Educational Technology

January 22, 2012

Virtual College Counseling for $100 an Hour

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:29 am

By Eric Hoover, Chronicle of Higher Ed

In the Internet Age, it’s been said, high-school students can search for colleges in their pajamas. Now they can have a face-to-face talk with a college counselor while sitting in their living rooms. A company called Unigo has started an online service that allows students to participate in one-one-one video chats with counselors from public and private secondary schools. The charge: $100 for 60 minutes. Jordan Goldman, Unigo’s founder and chief executive, describes the venture as a cost-effective way of leveling the precollege playing field. “College counseling in America, despite the best efforts of many amazing counselors, is broken,” he says. “There are too many students who don’t get enough college counseling.”

http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/virtual-college-counseling-for-100-an-hour/29467

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