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Change analytic to use current address rather than "home town" field

Phuong Nguyen

November 08, 2013 21:51

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Hi team,

I've noticed that in the reporting of where students apply or come from, Populi uses the home town field.  I find that this field is rather inaccurate for this purpose at least for Graduate schools.  For undergraduate application, most students' hometown is their home address of where they grown so the reporting is more reliable.  But for graduate schools where the demographic and age range of students varied greatly, you have students that could be from State A, but currently living in State B when they are applying.  For us, it will be more useful to get a report showing where students are coming from based on their current address rather than their "home town"...which may not be their current address.  

Thanks!

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  Christal Fehr November 12, 2013 18:22

  As long as this change isn't made across the board as we love the "home town" field as an undergraduate school.

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  Mary Neel August 15, 2017 20:59

  We find that 'hometown' is misleading in accurately reporting a student's 'in-state' 'Out-of-State' status. We are going to try to map their address field from their applications to 'hometown'.

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  Kim Huizinga February 02, 2025 10:13

  Hometown is also tied to the student's time zone.  This makes the times for everything inaccurate for students who are not currently residing in their hometown.  Most people think of hometown as the place they grew up and not the place they are currently residing.  We need to track current location and not hometown.  Could you at least make the time one link to the current address rather than the hometown?  Thank you.  This would help our students tremendously.

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  Adam Sentz February 03, 2025 19:02

  Kim Huizinga - An individual's Time Zone is an independent setting that isn't tied to either their Hometown (where they are from originally) field or their Primary Address (where they currently reside). Users should set their own Time Zone in their Settings to wherever they are right now (which might be where they are from or where they reside or neither of those) to see correct Dates & Times in Populi. If you have further questions about this please reach out to Populi Support.