It's not always easy to find a reliable college guidance counselor. As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, this task has become even more difficult as students shifted to virtual mode of learning and in-person interactions have been restricted to certain extent.
(A)IGO2COLLEGE (as in I-go-to-college) is a web-application designed to help students stay on top of the college application process in the absence of a college guidance counselor. It answers general questions pertaining to academics, tuition and fees, college application requirements, etc.
Try it here https://aigo2college.netlify.app/
We took a rather unconventional approach for the UI that's easy to navigate even for an internet novice. We tried to follow Facebook's principles of inclusivity to ensure no one is left out.
Application was trained on 550+ statements based on the 2019 global ranking of universities. Goal was to train these statements well enough to respond to users with accurate information pertaining to their dream universities.
Ask stuff like:
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What gpa do I need to get into Harvard University?
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What SAT score do I need to get into Stanford University?
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Am I still required to take the SAT for UPENN?
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How high is National University of Singapore ranked?
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What is the acceptance rate for Catholic University of Leuven .... and many more questions from our ever learning College assistant.
Dataset is collected from a variety of sources with the most up-to-date information. Our database is based on global ranking. The cutoff for the database was around rank 80.
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(A)IGO2College uses the wit.ai to better understand users' query and provide them with reliable results.
We also use Fuzzy string matching as a safety net in case users get a University spellings wrong to provide an even better user experience.
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Scale it for our mobile users.
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Expanding our database with more universities, including liberal arts colleges and community colleges and adding info like what all majors are provided by the universities.
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Making the app more personalised by providing an interactive dashboard for each user and giving analysed results for what university they should apply to given their scores and achievements.
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Choice to link accounts with third party apps like google calendar or facebook to set reminders for important dates.
- Much of the college data wasn't that easily scrapable and not even search-able when we collected our data. Many universities don't keep their sites updated either. So we wish to kick-start this crowdsourced wikipedia-like information database so that people are more informed while applying to colleges.