April 30, 2004 -– In the spring of 2004, four students realized that the students of the ten most elite schools nationwide had no central forum for discussion, and those students with the gifts and talents to get these schools didn’t have an easy way to learn about them.
In response, they dreamed up CodeIvy.com LLC, a free web-service that will fill both goals.
CodeIvy.com features news from all the schools, web blogs from students at each school describing their daily life, profiles about the schools, and discussion boards where students can ask questions to one another; all the services are completely free to users. The group hopes that their service will demystify the college experience, and create a network so that students in the ten best schools become one family under one roof.
Conceptualized by Kabir Sehgal, a Dartmouth student, and Dr. Jeff Rosensweig, a Yale graduate and Associate Dean of the Goizueta School of Business, CodeIvy is a digital exchange on select colleges. CodeIvy was built by technophiles Ling Yan from Dartmouth and Xiang Yan from Stanford. The three are joined by Brent Reidy from Dartmouth College, who serves as CEO and directs content and much of the website itself.