Got Accepted.com
I, like many grad school applicants out there, have been waiting for months for graduate school decisions to come in. At this level, it gets a little ambiguous about how one gets in. So many individual factors are used to figure out who fills the spots for a given program. More than any other factor, the competition matters. One year there might be 50 applicants, another year over 200. So the qualifications for admission go up and down dramatically.
In comes Got Accepted.com, a web application designed for pulling together admissions decisions from across the country. This tool helps applicants know what’s happening with others and how their programs are making their decisions. It runs using CakePHP and hopefully will grow to include a lot of application decisions.
I’m pleased with where it’s at, but I anticipate adding more features down the road, like user-specific tracking of schools and programs. What I think is most useful in the current release is the comments section that allow users to discuss a particular decision in more detail.
Anyhow, the beta version is up and running. Check it out and let me know what you think ;)
Auburn
Jul 3rd, 2008, 12:00 pm
It looks very nice! Hopefully lots of people will use it--good idea, and very nice looking.