Battlefield High School
Professional School Counselor, Virginia
Your email caught my eye -- I am also from New Jersey originally, so I had to check out your website!
Thank you for including me on your email list. I am happy to provide feedback. I love the clean layout you have used for your formatting; I know exactly how to navigate around your site, and I am not always the most tech-savvy so I think it's accessible for a lot of people. Is it translatable to other languages when it detects English?
I would like to encourage you to consider options for removing programs that have had a deadline pass. Students might get confused and try and apply for something that has already closed. I also suggest adding years to your dates to minimize confusion; it might seem self-explanatory, but it might help to streamline a student's search.
Is there a "favorite" list of students where students can save their searches? This might be a way to keep them coming back to the website and increase traffic... Or a way for students to keep track of what they have already applied for? I am assuming that students apply through the website provided, but would you want to integrate the applications onto the website so it is all in one place?
I LOVE the idea of bringing programs and opportunities into one space for ease of access. I think this is a wonderful idea and it is executed almost perfectly. I am sure that you are still tweaking and perfecting as you go -- this is a GREAT project and I want to encourage you to keep it up!! As a high school counselor, I am always amazed by my students and what they come up with. Be sure to send this out to your local schools, you might even want to send this out to local news teams-- people love to hear about cool things that bright people are doing, so I want you to market yourself and your "product" as much as you are comfortable!!
Best of luck on your journey -- and continue to represent NJ well! Take good care.
Best wishes,