Jewel White, who recently completed two years at Thomas Nelson Community College, looked to ZeeMee—a collegiate application aid tool—to strengthen her resume.
She said that the extra link she gave to Virginia Tech provided personal information that admissions counselors couldn’t find in the average college application.
In her minute and a half “Meet Me” video, White recounted her background as a homeless student, and how she survived her first year in community college.
“Everyone’s story is different, like me for instance, even though I came out of my first two years of college as an honor roll student, in high school I graduated with a C average,” says White. “That gave me an opportunity to tell why that was going on in my background and where I was coming from.”
Now, White has become an ambassador of sorts for ZeeMee, advising high school and community college students to use the aid to share their personalities and interests with admission offers.
“If you have something that interests other people and you feel like that’s something you want colleges to know about, definitely do that because you could be missing out on opportunities if you don’t,” she says. “I think it made it more fun, even though it was that extra step. I hadn’t ever done a video for a college application before. I got to include a photo of myself and my family.”
Adam Metcalf, co-founder and chief product officer at ZeeMee, says that he created the college application supplement to help prospective students showcase their uniqueness through “Meet Me” videos.
