Here's a New Year's video we put together for students who have interviewed with us this year. Congratulations to those of you who got into your ED/EA schools! For those who are still waiting, don't lose hope and finish strong!
We look forward to interviewing more of you in the next few weeks! Due to the volume of sign-ups, we encourage people to sign up as quickly as possible in order to ensure the best chance of getting their desired times.
After months of testing during the early admissions wave, we are pleased to now formally announce the launch of our calendar sign-up system.
Our custom-designed sign-up system furthers our goal of making it as easy as possible for students to schedule and reserve an interview with us. By looking at our calendar students can quickly see open time slots for the city of their choice and then pick the time that works best for them. It also allows us to better handle the inevitable mad rush right before deadlines, as we can see the demand in advance and then add additional times as needed. Finally, we are most proud of the fact that students are able to pay online when they reserve their times, ensuring that they don’t have to spend additional time going to the bank to wire money.
While our technology and infrastructure requires some initial investment and effort, we believe that it is critical to make the process as straightforward as possible. Not only is it more convenient for the students, we are also able to offer more functionality at a very reasonable price.
Just how reasonable? This article in Inside Higher Ed lays it out pretty clearly (except that our value is even greater since there’s no limit on the number of schools to which we will provide the interviews). When one considers the both the value to the student and the value to the decision-maker of our proprietary interview platform, we think the choice becomes even clearer.
Today we had the honor of being featured in an article in Inside Higher Ed, the leading blog for the higher education world. Not only did they quote two individuals from our partner schools, they noted our incredible value.
Most importantly, IHE put our platform front and center (there was a screen shot of an actual interview from last year, which we provided with permission from the student). It is our technology that sets us apart: on the one hand, admission officers get to view an unscripted interview with the applicant, but at the same time we display the questions asked so that the admission officer can quickly process the video.
If you'd like to see that video for yourself, here's a link.
We thought it would be helpful to put together an online Q&A session about InitialView for admission officers in order to respond to the common questions everyone is asking.
Dr. Jerry Lucido, who serves in his personal capacity as InitialView's senior advisor, will also join us, as will Ashley Tjader, the Assistant Director of Admission for International Recruitment at Georgia Tech.
The call is scheduled for Friday, September 28, at 2PM EST / 11AM PST. Please email us here for an invitation.
