ApplyMap have seen over five thousand dollars raised within twelve hours of launch, causing them to stretch funding goals to enable even better provisions for non-profits.

Santa Monica, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/22/2014 -- ApplyMap, a new app designed to help high school students maximize their college chances, has announced that they are undertaking a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. The company is aiming to raise $15,000 or more in order to build a special version of the site for non-profit organizations.

The company's IndieGoGo campaign raised over five thousand dollars from donors within 12 hours of its launch. As a result of this unprecedented support, ApplyMap is now looking to set stretch funding goals that will allow them to help sponsor even more high school students.

ApplyMap was introduced through a fundraising campaign video featuring CEO Steve Palley, which takes students' grades and other key data to match them to a set of schools that are then broken down into dream, reach, match and safety, so students can apply to a range of schools that resolve both their current position and their ambitions.

By providing the solution free to underserved communities using non-profit educational outreach programs as the delivery system, the company is creating possibilities for people to take control of their academic future according to the variables that matter most to them, in a way that may well not be possible for them otherwise.

Steve Palley, CEO of ApplyMap, explained, "As a company and as citizens of this country, we're determined to do everything we can to fight educational inequality. That's why every donation to our campaign goes straight into providing high quality college advice to those who need it most. By being able to provide this resource for free to non-profits working in disadvantaged areas, we allow people the best chance of optimizing their approach to their future, generating success at the most fundamental level that will then allow students to define their own futures going forward."

ApplyMap's main nonprofit partner for the campaign is the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), which has been working with the Hispanic community in Los Angeles for 31 years.

"CARECEN believes that every child deserves access to higher education, yet college advising resources in LAUSD high schools continue to diminish," said CARECEN College Head Start Coordinator Victoria Dominguez. "ApplyMap's technological support will help us boost college readiness for hundreds of underserved students in the Pico Union, Westlake and Koreatown areas of Los Angeles."

About ApplyMap
ApplyMap is an online software that enables high school students to narrow down the colleges it is best for them to apply for using three independent data sets comprising almost 4 million datapoints, allowing for the most insightful and accurate college counseling service possible. For more information please visit: http://www.applymap.com

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ApplyMap provides virtual college counseling based on hard data, and has joined startup accelerator StartEngine to gain exposure and momentum as initial tests get students excited.

Santa Monica, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/16/2014 -- Finding the right college is something that can define a person's life, yet much of the time spent searching is wasted on sifting out irrelevant choices. ApplyMap is a new approach to college counseling that can give people a step by step guide as to how to apply to the best schools for their grades, preferences and ambitions in as little as five minutes. The app has proved so exciting that it has been accepted into StartEngine, L.A.'s largest startup accelerator.

In the homeland of blue chip entrepreneurialism, www.ApplyMap.com, founded by UCLA graduate students, launched in the summer of 2013 as a member of Startup UCLA's Summer Accelerator, and the development has proven exciting enough to join other top entrepreneurs at StartEngine. Steve Palley, CEO and Co-Founder of ApplyMap explained, "We're determined to simplify the college search process for all students who need college advice, and StartEngine is going to help us tremendously along that path. We have taken great strides to begin with, but that pace can now increase exponentially."

The company has already done a number of demonstrations of the new tech-supported approach at high schools and non-profit organizations throughout Los Angeles, and received rave reviews from students, counselors, educators, parents and entrepreneurs alike.

With a college matching service that realistically evaluates student performance and ambitions, and uses in-data on colleges and the composition of their individual programs, the software will be capable of providing true value to students, enabling them to channel their energies most productively.

Howard Marks, managing Partner of StartEngine was happy to comment on the acquisition, "We are very pleased that ApplyMap is joining us at StartEngine. This company's technology can help every college-bound student get into a better college in under five minutes, and we see that as a great market opportunity."

About ApplyMap
ApplyMap builds data-driven college applications road maps for high school students. Based on a student's grades, test scores, and school preferences, ApplyMap's algorithm delivers a strategically optimized portfolio of schools to apply to. ApplyMap solves the college search problem by providing reliable advice at the click of a button. For more information please visit: http://www.applymap.com

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