Survey about College Search & Applications

Roger_Dooley · 06-04-2009, 09:33 AM

At CC, we get tons of requests to survey our members from research groups, grad students, authors, reporters, etc. and our usual answer is "no, thanks." We don't want to inundate our members with such requests. So this is a rare exception - we have vetted this survey and are confident that it is legitimate. Here's the info:

Quote:

Eduventures, Inc., an education research company based in Boston, is seeking to better understand the needs of students applying to colleges and universities. Universities will use the information you provide in order to improve the information they supply to students during the college search. The survey at the URL below is designed explore this topic and should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

College Search Survey

All respondents who complete the survey by 5 p.m. (EST) on Friday, June 19th, may elect to be entered into a drawing for one of five $100 American Express gift cards. You will be asked to provide your e-mail address AT THE END OF THE SURVEY if you wish to be entered in the drawing. The winners of the prizes will be contacted by email at the completion of the survey project.

Please be assured that your identity and any information that you provide will be kept confidential. Survey results will only be shared in the aggregate, and your information will never be bought, sold, rented, or used to sell you products or services. The survey results will be reported in aggregate form to help universities ensure they maintain a high quality of student services.

Thank you for your thoughtful responses, and for taking the time to complete this survey.

If you take the survey, please don't post about the questions, etc., in order to not bias subsequent participants.

Jennalee · 06-04-2009, 11:46 AM

Appears to be a for profit privately held company, not sure who you perceive as benefitting. I assume the data will be sold.

silverturtle · 06-04-2009, 12:03 PM

I took it. Hopefully no one else does so I can get my money!

Deja · 06-04-2009, 01:03 PM

Does CC make money from this venture? If so, perhaps they should disclose this information.

I wouldn't spend 30 minutes on this. I wonder how many people will?

rsxwheeeeee · 06-04-2009, 01:16 PM

I stopped when it got to bubbles.

kryptonsa36 · 06-04-2009, 01:23 PM

I stopped when it got to bubbles without an "indifferent" option.

M's Mom · 06-04-2009, 08:10 PM

S got through the bubbles and gave upnot idea how much longer the survey was.

Issues:
-too long to expect someone to do for free
-some questions don't work for someone who applied ED and got in

psych_ · 06-04-2009, 08:32 PM

Wow, for-profit companies have more legitimancy than grant-funded researchers...? Okay...

Pyar · 06-04-2009, 09:36 PM

I filled out the entire thing. After having done projects in school in which I had to make and send out surveys, I know how much work goes into these things and how important they are and I suggest that everyone fill them out. Every single person who fill it out is important because the larger the sample size the more valid the results will be.

buffalowizard · 06-04-2009, 10:32 PM

Vetted, indeed.
There's a major typo on one of the pages:

Quote:

Phase 1--Developing initial interest in college
Phase 2--Deciding where to apply
Phase 3--Choosing where to apply

Phase 3 is *supposed* to say "Choosing where to attend" (it is defined as such at the top of the page... where most people will probably not look). I don't how they can expect to get reliable data with this typo.

everytime · 06-05-2009, 12:18 AM

I ditto what psych_ said.

I will add my own two cents: You have got to be kidding us......

I am guessing they agreed to pay you for every person you got to do it? Or pay you a certain fee for posting it? *GAGS*

galoisien · 06-05-2009, 02:49 AM

Quote:

Every single person who fill it out is important because the larger the sample size the more valid the results will be.

Not really, especially if the mode of surveying is filtering out the majority of CC.

I'm predicting the data will be skewed.

Sligh_Anarchist · 06-05-2009, 08:02 AM

If this is a for-profit firm, I'm sure CC new parent company (Hobson's) is being reimbursed. Although it's not as if CC is making you take it. I took it, but I just like to take surveys, hahaha.

phanatic · 06-05-2009, 09:05 AM

I'll admit, when I started getting to massive rows of bubbles, I just hit "3" for all of them.

Also, that typo mentioned above does skew the data quite a bit.

jwlstn · 06-05-2009, 11:33 AM

I'm not going to take a survey so CC can make a few bucks. no thanks.