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Track your applications to universities - The best tool I found on Internet (Not sponsored | Genuinely useful)




When you start applying for higher education, you will be very confused at first as on where to start, what to do and how to proceed. If you are considering about Germany, then DAAD is the best site to start your quest for higher education. 
Related: Step by step tutorial on How to use DAAD website

You may need some more tools, in order to keep your applications on track, also to qualify and quantify them. Here is a tool, that I found out which seems to be very useful for every student who is applying for higher studies, irrespective of the country. 

uQualify

What is this tool about?
It is a spread-sheet tool, created to help the prospective students applying to higher education. This tool will help you to structure your applications by enabling you to easily shorlist universities based on various parameters. You can compare the courses across a wide range of criteria and we believe that, this will help you find the best course for your profile.

Who created it? 
IntrVu has created this FREE tool to help students with their applications. This tool is getting updated everytime, with some additional features which are aimed to serve the applicants the best. 

What is in it? 
This spreadsheet tool has various "sheets" on the bottom and check out the usage of these sheets. 

Grade conversion


Profile sheet: Enter details | Grade conversion

In this sheet, you can enter your GPA, GRE score, IELTS score, etc., which comprises of all your basic details required to fill out an application. There is also a Grade conversion tool, in which you can customize your marks/grades and get the grade in ECTS. 

Tracker:


Tracker sheet: Enter details about university | Admission requirements | Status of application
The Tracker sheet is where you enter all the details about the universities you want to apply and their admission requirements. You can enter the name of the course, university name, location, country, URL, admission requirements, application status, etc., It will help you to keep your applications on track and makes it easier for you to analyse. 

Criteria:


Criteria sheet: More than 50 criteria to consider | Rate the university | Importance of criteria  
The criteria sheet helps you rate the university based on more than 50 criterias. This sheet is very crucial in order to understand the university and will help you realise the potential of the university. 

Viz:


Viz sheet: Based on the criterias - plot graph | Compare univs |  Choose category
The Viz sheet will help you plot and compare the universities based on student life, academic life, location, career service, etc., 

Checklist:


Checklist sheet: Know what to buy | Where to buy | Status
The last sheet has the checklist of items you need to purchase for your journey to Germany. You can mark the status, quantity and where you can buy it. 


On the whole, this is one of the best available tools out there in the internet to help you track, analyse and select the universities. If I were you, I will be downloading this first and start using it.
Here is the link where you can download it: uQualify

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