What is Zinch?
Zinch is an interactive community of high school students and colleges. Any high school student in the world, free of charge, can create a comprehensive online profile to help optimize their exposure in the college recruitment process. Students actively engage in the college admissions process by sharing information with prospective colleges through their social medium, the Web. What does this mean for you as a college or university? Simple: better information + better communication = better fit. Click on each item below to learn more.
* Uncover talent to fit your school's needs.
Each year, nearly 800,000 students intending to go to college take the SAT and/or ACT, yet do not take a practice test. Those students, including over a quarter-million minorities, will not be contacted by colleges or universities in their junior year. Countless additional students are limited only by their ignorance of the college admissions process, access to quality counseling, or socioeconomic status. Which students that would enhance your school's student body are going under the radar?
* Personalize your recruiting (yet with no added effort).
Take a more targeted approach to recruiting. Identify students based on much more than a test score. Search from over 400 data fields. View the difficulty of classes they’ve taken, leadership skills or family backgrounds. Through students' online portfolio view their talents in writing, art, music or athletics.
Because Zinch allows students to share so much about themselves, you are now able to send more relevant and personalized information to students. If Sally likes drama and dance, perhaps you can send information about your performing arts program, etc. Because better student information is shared, you can now make your messaging much more meaningful. The Wizard, a new zinch feature, allows you to accomplish personalization (yet with no added effort).
Because Zinch allows students to share so much about themselves, you are now able to send more relevant and personalized information to students. If Sally likes drama and dance, perhaps you can send information about your performing arts program, etc. Because better student information is shared, you can now make your messaging much more meaningful. The Wizard, a new zinch feature, allows you to accomplish personalization (yet with no added effort).
* Anytime, anywhere...you can reach out to Zinch students.
Use Zinch at anytime throughout the year. New students get on Zinch daily. No need to wait for standardized tests to do recruiting anymore. Find the hard to reach students, the average students, the great students. At any given time, you can search out students based on your specific school needs. You can be sipping on a Mai Tai on the beach in the Bahamas...and still be recruiting high school students. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
* Interact with students on their stage, the web.
As an organization started by college students, we understand the power and possibilities of online interaction. The Internet is where today’s high school students want to communicate with each other and companies/organizations offering something of value. Zinch provides you the tools to join this online movement by providing a platform to reach students in a more personalized, dynamic, and familiar way.
Today's high school students are always connected- connected through text messaging, instant messaging, email, and through the websites that effectively allow human interaction. Look no further than the few popular sites that dominate teenagers' time and attention. Zinch provides schools direct, real-time access to students and their profiles, and our communication tools will ensure that your school has success reaching out to these students.
Today's high school students are always connected- connected through text messaging, instant messaging, email, and through the websites that effectively allow human interaction. Look no further than the few popular sites that dominate teenagers' time and attention. Zinch provides schools direct, real-time access to students and their profiles, and our communication tools will ensure that your school has success reaching out to these students.
* Enough hype. The proof is in the Zinch pudding.
Zinch yields results that are unattainable through traditional recruiting methods. We may be guilty of loosely using college buzz words, so let the numbers do the talking. Not only does Zinch allow for meaningful search and interaction, but we also clearly present the results. How many students have you searched? How have they responded? Are you maximizing your outreach and recruitment efforts? Zinch tells you right away! Be sure to check out our case studies page for real numbers that back up our claims.
* Become a Zinch-friendly school today!
Zinch is not in the business of simply selling student data. Rather, participating colleges join the Zinch community and are able to:
- Search out any student in the Zinch community
- Communicate with any of these students through Zinch messaging
- Export student data for traditional recruitment; glossy brochures for the parents :)
- Edit their school profile
- Engage with students through forums, blogs, and message boards
SIGN UP today!
- Search out any student in the Zinch community
- Communicate with any of these students through Zinch messaging
- Export student data for traditional recruitment; glossy brochures for the parents :)
- Edit their school profile
- Engage with students through forums, blogs, and message boards
SIGN UP today!
