May 25, 2007
Prospective Students Rely on Campus Visits and Web Sites to Learn About Colleges, Report Says
Teenagers increasingly start their college searches as high-school freshmen and sophomores, and although they are tech-savvy, they largely shun chat rooms, blogs, and online networking sites as they conduct that search, a study has found.
Fewer than 10 percent of high-school students used MySpace, Facebook, or YouTube — three of the most popular networking sites — to gather information about colleges, according to the report, "College Search and the Millennial
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