Category: admissions and student recruitment

FJ Gaylor launches new photo website

FJ Gaylor Photography, which specializes in admissions and student recruitment photography, announces a new website showcasing samples of the company’s work with various colleges and universities across the country. “After going through roughly 200,000 images, we narrowed it down to under 200 images that portray what we do on campus for colleges and universities.” The site is classy and tastefully executed as a true showcase of the firm’s work. It’s worth a look. The FJ Gaylor blog is worth checking out, too, so you can find out what prospective students are searching for in terms of images.

USphere meets TechCrunch

Glad to see a member of my blogroll, USphere, get a nice writeup on TechCrunch on Tuesday. (Actually it wasn’t the blog on my blogroll that got the writeup, but the startup company of the same name.)

As TechCrunch puts it:

Usphere lets students fill out a single application and be considered by their network of colleges. When you’ve completed the application, it’s tossed into their applicant search engine and only accessible by the 33 schools in their network. If a school likes you, they email you an acceptance letter complete with a bottom line price tag to attend. The application service costs $65, although they have several free college search tools.

Interesting timing, in light of what U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has been saying about the need to simplify the “Byzantine” financial aid application process.

Spellings criticized the cumbersome federal financial aid application process, calling it “redundant, confusing, Byzantine and broken … a maze of 60 Web sites, dozens of toll-free numbers and 17 different programs.”

Maybe USphere can try to help Secretary Spellings develop the killer financial aid app app.