Upclique Receives Over $350,000 in Funding to Simplify College Search Online
Online Networking Site for High School Students, Parents, Counselors and Administrators Poised to Change College Admissions and Recruiting; Earns Endorsement From National Catholic College Admission Association
(firmenpresse) - CLEVELAND, OH -- (Marketwire) -- 03/29/12 -- Upclique (), the free online college recruitment network, today announced that it has finalized a round of institutional financing from The Ancora Group of Beachwood, OH, raising their total to over $350,000 to date. The funding will enable Upclique to continue building out its network and expand site features that connect students with their perfect school, and guide them along the search process. Founded in 2011, the company today also announced an endorsement from the National Catholic College Admission Association (National CCAA), a group of more than 200 colleges across the country, which will use Upclique as the centerpiece of its recruiting efforts.
"We're thrilled about the momentum we've had so far and about embarking on our next steps in making the college search process as easy, affordable and effective as possible," said Matt Benton, co-founder of Upclique. "College search can be a stressful time for all involved -- students are faced with more options than ever before, counselors need the right support to properly guide, and college administrators are tasked with finding just the right students, with less budget. We believe everyone should have the chance to go to the school that is perfect for them, and we built Upclique to be the essential networking tool to help them get there."
Upclique reinvents the college search process by helping students, counselors and academic institutions find and engage with one another for free online. The site lets students search and build a list of potential fits based on criteria like major, location, and campus life, and gives school counselors one central place to approve grades, and build relationships with colleges for all the students under their guidance. College recruiters can in turn search for students who fit what they are looking for, whether through grades, athletics, extracurricular activities, interests or college preferences, and then send a connection request directly to those students to start the dialogue.
"College recruiting is big business, and it's one of the contributing factors driving tuition prices through the roof. The problem? Colleges still market themselves like they did 20 years ago, with glossy brochures, expensive mailing lists -- all this despite the new technologies out here," added Benton. "Year after year, colleges spend millions on third party companies to recruit -- an average $2,450 per student."
To streamline its own efforts, the National CCAA has signed on with Upclique to help with recruiting across its entire network of colleges and high schools in the US. "There's a lot of competition out there to find and attract the right students, and Upclique will be a fantastic partner to help us start the conversation with students who are looking for colleges like ours," said past president and acting board member of the National CCAA David Armstrong, J.D. "Upclique will revolutionize the way that colleges search for the right students, but more importantly it takes the mystery out of the search process and puts the power of knowledge in the hands of the family, where it should be."
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Upclique was founded in 2011 to reinvent the college search process. The networking site connects high school students, their parents and guidance counselors with college admissions personnel to manage the entire college process in one place, for free. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
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