Student profile and digital portfolio benefits

Promoting students for higher education

●	Academics
●	Athletics
●	Music and Fine Arts
●	Vocational/Technical

Is PressParade for You?

Whether you're a scholastic achiever, student athlete, musician, or artist, PressParade enables you to easily create a personal web site and CD-ROM to proactively promote your talent and accomplishments.

In pursuing your college or other postsecondary educational opportunities, a PressParade student profile makes you stand out from the crowd. It gives you a competitive edge that improves your chances to gain admission to the school of your choice and/or obtain a valuable scholarship.

The process of creating a PressParade student profile helps provide you with an honest appraisal of your accomplishments. When used early in high school, PressParade also provides you with a means to identify and set goals necessary to achieve the admission requirements of your targeted schools.

Why PressParade?

A rich content student profile and portfolio.

Understand PressParade's advantages over other student profiling/showcasing products:

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Sample Student Scenerios

To illustrate how various types of students can use PressParade, here are some examples:

Scholastic Achiever

How do you differentiate yourself from other similarly qualified students with above average academics? Answer: Use PressParade to create a student profile that includes a portfolio of your best academic work along with other items that bring your qualifications to life.

Include a video of your science project along with electronic versions of essays, labs, and other meaningful academic work. Easily add comments and "reflections" to communicate the significance of these items. In your personal bio, add links for letters of recommendation, your transcript, and a summary of your academic and life goals. Include a few pictures of family and friends and a short video introduction that highlight your personality!

Checkout our scholastic achiever sample profile to see an in-depth example of the content included in this type of PressParade student profile.

A student profile helps demonstrate your desire and commitment to achieve success at the college level.

Student Athlete

The majority of student athletes receiving college scholarships are NOT elite athletes. Colleges may find you, they may not. For these students, PressParade provides an excellent means to attract the attention of college coaches and recruiters.

This class of student athlete usually begins performing at a high level during their Sophomore year. Putting together a PressParade student profile at this time, and beginning to contact college coaches, provides a headstart in establishing a relationship with potential colleges. Marketing efforts should begin no later than Junior year. Promotion of these student athletes may well continue into the student athlete's Senior year and sport season.

Some student athletes develop later in their high school career - possibly as late as their Senior year. In these instances, a promotional blitz is essential. Create your PressParade student profile and put together an email campaign to distribute your profile.

To learn more about how PressParade can benefit a student athlete, click on the link:

A note to Student Athletes

Elite Student Athlete

Exceptionally talented student athletes, who plan to play Division 1 sports, typically receive widespread exposure via camps, showcase events, and online services dedicated to elite athletes. For these student athletes, PressParade is an excellent promotional tool during the earliest stages of their high school career. Consider using PressParade in 9th grade to begin marketing your talents and accomplishments.

Musician or Thespian

Much like a student athlete, performance defines your non-academic talent. Using PressParade's Gallery, you can include sample video or audio clips that enable interested parties to experience your musical or acting ability.

Artist

An artist's talent is usually presented via a portfolio of their artwork. PressParade's Gallery enables you to exhibit your work, via your online student profile or CD, to the individuals who will judge your qualifications.

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Why ALL high school students should consider using PressParade.

Although the examples on this page describe students with a specific "talent", building a PressParade student profile is an exercise that helps ANY student and their parents better understand the process of preparing for college or other postsecondary opportunities.

PressParade's Planning Mode also provides each student with an opportunity to explicitly plan and set performance objectives. Within the Profile's Bio, Goals are initially added and easily transformed into accomplishments as each objective is met. You can quickly preview a Bio that includes both goals and accomplishments or one that contains only the achieved accomplishments.

Used in this manner, PressParade is a tool that creates a path to achieving performance standards, as opposed to reporting performance only after it has occurred.

As you progress through high school and build your student profile, PressParade provides a central point to collect, organize, and share your information.

A note on PressParade CD-ROMs: The most effective promotional campaign is generally one that uses both a PressParade web site and a companion PressParade CD.

The CD makes for an excellent handout for camps and showcases. You can also include it with your paper-based college application. Additionally, a PressParade CD provides a permanent record of your accomplishments and is a great keepsake.

If you do not want to maintain an online PressParade student profile for an extended time, a PressParade CD provides the following alternative approach to promoting yourself:

Sign up for a PressParade account and create your student profile
Order CD-ROMs
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Although you cannot edit your student profile in the future, the PressParade CD may be sufficient for your initial application needs. For less than $100, you will create a professional profile/portfolio that you can distribute to coaches, recruiters, and admissions personnel.

Take control of your college and scholarship opportunities with PressParade

Organizations

Schools

PressParade provides an interactive online experience that jumpstarts the process of preparing for college and other postsecondary opportunities.

In addition to its use in showcasing your students, you can integrate PressParade into your college preparation process to help students to better understand required standards and set achievement goals.

PressParade can provide your students with a competitive edge that differentiates them from similarly qualified students.

College Preparation and Recruiting Companies

How does your company present your students to potential colleges? PressParade enables you to create professional, attractive student profiles that you can easily provide to interested parties.

For student athletes, PressParade's video capability (including frame by frame control) provides college coaches with an opportunity to quickly analyze and breakdown technique and overall skill. You can also include news articles to provide a third party reference highlighting the student athlete's achievements.

If your company concentrates on scholastic achievers, consider how a PressParade student profile can complement academic qualifications and test scores. PressParade provides "rich" content that brings a student's qualifications to life. Unlike a flat piece of paper, this information can provide a college admissions officer with better insight into the finer details of a student's qualifications. This leads to a more informed and accurate judgment on a student's potential to succeed at the college level.

Educators:

Give your students a competive edge.

Learn how PressParade can benefit your students and school:

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