THE STUDENT BEHIND THE ROUNDUP
For a solid year at UT Austin I listened to people complain about the exact same thing: links were all over the freaking place. I always thought it'd be pretty nice to have links in one place. One day, I didn't have anything better to do.
It started with UT but turns out links are all over everywhere. Now we've got the Aggies and Beavers (my alma mater) in the herd, with more on the way.
If your school isn't here yet, holler and I'll wrangle it.
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Spot something off? A broken link, a wrong page, or one that's missing? Let me know, or use the suggest-a-link box on any school page.
I rounded up the student prep tools I wish I'd had when I was starting out: SAT and test prep, essay and application help, net-price calculators, a head start on a Roth IRA, and student discounts worth actually using. All the stuff I wish I had, gathered in one spot so nobody has to hunt for it. Find them over on College Roundup and the Student Deals page.
A lot of folks landing here haven't even picked a school yet, so I wrangled up a spot for that too: College Roundup, a pixel search across 100 public universities. Filter by size, cost, test scores, conference, Greek life, and city, or take the matcher and it hands you six best-fit schools in about a minute. If you're still deciding where to ride, check it out.
Link Cowboy is up and rounding up. Three schools are live and searchable, the Student Deals page is open, and the plan from here is simple: add schools the herd asks for, keep every link honest, and post a note here whenever something worth knowing lands. Spotlights on students and clubs are coming down the trail. Check back, or request your school and be first.
MORE ON THE WAY