Ivy Embassy: Building a Platform for International High School Students to Connect with College Undergraduates in the US

Abstract

This paper details the design and development of an online platform that allows international high school students gain more insight into American colleges by having one on one conversations with American undergraduate students. This platform was built using the Django framework, utilizing the Stripe API for online payments, and hosted on a Heroku server. This project aims to aid international high school students aspiring to study in US colleges by making the college application process less confusing and by providing firsthand insight into such schools.