by Elizabeth King (not verified) on February 10, 2009 11:29 PM

What Unigo is doing is INVALUABLE to the application project. Major Kudos. Thanks for taking note of their work!