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Campus Crawler
Designers: Sarah Harkins & Lindsey Miller
Developers: Allen Ahner, Udoka Anugwo &
Joshua Hartley

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Introduction to
Campus Crawler
• Purpose:
• Help incoming college
freshmen find a school
that fits their needs
• Create comparisons
between two schools
• Allow users to save a list
of schools they’re most
interested in

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Target Audience
• Potential College Students
• High School Juniors and Seniors
• Parents or others involved in the
decision

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Market Research
• “The American Freshman:
National Norms Fall 2012”
Survey
• University of California—
Los Angeles
• 192,912 first-year students
from 238 U.S. four-year
colleges and universities
• Students entered college
in Fall 2012
Results
• 45.6 % of students chose their
university/college based on the
amount of Financial assistance
they received
• 45.6% of students surveyed felt
that the cost of attending college
was the 4th most important factor
in determining which school to
attend
• 38.8 % of students chose their
school based on its size
Source: http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2013/01/31/freshmen-students-say-rankings-
arent-key-factor-in-college-choice

5. + Parameters
- Tuition
- In state
- Out of State
- In District
- Financial Aid
- Percentage of students receiving aid
- Average grant aid amount
- Average Pell Grant amount
- Average Federal loan amount
- Admission Requirements
- GPA
- Class Rank
- School Record
- College Prep Program
- Recommendations
- Sample Work
- Admission Test Scores
- Foreign Language Testing
- Other Tests
• Demographics
- Total Men and Total Women
- Race

6. + Data
• National Center for
Education Statistics
• http://nces.ed.gov/ipe
ds/datacenter/Default.
aspx
• Nearly 8,000 Schools
• 14 Data Files
• Institutional
Characteristics
• Enrollments
• Completions
• Student Financial Aid &
Net Price
• College Navigator
• http://nces.ed.gov/coll
egenavigator/
• Data updated yearly

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Design:
Simple and Clean
Color Scheme
• Shades of Blue and Orange
Fonts
• vintage fair
• Helvetica
Logo within the app
Logo in the App store

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Starting Page
• Search bar at the top will let
users begin searching for
schools
• Table is auto-populated by
locations nearby

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Navigation Menu
When the menu icon in the upper left
corner is pressed:
• The app’s main pages appear in the
menu
• The current page’s contents push to
the right
• The pages in the drawer link to
Search, About,Top Picks (colleges
that have been saved for
comparisons)

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Search
• Search by state or by school name
• Table will auto-complete as the user
types schools

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Selecting from Search Results
 Option 1: Select a single
school
 Displays the results for that
school
• Users click
the arrow
button to the
right of the
school
they’re
interested in
• Opens a
new page
with
information
about the
single
school
• Categories
can be
clicked to
get an
expanded
view
• Button at the
bottom can
add it to Top
Picks
• Link to the
school’s
webpage is
found in the
top bar

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Selecting from Search Results
 Option 2: Select schools to
compare
• If it is their
first time
using the
selection
feature, a
menu will
appear
confirming
the addition
to the list.
They will
then be
prompted to
visit the list
to begin
comparing
schools
• If they have
already
used the
selection
tool, then
the site will
allow users
to continue
selecting
schools. A
button at the
top of the
page will
then save to
Top Picks

13. +
Compar
e
Admissions Demographics

14. + Compare
Financial Aid Tuition

15. +
College iPhone & Web Apps
• Admitted.ly
• College Board
• College
Confidential
• College Data
• CollegeNet
• CollegeToolKit
• CollegeView

16. + Why Campus
Crawler?
• Available apps give
limited or unspecific
data
• Most don’t allow
users to compare
• Users can’t get total
data for one school
• None include all of
the information
available from NCES
• Some have lengthy
account registrations
or quizzes before
you can view schools

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Viability
 Data is updated yearly, so app can be updated
 Could be taken over by outside groups with an interest in
helping students find the right school
 U.S. News and World Report
 CollegePrep
 NCES
 Could be merged with existing college app
 Admitted.ly
 College Confidential
 ACT College Search

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Version 2
- Connect to Social Media
- Road Trip feature: pin point
schools to visit on a map and
get directions for a college
visit road trip
- Create To Do Lists and
connect to the iPhone
Calendar
- Organize Top Picks into
categories
- User Profile
- App will suggest schools for
user based on selected
parameters

19. + QUESTIONS?