It's extremely hard to get good, unbiased information on colleges. Almost every news source is either based on metrics that students don't care about (number of papers published by the department, NSF grants, etc), or basically advertising done by the school itself. If there was a way to get information about schools, stuff like "oh XYZ college has really great campus life" or "ABC college has an amazing hackathon community" or even "oh this school's food sucks", then I think it would be immensely popular. The only (but main) problem is convincing college students to contribute.
A problem with this is that it’s harder to do useful comparisons when most people have experience of only one of the things being compared. Eg if students say they are happy, does that mean the College is good or that they just bring in students who were happier than average in the first place.
