Method and system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions

Abstract

A computer implemented method for administration of admission offers from educational institutions including receiving student information from students, generating a unique student identifier for each of the students, generating a universal student profile for each of the students on the database, the universal student profile including the unique student identifier, student identification information, and student qualification information for each of the students, identifying matching students from a plurality of universal student profiles stored on the database whose qualification information satisfies the entrance requirement information of any of the plurality of educational institution profiles stored on the database, generating on the database an anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students, and transmitting over the data network the anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students to educational institutions whose entrance requirements have been satisfied by the matching students.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer implemented method for administration of admission offers from educational institutions, the method comprising:
 providing a plurality of educational institution profiles stored on and individually retrievable from a database, each of the plurality of educational institution profiles including a unique educational institution identifier and entrance requirement information for an educational institution;   providing a plurality of certifier profiles stored on and individually retrievable from the database, each of the certifier profiles including a unique certifier identifier and certifier identification information;   receiving student information from students on student input devices over a data network, the student information including student identification information and student qualification information for a student;   generating a unique student identifier for each of the students;   generating a universal student profile for each of the students on the database, the universal student profile including the unique student identifier, the student identification information, and the student qualification information for each of the students;   identifying matching students from a plurality of universal student profiles stored on the database whose qualification information satisfies the entrance requirement information of any of the plurality of educational institution profiles stored on the database;   generating on the database an anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students; and   transmitting over the data network the anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students to educational institution input devices over the data network of educational institutions whose entrance requirements have been satisfied by the matching students.   
     
     
         2 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving from an institutional input device over the data network an admission offer request from a specific one of the educational institutions directed to a specific one of the matching students, the admission offer including the unique student identifier of the specific one of the matching students;   retrieving from the database the student identification information from the universal student profile corresponding to the unique student identifier of the specific one of the matching students included in the admissions offer request;   generating an admission offer directed to the specific one of the matching students using the student identification information; and   transmitting to a student input device over the data network the admission offer to the specific one of the matching students.   
     
     
         3 . The computer implemented method of  claim 2 , wherein the admission offer is comprised of a name of an educational institution, a timestamp, a start date, and a program of study. 
     
     
         4 . The computer implemented method of  claim 2 , further comprising:
 receiving from the specific one of the matching students on a student input device over the data network an authorization to transmit the universal student profile of the specific one of the matching students to a specific one of the education institutions; and   transmitting the universal student profile of the specific one of the matching students to an educational institution input device over the data network of the specific one of the educational institutions, the universal student profile including its student identity portion as stored on the database.   
     
     
         5 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein creating an anonymized version of a universal student profile comprises removing the student identification information from the universal student profiles. 
     
     
         6 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 assigning a certifier from the plurality of certifier profiles to each of a plurality of universal student profiles stored on the database;   receiving certification notice creation requests from certifier input devices over the data network from the certifiers, each of the certification notice creation requests including at least a timestamp, a unique certifier identifier, and a unique student identifier or identification information of a student whose universal student profile to which the certification notice creation request is directed;   generating on the database certification notice profiles in response to each of the certification notice creation requests; and   transmitting the certification notice profiles along with the anonymized version of the universal student profiles of each of the matching students to educational institution input devices over the data network of educational institutions whose entrance requirements have been satisfied by the matching students.   
     
     
         7 . The computer implemented method of  claim 6 , wherein each of the certification notice profiles includes a unique certification notice identifier, a timestamp included in a specific one of the certification notice creation requests, a complete copy of the certifier profile corresponding to the unique certifier identifier included in the specific one of the certification notice creation requests, and a copy of the anonymized universal student profile corresponding to the unique student identifier or identification information of a student included in the specific one of the certification notice creation requests. 
     
     
         8 . The computer implemented method of  claim 6 , wherein assigning a certifier from the plurality of certifier profiles further comprises:
 receiving certifier association requests from certifier input devices over the data network from certifiers or from student input devices over the data network from students, each of the certifier association requests including identification information of a certifier and identification information of a student whose universal student profile is to be verified by the certifier;   verifying the identity information of the certifier by retrieving from the database a certifier profile corresponding to the identification information of the certifier included in each of the certifier association requests;   verifying the identification information of the student by retrieving from the database a universal student profile corresponding to the identification information of the student included in each of the certifier association requests; and   updating the universal student profiles and the certifier profiles on the database of the students and the certifiers identified in each of the certifier association requests that have been verified to link them to one another within the database.   
     
     
         9 . A system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions, the systems comprising:
 a plurality of student input devices, the plurality of student input devices accessed by students seeking admission offers from educational institutions;   a plurality of educational institution input devices, the plurality of educational institution input devices accessed by educational institutions seeking to provide admission offers to the students;   a plurality of certifier input devices, the plurality of certifier input devices accessed by certifiers seeking to provide certification of the students;   an administrative server providing for administration of admission offers from the educational institutions;   a data network interconnecting the plurality of student input devices, the plurality of educational institution input devices, the plurality of certifier input devices, and the administrative server; and   a database in communication with the administrative server, the database comprised of a student schema for data on the students, an educational institution schema for data on the educational institutions, a certifier schema for data on the certifiers, and a certification notice schema for data on certification notices.   
     
     
         10 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 9 , wherein the student schema is comprised of a unique identifier portion, a student identity portion, and a student qualifications portion. 
     
     
         11 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 10 , wherein the student qualifications portion is comprised of qualification information on desired programs of study, desired start date, academics, English language proficiency, standardized test, budget, and source country or region. 
     
     
         12 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 9 , wherein the educational institution schema is comprised of a unique identifier portion and an educational institution information portion. 
     
     
         13 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 12 , wherein the educational institution information portion is comprised of an educational institution details section, an educational institution entrance requirements section, and a user details section. 
     
     
         14 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 13 , wherein the educational institution entrance requirements section is comprised of entrance requirement information on available programs of study, available start date, academics, English language proficiency, standardized tests, annual budget, and desired countries or regions. 
     
     
         15 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 9 , wherein the certifier schema is comprised of unique certifier identifier portion and a certifier details portion. 
     
     
         16 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 15 , wherein a certifier details portion includes certifier identification information, certifier type information, certifier employment information, and certifier authorization information. 
     
     
         17 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 9 , wherein the certification notice schema is comprised of a unique certifier notice identifier portion and a certification notice details portion. 
     
     
         18 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 17 , wherein the certification notice details portion includes a certification notice details section, a certifier details section, and a universal student profile section. 
     
     
         19 . The system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions of  claim 18 , wherein
 the certification notice details section includes a timestamp that reflects a date and time when a certification notice was generated;   the certifier details section includes a complete copy of a certifier record as stored on the database; and   the universal student profile section includes a copy of an anonymized version of a universal student profile as stored on the database.