Admission App Ideas

The first in our brainstorming session is the Admission app.  What should it do?  Recently, I sat down the the Admission team and we came up with the following ideas:

• App guided tour – (a much higher tech version of the self guided audio tour)
• Would feature Augmented Reality (this is quite expensive so we may have to use QR codes instead)
• Guest tour guides?
• Counselor Look Up based on location
• Look up the counselor for a given area based on where you are, sort of like this app.
• Official Check In for Tours (this would be a Hobsons thing since Admission uses Hobsons for events and interviews – this may not be possible)
• Live app counter (live admission statistics as they are deemed public by the Admission office)
• Deadline countdown
• Instead of just listing the dates, what if we say “39 days until your application is due”
• Status check
• Something that integrates with either WebAdvisor or Hobsons to tell students where they are in the process.  Are they missing documents?  Has their file been read?  What is their decision?