GAcollege411 update [Aug. 2007]

My 411 Accounts Site Visits

August 2007

My 411 Accts 351,510

40,000

Site Visits 3,074,468

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

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350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 0

Applications Submitted through GAcollege411
10,000

9,000

8,000

USG College &

7,000

Universities - 19,690

6,000

Dept. of Technical &

5,000

Adult Education

Colleges - 6,199

4,000

Independent

3,000

Colleges & Univ -

826 2,000

1,000

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GAcollege411 Help Desk Assistance
Total E-mail inquiries - 5,910

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GAcollege411 Highlights

August 2007

Our Working Group meeting was held on September 5th. We would like to welcome all of our new members, including Susann Livingston our High School Counselor Representative, and Glenda Hobbs our new Financial Aid Representative.
Our Homepage survey should be sent to High School Counselors, Graduation Coaches, Financial Aid and Admissions Administrators this month. Please participate so that we can all be sure the Homepage meets the need of our client populations.
Electronic transcript exchange testing will begin this fall. Thank you to our High Schools who have volunteered to participate in our Beta testing.

Enhancements to the GAcollege411 website

One of our major projects for FY08 is redesigning our Homepage. We will send a survey to admissions

and financial aid offices in the Fall for redesign suggestions;

Have you updated your Control Center information? If

not, please have your institutional contact to begin! It

should not take too much time. If you need assistance

"Ask an Expert" emails of the month:

or if you do not know who your Control Center contact is

please contact Janine Robinson Combre

"What HBCU colleges in Georgia offer

(janiner@gsfc.org) or Charles Smith of Xap (charles@xap.com).

training in catering business management?"
colleges@gacollege411.org

GAcollege411 Contact information:

"Hello, I am interested in getting a degree in the psychology field. I am 37 years old. I have a few college credit hours. I live in Dallas, GA. Can you assist??" careerinfo@gacollege411

Janine Robinson Combre, Associate Vice President: 770-724-9010 or janiner@gsfc.org
Deseree Edwards, Program Manager: 770-724-9048 or desereee@gsfc.org
Sarah Baumhoff, Vice President Client Services: 770-724-9021 or sarahb@gsfc.org
Demi Fogle, Transcript Liaison: 770-724-9336 or demif@gsfc.org
Lynne King, Training Manager: 770-724-9026 or lynnek@gsfc.org