How to Use Multiversity
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A Closer Look At Cosmo Cards
If you've gotten this far, you know that cosmo cards are what we call search results on Multiversity. You can think of a cosmo card as a "post". But what you may not have known is that there are two types of cosmo cards!
Yep! You read that right! There are two separate types of cosmo cards: there are the "University Cosmo Cards" and the "Scholarship Cosmo Cards".
University Cosmo Cards come from the "Add your University" portal,
and Scholarship Cosmo Cards come from the "Add Your Scholarship" portal. There are some differences between the two types of cards. Aside from having different colours, one instance is that University Cosmo Cards can only be posted by bearers of emails associated with the university they claim to be posting about,
while Scholarship Cosmo Cards can come from anybody. University Cosmo Cards can only be posted once per university per email per education level whilst Scholarship Cosmo Cards can be posted once per user per scholarship.
The subheading of a Scholarship Cosmo Card will typically be a scholarship percentage or a grant amount, while a University Cosmo Card will have an expected tuition fee as the subheading.
Despite the different attributes of the two types of cards, we try to provide you with a search experience that is so streamlined that you don't have to worry about any of this.
All cosmo cards are 'clickable', meaning that you can click on any one of them and get additional information about your search result. We try to give you a set of unique cosmo cards each time, so if your search
matches duplicates of the same university and you haven't specified a sorting criteria, we'll pick any one of them.
All cosmo cards generated by signed-in voyagers will contain severable clickable links to the voyager's profile. The links will always be underlined and preceded with an '@' symbol. Although you may still like and interact with posts made by anonymous voyagers, one sad thing about
the anonymous is that you cannot view their profile and they cannot
reclaim their cosmo cards!
But speaking of cosmo cards, one thing all cosmo cards have in common is that they contain a university name as a title - and remember how I said that they're clickable? Yep! If you click on
any cosmo card, you'll get some additional information (depending on your screen size, you may need to scroll). For University Cosmo Cards, it will look something like this:
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How to Read a Cosmo Card
Let's imagine that the University Cosmo Card above is about to be posted by a voyager called "Jurgen".
What's on top of the card?
The top of a cosmo card contains the verification status, the voyagername, the language, the country and the close button. You can skip reading this section if you already understand these.
The top LEFT of the card contains an icon that will tell you whether Jurgen is verified or unverified. If Jurgen is unverified the icon will be a yellow triangle, if Jurgen is verified the icon will be a green tick. Multiversity verifies anyone who wants to
post a university, so all University Cosmo Cards will be verified always. However, Scholarship Cosmo Cards can come from both verified and unverified voyagers - so you'll sometimes see a yellow triangle where there should be a tick.
A yellow triangle doesn't mean that a voyager
is lying or dangerous, it only means that Multiversity hasn't made any attempts to check that the voyager is associated with any educational institution.
The top RIGHT of Jurgen's card will have an 'X' button that you can use to close the cosmo card.
In BETWEEN the verification icon and the 'close' button will be Jurgen's voyagername on Multiversity.
It's worth noting that if Jurgen chooses to post his cosmo card without
signing in first, his cosmo card will be marked as "Anonymous". However, for this example, let's assume that Jurgen has signed in.
Because Jurgen has signed in, the voyagername on his cosmo card will be clickable, and you'll be able to fly to Jurgen's profile by tapping (or clicking) his name.
UNDERNEATH the verification icon will be the language that Jurgen is learning in. The language is meant to help you know if a cosmo card is created for somebody who speaks a language that you are familiar with (as some scholarships or universities may require you to learn in a language that is different to the one you know).
Underneath the 'close' button will be the country that Jurgen is studying in. If this was a Scholarship Cosmo Card, the 'country' would show the main country that you can study in if you attain that scholarship. In all cases, the country helps you know if a certain university is
in a country that is desirable for you.
What's in the middle of the card?
The middle of a cosmo card contains the headline (which is always the most noticeable part of the cosmo card), the body, and the ratings. You can skip this section if you already understand all these.
This is a University Cosmo Card. If Jurgen was posting a Scholarship Cosmo Card instead, the cosmo card's headline would not be "EXPECTED TUITION FEE (PER YEAR)". It would be "SCHOLARSHIP" OR "GRANT", and beneath "SCHOLARSHIP" (or "GRANT"), a scholarship percentage, or a grant amount (in $).
In Jurgen's case, BELOW THE HEADLINE "expected tuition fee" will be the tuition fee that you can expect if you attend Jurgen's university and study Jurgen's course, according to Jurgen. It's important to note that Jurgen may not be fully reliable, even if Multiversity can confirm that he is from the university he claims to be at.
His cosmo card will inform you about the existence of his university and give you a basic idea of what to expect according to him, but it's always recommended that you cross-check Jurgen's card against what his university actually says, and flag the card if it is inaccurate.
BELOW Jurgen's EXPECTED TUITION FEE will be some bullet points that tell you some facts about Jurgen's university, according to Jurgen, with an emphasis on finances. These will include the name of the university (which, in many cases, will be clickable: you can click on the name of the university to go directly to the university's website),
as well as several other details that may be relevant - such as whether Jurgen's university offers scholarships and an approximation of how much Jurgen spends on accommodation.
It's important to remember that the Cosmo Card does not cover all aspects of life at the referenced university. As always, the most complete and up-to-date source of information will be the university website itself.
Below the body of the cosmo card will be two ratings: a quality rating and a price rating.
The quality rating is Jurgen's answer to:
"How would you rate the overall quality of teaching at your university (Out of 5)?".
And the price rating is Jurgen's answer to:
"What is your assessment of your university's pricing? (Out of 5)" - where 5 was labelled as 'Fair' and 1 was labelled as 'Overpriced'.
The quality rating tells us what Jurgen would rate his university as a whole, while the price rating tells us if Jurgen thinks his university's quality justifies its cost.
What's at the bottom of the card?
The bottom of a cosmo card contains
(1) Jurgen's course
(2) Jurgen's education level
(3) A shareable link to the cosmo card
(4) The last day that Jurgen updated the cosmo card
(5) The number of views on Jurgen's cosmo card
(6) The number of A+s on Jurgen's cosmo card
(7) The number of flags on Jurgen's cosmo card. You can skip this section if you already understand all these.
At the bottom of a University Cosmo Card will be the course that Jurgen claims to be studying as well as his education level, a clickable link to share Jurgen's cosmo card, a non-clickable eye-icon that will have the number of views Jurgen got on his post directly beneath it, the last day Jurgen updated the cosmo card, a clickable "like" button branded as an A+, and a clickable flag button.
On Multiversity, an A+ equals a like, and a flag equals a dislike. All cosmo cards are like-able and flag-able (see the icons in the bottom-right of the cosmo card above).
We urge you to help helpful submissions reappear in other people's searches by giving A+s generously - and to exile unhelpful submissions by pressing the flag.
And that's all, voyager. You got to the end of 'A Closer Look at Cosmo Cards' and to the end of this article. Keep reading for details on how to post to Multiversity.
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How to Post on Multiversity
Posting to Multiversity is an essential part of being a part of the community. Giving the power to everyone is what makes Multiversity different from other university-finder websites: anyone can post to Multiversity!
However, it's important that you understand the how-to and responsibilities of this role before going ahead with a post. Here are our 3 Golden Rules.
Rule 1: Use Autosuggest
When creating a post on Multiversity, there are times when you will be asked to type. Wherever you're asked to type, Multiversity will try to find relevant suggestions and bring them up in your suggestions bar (if you're on mobile),
or on your screen (if you're using a PC).
Multiversity already knows thousands of universities, hundreds of the most widely spoken languages and hundreds of the most widely selected majors/courses, so using the suggestions where they
closely match what you're looking for will make your post more discoverable.
If you can't see anything close to what you're looking for, feel free to ignore the suggestions, but where you can, you should use the suggestions.
Rule 2: Approximate
When creating a post on Multiversity, there are times when you will feel like you don't know the exact details of the answer to a certain question. Have no fear! Multiversity operates on a system of approximations, rather than a system of exactness. The scholarship percentages, grant amounts,
opening and closing dates (for scholarship applications) and fees (the fees refers to the fees on University Cosmo Cards) are all meant to be approximations (that get as close to reality as possible). It's okay not to be perfectly exact. At Multiversity, we believe that it is better
for an opportunity to exist and only be marginally inaccurate than for it not to exist at all. If a scholarship opportunity does not specify an opening date but states that recipients of the scholarship must hold an offer from a certain university (or are automatically considered for the scholarship upon applying to the aforementioned university),
it is safe to use the opening month of the university's applications as an approximation for the opening month of the scholarship. If a scholarship is only available to a selection of courses, but that selection of courses is larger than 10, it is safe to mark it as not being limited to applicants wishing to study a specific course.
Remember, Multiversity is only meant to be a first step to finding a university. Therefore, it is far greater for an opportunity to be discoverable and be only slightly inaccurate than it is for the opportunity to not exist at all. Post away! If you make a mistake, you can always edit your post.
Rule 3: Don't lie
Although we encourage approximation, we do not encourage lying. If you don't have any idea of what the answer to a question is, try to read up on it and add it to Multiversity afterwards. We don't expect everyone to know everything about opportunities that seem to change constantly anyway,
but it would really harm the rest of the community if we were to encourage people to post things that give others false hope in an opportunity.
If in total doubt, don't lie.
How to post on Multiversity
Posting on Multiversity is as easy as filling out the form at Add your University (for University Cosmo Cards) or Add your Scholarship (for Scholarship Cosmo Cards). You answer the questions, and Multiversity generates a beautiful cosmo card for you. If you have an account, you can even keep track of all your cosmo cards in one place and delete any cosmo card whenever you want to!
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How to be a part of the community
If you see a cosmo card that's inaccurate, flag it. If you
notice a signed-in "voyager" abusing cosmo cards by propagating information that is fake, spammy or unrelated to the pursuit of
universities and scholarships, please navigate to their profile and report them to us. We will sort them out.
Likewise, if you see something that helped you, give it an A+! We would love for appreciation to be extended to the cold corners of the world where the voyagers who help make this a place where people rediscover hope reside.
There are benefits to following a user (like being able to view all of their cosmo cards with no search limits) - so don't be a stranger--follow people! And whenever you find a scholarship - or better, if you find your university, head back over here and tell us about it.
There's more than enough cosmo cards to go around.
And at the end of it all, Multiversity belongs to all of us. We are all connected, and it's the stories from each voyager's universe that make Multiversity the place to find your university.
So what are you waiting for, voyager? Sign in! Learn about us! Support us!