Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to a web-based platform for college admission officers and prospect student/applicants to connect with each other. This disclosure further relates to providing a user interface for a plurality of candidates to each populate a user profile with data items, assigning a score and a category label for each data item in each user profile, wherein a cumulative score is populated for each user profile by summing individual scores and wherein at least one top-level category is optionally assigned for each user profile, receiving a search query, through the user interface, including at least one of a desired cumulative score range, a desired score range for one or more category labels, and one or more top-level categories, and outputting a subset of the plurality of user profiles, through the user interface, wherein the subset of the plurality of user profiles match the search query.

Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to a web-based platform for college admission officers and prospect student/applicants to connect with each other. This disclosure further relates to providing a user interface for a plurality of candidates to each populate a user profile with data items, assigning a score and a category label for each data item in each user profile, wherein a cumulative score is populated for each user profile by summing individual scores and wherein at least one top-level category is optionally assigned for each user profile, receiving a search query, through the user interface, including at least one of a desired cumulative score range, a desired score range for one or more category labels, and one or more top-level categories, and outputting a subset of the plurality of user profiles, through the user interface, wherein the subset of the plurality of user profiles match the search query.