Updates

  • Happy Thanksgiving from Zinch. » So our team here at Zinch decided to put out a video for y'all. Props to Joe Pututau, one of our Flavor Maestros, for choreographing the Turkey Dance, Gobble Gobble Gobble. We've got some exciting news here at Zinch. I'm...
  • Scholarships, NACAC and rappers. » Last week we attended the big NACAC conference in Austin, Texas. NACAC stands for National Association of College Admissions Counseling. They have a huge national conference each year. This year it was in Austin, Texas. Thousands of people attended, as...
  • "The Word" and our new Facebook profile. » So we have a couple big announcements we'd like to make during these next couple weeks. I'm only gonna make a few right now. We have a lot of great things going on right now and we're EXCITED about this...
  • College Admissions from A to Zag » Gonzaga University is another school that has discovered Zinch.com this summer. Yesterday I chatted with Julie McCulloh, Dean of Admissions at Gonzaga. Julie shared some insights and examples from Gonzaga that will benefit any student gearing up for college...
  • A Day in the Zinch Life- Palo Alto, CA » Recently, we visited Stanford University. If you didn’t know, Stanford’s campus is huge. We grabbed a Jamba Juice and split a powerbagel for breakfast, then took a bad turn en route to the admissions office. I was driving and...
  • Stanford, Yale, and MIT just to name a few... » This summer the Zinch ninjas (the get-to-know-college people) have been anxiously engaged in contacting every single college that the students have shouted out to. We launched for colleges just over a month ago, and the response has been terrific. Why...
  • College Search is a Zinch. » So we've just released our awesome college search page. Right now it's more of a directory than an advanced search tool. We used to have the advanced "school zeeker" but it's undergoing an extreme makeover right now. It'll be revamped...
  • It's official: the gray-haired dudes can now use Zinch. » Haha. Nah....i'm kidding about calling admissions officers gray-haired dudes. :) We know that's not true.But yes. Admissions officers from all over America can now use Zinch. We have a team of ninjas (yes, we really call them ninjas) who...
  • A special milestone: 100,000 students! » We've reached 100,000 students on Zinch. Now that, my friends, is pretty awesome. Who would've thought that it would have come this far so quickly. It's starting to catch students like an epidemic, a virus. Our initial goals were to...
  • A super crazy month. » We've just about reached 30,000 users. That's after one month of being live. Wow. Things are crazier than ever. The core team spent the last two weeks on a "Road Tour" out East, visiting colleges, high schools, partnerships, and...
  • Progress. » Sorry we don't write in the blog more. It's the kiss of death to every blog: lack of entries. I know I know.....it stinks. But no worries. It's just that we've been EXTREMELY busy trying to match the growth that's...
  • So far so good... » So far, we've had nothing but great feedback! The first week of being online was definitely a success. We had people all over the world hearing about Zinch, sharing our story, and blogging about us....
  • Drum roll please.... » Well ladies and gents....we're live. After months and months of brainstorming, research, broken pencils, programming, headaches, late nights, sack lunches, and prayers.....we're finally live....