This document proposes an anonymous social networking app called "College Chat" that allows high school students to ask questions directly to anonymous college students about their experiences attending different colleges. The app aims to provide transparency into the "real" campus life that high schoolers cannot access otherwise. It will give applicants a way to ensure the colleges they apply to meet their expectations. The document outlines the problem, question, insights, elevator pitch, survey results, key features of anonymous chat boards and college pages, access controls, a help feature, and considerations for feasibility and sustainability.

1. College Chat
By
Yo Nishimura
Kenta Suzuki

2. Who: Current Juniors and Seniors in High School.
What: SNS to ask anonymous college students
questions about the college he/she attends to.
When: Preparing for college.
Where: Wherever connected to internet.
Why: To make the murkiness of closed community of
college students and college campus life transparent
for high school students applying for college.
Overview

3. Problem
High school students does not
know the “real” inside of closed
community of colleges. Hence
there are many times that there is
a gap between their expectation
and reality after being admitted
into college.

4. Question
How can high school students
make sure that they are going
to the college that meets their
expectations?

5. Key insight statements
“This app will help me answer real questions I
had for the college I wanted to apply for! Now
I really want to get into my dream school!”
“Through this app, I may find out that the
college that seemed interesting to me might
not have the atmosphere I am looking for. I
like the idea of directly asking college
students. ”

6. Mini Elevator Pitch
Yo Nishimura and Kenta Suzuki are developing
an anonymous SNS app to help college
applicants in high school see the real insides of a
closed community of college with information
from the college students who attend there.

7. Pre - Market survey statistics:
48
2
Does this app seems helpful to you? Out of 50 people
Yes No

8. Chat with College Students
College students
are anonymous to
draw out "real"
information

9. Multi-purpose Pages
The connection is
not only limited
between high
school students
and college
students: college
students can also
create pages to
comment on
each other to
solve problems.

10. Control Viewers Access
In order to add college
pages to the list of
colleges, students must
receive an ID from
college to add pages to
list of colleges
(controlling the access
of the viewers.)

11. Help Feature
In cases of debugging and any
problems occurred within the
app, users are able report
problems to the creators and
colleges. Colleges and creators
are responsible for maintaining
the quality of the app as well as
the integrity of the contents.

12. Feasibility/sustainability
Need to make sure that all parties involved are motivated to post “real” data for a
sustained success.
• College applicants: Want more “insider information
• College students: Want to make their college a better place and want to
influence College decisions on courses and teachers, facility
• College Stakeholders: Want to promote their college but with accurate
information
• College admission officers: want to ensure the students they choose stay in
college
Data, content, technical
• College applicants: restrict access by requiring recent GPA / SAT& ACT
scores to obtain access ID
• College students: Make sure the postings are “real” by enforcing “likes” “review
#s” by other participants
• College Stakeholders: Use this “customer feedback” data to run their colleges
• College admission officers: have the ability to delete posts when inappropriate

13. What’s Unique about this app?
Major Differences compared to:
• Face Book: post are anonymous yet
dependable
• Yelp: Limited User: only college students,
college applicants and alumni can access
the information pertaining to that college