LocAbroad connects new incoming college students with curent college students, helps them make friends, do language and cultural exchange, develop relationships.
Going to start college? Stressed about new city, new environment, new people? Dont want to feel awkward the first day? This is a perfect app for you.
Want to meet new students? Go to college events together? Guide them through their first steps at college and make them feel comfortable? This is a perfect app for you.
LocAbroad is especially useful for international and out-of-state college students to feel more comfortable in a foreign place, make friends. If you have ever been an international student, you will agree how hard it is to leave your family and home and go to a foreign culture. Difficulties with integrating in the new culture, making new friends, renting an apartment, transportation, language etc. etc. LocAbroad allows international and out-of-state students to connect and make friends before arriving, to have someone to hang out with.
Who should use the app? LocAbroad is mainly intended to be used by college students, who are currently at a university. But its use is not limited to that. If you are an alumnus of a university and want to help others with your experience, this is the right app for you.
Simply create an account, fill out your profile with information about yourself, your current and/or future universities, provide some social media links, if you want to, and start searching and connecting with other students.
LocAbroad is free to download and use.