Hobsons and Parchment Partner to Offer Secure Electronic College Application Submission

Exclusive partnership provides seamless electronic education credentials management

June 07, 2012

Scottsdale, AZ and Arlington, VA – Hobsons, provider of Naviance, the most widely adopted college-and career-readiness platform for K-12 schools and districts and Parchment Inc, the education credentials data pioneer, today announced an exclusive partnership. Together, the two organizations will allow students to securely send application forms, recommendations, and transcripts electronically through Docufide by Parchment® to more than 1,700 participating colleges and universities.

The combination of Docufide by Parchment and Naviance eDocs – a tool that allows schools to prepare and send college application documents electronically – offers users reduced time, resources and costs, and provides the peace of mind that applications will reach post-secondary institutions quickly and securely. This exclusive agreement extends the companies’ successful partnership serving thousands of schools – enabling Naviance members to send more than 13 million documents so far this application season.

In addition to the improving staff efficiencies, Naviance eDocs also dramatically decreases costs associated with college applications: postage, time saved from staff, and ancillary costs. Before Naviance eDocs, many schools primary relied on submitting paper-based transcription, school profiles, and recommendations to colleges.

“Naviance eDocs has transformed the way schools manage the college application process,” says Stephen M. Smith, president of Hobsons K-12. "Schools have traditionally tracked and sent hundreds or thousands of documents supporting students' admission applications manually, including letters of recommendation, transcripts, and other required forms.  Docufide by Parchment is uniquely positioned by virtue of the size of its network of senders and receivers and its status as a trusted intermediary to be the conduit for Naviance eDocs transmissions, through our partnership with Parchment we are able to streamline the entire process with secure electronic document exchange; helping schools free staff to focus on guiding students toward success rather than rote administrative tasks.”

“Naviance is the cornerstone of college-going culture for thousands of schools and districts across multiple countries,” says Parchment CEO Matt Pittinsky. “I am thrilled that they have decided to design and integrate Naviance eDocs around Docufide.  The company was a natural choice for a partnership that improves the electronic college application process.”

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