A rave review in the Sep 20, 2008 New York Times says this new website offers offers “an unfiltered, detailed, often somewhat eccentric view of campuses all over the country.”

Unigo.com is a free, gigantic, student-generated guide to North American colleges for prospective applicants and their families.

The Times article contrasts the dynamism of the site with the staid publications such as the US News rankings, The Princeton Review and Fiske.

We tried to login today and found the site was slow, probably becuase of the interest the Times coverage caused. It’ll be fascinating to see how useful families find this unfiltered reporting of life at the college of their choice.

Good luck unigo!

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