CampusBuddy and Cramster join forces to give Students the Academic Edge

With Back-to-School Fall 2010 in full swing, CampusBuddy is proud to announce our partnership with Cramster to help students get the "Academic Edge" in college. Starting today, all of Cramster’s members are entitled to Free Academic Edge accounts, including CampusBuddy’s Premium Data featuring over 100 million official grade records.

Wish you could get help with your homework from experts and see the textbook solutions to over 400 college textbooks?

Meet Cramster.com. The leading provider of online homework help for college and high school students lets you do just that! Armed with Cramster and CampusBuddy, you could rule the world (or maybe just your academic career).

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How it works:

1. Sign up to Cramster
2. Email CB@cramster.com with the email address you use to log in to Cramster
3. Cramster will send you a promo code for a free Academic Edge account.

Already a Cramster member? Complete steps 2 and 3 above and you’re in the money.

Don’t wait though, this offer is only good for the month of September!

CampusBuddy's University Facebook Page tabs launch today, Free of charge

Social media dominates college marketing today, but places a newfound burden on schools to frequently create relevant information.

CampusBuddy strives to make social media simpler for schools. Today we are releasing a free university Facebook Page tab that can easily be placed on any Fan Page on Facebook.

The tabs highlight each individual schools offerings and updates with new information automatically, helping page moderators access fresh information about their college with less work. The tab is available for anyone who operates a Facebook page-- from official university pages to niche fan-made pages.

USC's CampusBuddy Tab demonstrates the simple functionality, highlighting information about the college right on their Facebook page. (See USC's Fan Page here)

The CampusBuddy tab is available for all U.S. Colleges that have a Facebook network, totaling over 5,000 colleges in all. This tool will help colleges showcase their official school info and social features seamlessly on the school's Facebook page.

The tabs include:

--Official Admissions Statistics for the university.

--University Pictures

--Student Ratings

--A Campus Q&A Board

--Profiles of Current and prospective students

--Links to Department Pages for the university

To add the tab simply go to CampusBuddy's Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/CampusBuddy
Click "Add to page" and select the Facebook page you would like to add the University tab to!

Partner with CampusBuddy to become a featured college, making your university standout more to qualified prospective students utilizing CampusBuddy. The service is at no cost, like Facebook and Twitter, and directly engages the student community.

For more information on free tools and integrations for official university purposes, please e-mail us at: universityrelations@campusbuddy.com

College & Professor Grade Distributions: Official Information Only

A post by CampusBuddy Founder Mike Moradian. To see official grade distributions from over 250 universities, probably including yours, visit our academic edge section here.

Q: What does it mean that CampusBuddy displays "Official Grade Distributions?"

A: It means exactly that. CampusBuddy attains all of its grade information directly from the respective university registrars. The same grades that are kept under lock and key at a university, are available for all to see (stripped of student's names of course) here on CampusBuddy.com. The CampusBuddy team has spent years tirelessly pursuing this data in an effort to make the grading process more transparent and open for everyone.

Q: Why care to know this information?

You've spent years of your life working towards the college of your choice. You've paid thousands in tuition for your education, and carefully researched what major you want to pursue. You will invest literally hundreds of hours over the coming term to work for the best grade you can-- the grade that will reflect your knowledge to future grad schools and employers alike. When your grade is often the only tangible indication of your knowledge, why would you not invest to find out how out how hard a particular class or professor is before you take it?

The concept of not being educated about your education seems boggling at times. You are a hardworking student, who is about to work your tail off for 3-6 months straight, shouldn't you have an idea of how hard the class or professor you are taking is? Not knowing how hard a class is is like taking a full-time job, but having no idea about the salary until the project is done. Virtually no one says it is trivial to know what you should expect in that case.


Work in progress. more coming soon...


To get access to over 100 million official grade histories instantly, visit our Academic Edge section now



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Goodbye to Facebook Verified Apps! (We'll miss you)

Today is the last day Facebook Apps will be verified. CampusBuddy was honored to both have been a part of the verification process and to have been one of only 120 founding Facebook verified apps. The initiative that Facebook took with this process was incredibly useful in helping to identify and promote dedicated long-term application developers, and we would have liked to have seen this program flourish further instead of being retired.

The CampusBuddy Facebook Application, with over 150,000 Monthly Active Users (pictured above) has been showing very steady growth since the introduction of the Facebook Verified Program and will likely miss the Verified App perks while trying to attract new users.

We, at CampusBuddy, are looking forward to releasing some nice new Facebook features. In the holiday spirit, our wish this year is that Facebook stabilize the platform more in order allow developers more time to focus on building quality product and less on updating apps to Facebook platform changes and policy updates.

CampusBuddy Forums launch today

Today, CampusBuddy is formally launching our new "Forums" section, where students can actively discuss college life, admissions, grad schools, careers and much more. We feel that an open dialogue on these subjects will help students explore their interests and academic goals.

The forum section features individual sections for thousands of US colleges, as well as more broad national-level forums, for subjects such as Computers, Fitness, Style, Health and Relationships. We hope that this will help connect students with specialty or niche interests to other like-minded students in a more simply way.

To see the new Campus Buddy Forums go to:
http://www.campusbuddy.com/forum/

Thanks,
Mike

CampusBuddy 2.0, Fall 2009!

We’re excited to announce a lot of great news and features on CampusBuddy, just in time for the back-to-school Fall 09!

More Social Features

· CampusBuddy has a populated course-list of classes offered at more than 400 universities, making it simple for students to simply click, choose and connect with classmates.

· Campus and Class pages have real-time comment walls, posting student comments straight to Facebook and notifying other in the class.

· Students can publish their courses and weekly schedule straight to their Facebook newsfeed, or post them to their profile with our Facebook tabs and profile boxes.

Student Tools

· Textbook Price Comparison search engine, helping students find the best prices for textbooks on the web, from a selection of 20+ leading stores.

· Academic Edge option for students providing premium access to analysis of official grade distributions for classes. Users will be able to see how professors grade, dissected many ways so that students can have an understanding of how difficult certain classes may be and to see where they stand compared to others on campus.

Accolades

· Chosen as the #4 Best way for students to pick a college by Mashable

· Facebook Verified Application

We have some more exciting announcements coming soon. Be sure to subscribe to our blog to be the first to know!

Thanks,

The CampusBuddy Team

Campus Buddy

About CampusBuddy

Welcome to CampusBuddy.
CampusBuddy's mission is simple:

"To make it easier, much easier, for students to network and share with classmates."

The same principle applies to making it much easier for universities and professors to network and share with students as well.

Since launching on Facebook last October we have received quite a bit of praise from being ranked as the #4 best way to pick a college using Social Media by Mashable, to being selected as 1 of only 120 verified applications on Facebook.

CampusBuddy is a community, so please take a moment to connect with us too!
Subscribe to our blog!
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Thank you very much!
-Mike

P.S. CampusBuddy is one word. You wouldn't say Face Book, My Space or Black Berry, and the same goes with Campus Buddy. ;)