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The Tell-All Campus Tour

Posted by timothy on from the oh-it's-probably-not-all dept.

theodp writes "Want to check out colleges without the bother of having to read about them? Well, my YouTube-loving friend, the NY Times reports that old-school elephantine dead-tree college guidebooks may be a thing of the past thanks to startup unigo.com, which has launched a free, gigantic, student-generated web-based guide to North American colleges that's laden with photos, Flip-shot videos and reviews (OK, you may have to do some reading)."

3 of 34 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I can't imagine schools will be too happy by swimin · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are already sites that host reviews of colleges from students, and most of them are negative, because the whiners are the ones who bother to write up a review. One such site is: StudentsReview And, no I don't work for them.

  2. The article was better than the website. by mongoose(!no) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd have to say that NY Times article is more interesting than their website, which seems to be failing under the load of the New York Time and Slashdot. I don't see how the site, from the description in the article is any different than any other web startup, trying to change how an established industry works. I do hope they make colleges and those college guidebooks rethink how they do business. Unfortunately, business interests have taken over higher education, and many schools are more concerned about portraying a good image, rather than actually fixing problems.

  3. similar site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    this site does a similar thing:
    http://www.theu.com/