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Wow!! I certainly did not expect this kind of feedback and praise for my work....thank you all!
I can not possibly respond to all my emails, private messages and posts to my original thread so I made this new one to give you guys a little better idea of where I am going with PreDents.com and try to answer some of the questions and requests you guys have.
First off I'd like to say thanks to all of you guys for your great suggestions and positive comments.
1) Spelling: As I mentioned earlier some where, I suck at spelling. Keep those corrections coming!!!!
2) Separating the application cycles. My original plan was to purge (erase) the entire data base every June 1st and start fresh every year. I was planning on putting the current cycle prominently on the website, like " Class beginning 2006" or something.
Some of you however have made some comments that the data of past applicants might be useful for trend comparisons. Although this would be nice it adds a bit if complications (nothing I can't overcome of course ). The thing is that I would need to retain all records indefinitely. Not a huge problem but if my adoring public wants it, I will make the necessary data structure changes to keep this option open for next year.
3) GPA: The field for GPA doesn't specify if its AADSAS, with or without quality, or directly from your transcripts. I will let the individual choose which ones he wants to display (usually the higher of the three )
4) Is that a picture of me in the top left? Only my fellow UCSF buddies will know that one!!!!
5) General improvements: Guys, you havent seen anything yet!!!!!!!!!! I did what I thought would be a bare minimum website just for a beta launch. I didn't want to put more work into it until I found out if the community would like it and use it. Well, from the over 30 emails I got in the last 24 hours, I'd say you like it!!
It's going to be off the hook but here are a few addition that will definitely be in:
1) Pop up stats: When you hover over a user name a small window will pop-up with the condensed stats (I.E. GPA/SCI and AA/TS/PAT). This way you can weed out the "studs" you want to go insane about!
2) Trend charts: I plan on making a horizontal bar chart displaying the number of interviews and acceptances over the cycle year. You can easily see when each schools gives out invitations for interviews and when the accept, all nice in a colored graph.
3) Much more data on each school. I don't want to step on the toes of ADEA and totally rip off their book, but the stats that people want will be entered into my database and will be completely searchable. Once my 44th edition gets here I will enter the data in.
4) Anything else you guys want. Ive been doing this sort of thing for a while and as of yet, there isn't anything I couldn't do so if you can think of a cool way to display data that a predent might want to know, give me a holla back!
The last thing I want to stress is that PreDents.com is in BETA. If you don't know what that means, then just think of it as broken, but I don't know how it's broken! I need you guys to tell me. If we can get this puppy working good enough for it to be useful for this cycles predents, great. But don't count on it. The next cycle predents will get the real pay off.
And very lastly, if you like my website and want to support it, put a link to the website in your signature somewhere!
Thanks guys!
I can not possibly respond to all my emails, private messages and posts to my original thread so I made this new one to give you guys a little better idea of where I am going with PreDents.com and try to answer some of the questions and requests you guys have.
First off I'd like to say thanks to all of you guys for your great suggestions and positive comments.
1) Spelling: As I mentioned earlier some where, I suck at spelling. Keep those corrections coming!!!!
2) Separating the application cycles. My original plan was to purge (erase) the entire data base every June 1st and start fresh every year. I was planning on putting the current cycle prominently on the website, like " Class beginning 2006" or something.
Some of you however have made some comments that the data of past applicants might be useful for trend comparisons. Although this would be nice it adds a bit if complications (nothing I can't overcome of course ). The thing is that I would need to retain all records indefinitely. Not a huge problem but if my adoring public wants it, I will make the necessary data structure changes to keep this option open for next year.
3) GPA: The field for GPA doesn't specify if its AADSAS, with or without quality, or directly from your transcripts. I will let the individual choose which ones he wants to display (usually the higher of the three )
4) Is that a picture of me in the top left? Only my fellow UCSF buddies will know that one!!!!
5) General improvements: Guys, you havent seen anything yet!!!!!!!!!! I did what I thought would be a bare minimum website just for a beta launch. I didn't want to put more work into it until I found out if the community would like it and use it. Well, from the over 30 emails I got in the last 24 hours, I'd say you like it!!
It's going to be off the hook but here are a few addition that will definitely be in:
1) Pop up stats: When you hover over a user name a small window will pop-up with the condensed stats (I.E. GPA/SCI and AA/TS/PAT). This way you can weed out the "studs" you want to go insane about!
2) Trend charts: I plan on making a horizontal bar chart displaying the number of interviews and acceptances over the cycle year. You can easily see when each schools gives out invitations for interviews and when the accept, all nice in a colored graph.
3) Much more data on each school. I don't want to step on the toes of ADEA and totally rip off their book, but the stats that people want will be entered into my database and will be completely searchable. Once my 44th edition gets here I will enter the data in.
4) Anything else you guys want. Ive been doing this sort of thing for a while and as of yet, there isn't anything I couldn't do so if you can think of a cool way to display data that a predent might want to know, give me a holla back!
The last thing I want to stress is that PreDents.com is in BETA. If you don't know what that means, then just think of it as broken, but I don't know how it's broken! I need you guys to tell me. If we can get this puppy working good enough for it to be useful for this cycles predents, great. But don't count on it. The next cycle predents will get the real pay off.
And very lastly, if you like my website and want to support it, put a link to the website in your signature somewhere!
Thanks guys!