Archive for August, 2007
Is Your Email Correct on Cappex?
One of the things we noticed when looking through all the students who’ve signed up for Cappex is that sometimes people mistype their email address when signing up. Maybe they typed yaho.com instead of yahoo.com, or maybe they “fat fingered” their email address (for instance, they typed auser1243 instead of auser1234).
Whatever the cause, the effect was the same – they wouldn’t be able to get the benefits of Cappex. They couldn’t get their email validated. If they said they wanted to hear more from a college, the college might have a hard time reaching them via email. And so on.
So we did two things. First, new users are asked to enter their email twice, that’s a big help toward eliminating common typos. Second, we are now automatically looking for common typos as you type (gail.com instead of gmail.com, for instance) and warning you beforehand that your email address may contain a typo.
Bottom line, you won’t be successful on Cappex unless you have a valid email address with your profile … and we’re making it easier (we hope) for you to do just that.
If you have any feedback or suggestions on this feature or anything else on Cappex, let us know.
Cappex Promoter Scholarship
Good news — we’ve launched our new Cappex Promoter Scholarship. Some lucky social butterfly out there is going to win a $2000 scholarship AND a $1000 scholarship for one of their friends.
If you have an account on Cappex, you already know about all the great schools that have applied to you. It’s time to spread the word! Since Cappex is a new site, we’re looking for help in getting the word out. That’s where you guys come in. When you apply for the scholarship, you’ll get a link you can share with your friends and everyone else at your school. Everyone you sign-up gets you one step closer to winning the scholarship. We’ll send you periodic updates to let you know how you’re doing.
The program is just getting started, so it’s hard to tell you just how many friends you’ll need to attract in order to win.
If you haven’t heard about this scholarship yet, this link has the full details on the Promoter Scholarship. To get started just login, go to your scholarship tab, and click apply.
For those who have already applied, we’ve created a webpage of tools and tips where you’ll find links, banners, fliers, and sample emails to get you started. When you signed-up for the scholarship, you were assigned a promoter code. Just enter it on this page, and you’ll get access to all the tools. http://www.cappex.com/promote/
Someone is going to win – it might as well be you!
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Cappex in the Sun-Times!
Earlier we gave you a behind-the-scenes look at the college admissions process. Now the Chicago Sun-Times gives you a little peek behind the curtain at Cappex. What you’ll see: We are so high tech. I’m in the pic, which is always a good thing.
The Sun-Times refers to our video and podcast efforts. Some of our productions are part of this blog and click here to visit our podcast page.
The news is making its way around the blogosphere, too. Reecy over at The High School Blog is talking about the story.
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