"Glancing" Into College

When I’m not working for Glance, I sometimes volunteer to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds get into college.  One evening this past winter, right before the college application deadline, I was talking to Camilla, a young 20 year old woman who was having difficulty getting access to the online application for the college she desperately wanted to attend.  She could see the application on her computer, but she couldn’t input any information online.  She lived 40 minutes away from me, and had only a limited amount of time.

I started up a Glance session with her and gave her remote control of my computer. That took less than 2 minutes. We talked through each part of the application; she filled in all of her relevant background info (which she might have otherwise forgotten to include), and she hit 'submit'.

Last week I got a phone call from an ecstatic Camilla.  “I got in, I got in.  I am so happy.  Thanks for your help.”

Applying to college can be stressful.  For Camilla, Glance made the college application process extremely easy.

 - Robin Baker (Office Manager, Glance Networks)