CollegeEdge Goes Live on Netscape Netcenter For the Back-to-School Season.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1998-- New "MatchMaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. " Feature Helps Students Find The Right College From a Database of 5,844 Colleges and Universities CollegeEdge, the most popular site for college information and services, today announced the launch of co-branded pages on the Netscape Netcenter Education channel produced by Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT). Since pioneering the most comprehensive web site for college-bound students and families in March of 1996, CollegeEdge has become the most widely used resource for millions of students, parents and guidance counselors. "Through Netcenter, we can help people receive the most comprehensive information available on higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. ," said Jerrell Jimerson, vice president of consumer channels at Netscape. "CollegeEdge is an excellent resource for our members - whether students, guidance counselors or college admissions officers - looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. college information. We're pleased to offer members the college information they need on Netcenter." "We created CollegeEdge to increase access to higher education while simplifying the process of going to the institutions of higher learning higher learning n. Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level. ," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Young Shin, president and co-founder of CollegeEdge. "By co-branding our most popular services with leading portals like Netscape Netcenter, we can provide the most valuable college guidance services to the greatest number of college-bound students and parents." Through Netscape Netcenter, students and parents can access CollegeEdge's most popular services completely free of charge: -0-
- identify colleges that match their interests and criteria
from a database of 5,844 colleges
- research detailed profiles of each college
- use an intelligent agent to allow colleges to recruit them
without releasing their identity
- send an inquiry conveniently via the web to thousands of
colleges
- apply completely on-line to several hundred top colleges and
universities
- view advice & information on financial aid in addition to
calculating their "expected family contribution"
- interactively search a database of scholarships containing
$1.2 billion in award money
About CollegeEdge CollegeEdge, a San Francisco-based private company, develops, hosts and manages web-based career & college guidance and college admissions services for thousands of high schools, outreach programs and higher education institutions. CollegeEdge pioneered an innovative, on-line application for admission service with seven Boston-area universities in 1996 and is now the most widely used web-based admissions service with over half a million admissions transactions processed in the past application year. With CollegeEdge, three distinct parties (universities, high schools and students) are brought together to make better decisions, complete complex transactions and ease communications. Leading higher education institutions use CollegeEdge's innovative, fully-hosted web admissions service to recruit students, process inquiries, schedule events and interviews, and receive applications for admission. In addition, over two thousand high school, community college and outreach program customers use career & college guidance service to provide comprehensive counseling to their student body. The award-winning CollegeEdge.com is now the most widely used higher education resource on the web. CollegeEdge marketing alliances include Excite, Netscape Netcenter, Business Week, NCEOA/TRIO, CPP cpp - C preprocessor. (Myers-Briggs and Strong assessments), PAR (Holland assessment), and other organizations. Higher education institutions using CollegeEdge admissions service include: Babson, Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing , Boston Univ., Brandeis, Brown, Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame , MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Univ., Ohio State, Penn State, Princeton, Purdue, Rice, RPI RPI - Rockwell Protocol Interface , Stanford, Syracuse, Tufts, Univ. of Arizona, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Cincinnati, Univ. of Georgia, Univ. of Iowa, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Univ. of Rochester, Univ. of Southern California, Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of Texas-Austin, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Washington Univ. , Wellesley, Wesleyan, Yale and others. Web site: http://www.CollegeEdge.com/ Note to Editors: Netscape, Netscape Navigator, Netscape Certificate Server, Netscape ONE, SuiteSpot and the Netscape N and Ship's Wheel logos are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. in the United States and other countries. Other Netscape logos, product names and service names are also trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation, which may be registered in other countries. Other product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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