With multiple boards and degrees in this country, starting your application process for a university abroad can be quite the hassle. Where do you start? You begin by seeking the advice of friends who have successfully pulled it off — because you can't always trust the Internet. But if you aren't lucky enough to have such people around, you might as well Google it. And that is still quite a hunt. So, when the US Embassy launched an app last week to help aspiring students find the right university, it reflected the need for official information to be relayed on one platform.

But how effectively do they manage to solve this? We ask two collegians in their final year — Shardul Deshpande from St Xavier's College and Piyush Sharma from KC College — to put the app to the test.