Why not a forum for each state?

[CC_Mike]

@Sweetgum

There aren’t really forums for each college, though. I know plenty of colleges in North Carolina, my home state, that aren’t listed in the alphabetical listing or the tags. CC is not very inclusive (very biased toward Top20) and separating it out by state would actually level the playing field a bit more.

We’ve actually been working towards making conversation about every school accessible. We should have a tag available for every school in the U.S. (we have 3700 so far). Not every conversation is tagged correctly. For example, let’s say you wanted to discuss Ashland University in OH. We want to make it easier to:

• Find information about the school (via the CC college page)
• Find discussions about Ashland U (via the ashland-university tag)
• Find info about other colleges in OH (via the CC college search page)
• Save Ashland to your list of colleges (via the CC list feature - heart a college to save)

@RichInPitt

Not long ago, there was an entire section with dozens of schools that averaged about a post per year. It was rationalized to the schools that showed interest, just as most online social media sites focus on those that engage the audience. So CC will adjust with the audience demand.

This is true - most conversation outside Top20 schools tends to be topical - in Chance me, College Admissions, Search & Selection, etc. Having both colleges and states as tags will allow any conversation about those less popular schools and states to exist where it makes sense topically but easy to find via tags.

Now the trick is to organize the existing content and to encourage folks to start using tags…