Description:

Northwestern, Northeastern, North Carolina, and Notre Dame - schools sound so similar. How do you sort it out?
This App helps visually oriented students by presenting a map of each school on a clock chart where "Bigger means more."
More students who are there, more students who come back, more students who apply, more students who get in, more students who get aid, more students with great SAT scores, more emphasis on academics, more emphasis on social life, more emphasis on quality of life, it is all there in the chart. Look carefully to find more or less, whatever you are looking for.
And the charts do show clear differences: Northwestern is not Northeastern, and not North Carolina, but it looks a whole lot like Notre Dame.
These charts help people extend the knowledge that they do have about one particular university to others they may be less familiar with. Every school shown is listed in the 2009 edition of the FISKE GUIDE TO COLLEGES. These schools are all good in one way or another. The key is in finding a good match that serves well now and in the future.
If you are good at recognizing differences with your eyes, perhaps an athlete or an artist, this app may be for you. If you are all about words and text, you will find this app wanting to be a book - which it is not!
This App can help you sort out why you may like two of the colleges you visited, but not the third. A more holistic demographic understanding can help improve the decision you make.
Strongest Programs are a key traction point for any school and are listed here, because some things do not show in the chart. Consider again Northwestern and Notre Dame.
Examples showing what a few representative shapes mean and how to quickly visually recognize these colleges can be found here:
➭http://gaitaware.com/shapes-and-names.html
➭http://gaitaware.com/matisse-goes-to-college.html