Contests

College Life is getting ready for school to start again and they want to send you back to school in style, with a new Apple iPad.

And as a little end-of-summer project, College Life wants your help in designing a brand new iPhone/iPad app for college. We want to hear your best ideas of what you’d want in an App, and then we’ll let the users vote on the best ones. The winner will receive a brand new 16GB iPad and be given a conceptual credit on the app itself. Go ahead and put that on your resume. At the very least, you’ll be able to answer the question, “What did you do with your summer vacation?”

Here’s how you enter the contest:

Step 1: Give us an idea for an App that you would actually use.

Enter your concept in the comments below. It can be anything- from an App to help you study to an App to help you party. We just want to build something that fits our name: College Life. Give us a real idea, something that you would actually use. If it looks like you’re just trying to waste our time, you’re not going to win. It’s that simple.

Step 2: Put up a link to this post and have your friends vote you up.

To qualify for the iPad, you put a link to this post on your favorite social network and have your friends vote you up. We don’t care if you use Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Posterous, or MySpace (but really, who uses MySpace anymore?). The voting is crucial, because the 16 posters with the most votes on August 15th will be selected to go into the second round.

If you’re to lazy to send your friends to the site, then you can also friend us on facebook or follow us on twitter instead.

You can enter multiple ideas for an app into this contest, so long as with every entry you either link to the comment from an external website or friend one of our social networks.

Contest Schedule

This contest will be open for entries from July 15 to 11:59 PM PST August 15, 2010. The top 16 entries will then be selected and entered into the playoff system that we developed for the Christmas Video Contest

The playoff will go like this:

Second Round: August 16-20.
Semifinal: August 21-25
Final: August 26-30

The winner will be announced on August 31, and will receive their iPad just in time for the beginning of the semester.

Official Rules

All entrants must be 18 years or older. Multiple entries are allowed, but will only qualify if they follow the steps listed above. The application concept must be an original idea from the entrant. Plagiarized or stolen ideas will result in immediate disqualification from the contest. Entrants must provide a legitimate concept and link to this post from another site in order to qualify for the prize. College Life reserves the right to publish/create a mobile phone application based on any of the concepts entered into this competition. By entering, contestants yield intellectual rights to the concept to College Life. College Life will not produce an application based on a concept provided without first notifying the entrant, however, guarantees no compensation, monetary or otherwise, for use of the concept. College Life will not sell nor use contestants’ information for anything outside of notifying entrants or otherwise communicating with the contestant. The contest will be discontinued unless a minimum of 30 qualifying entries have been entered by 11:59pm PST, 8/15/2010. College Life reserves the right to cancel the contest at any point for any reason, as it is there contest and their prize in the first place. iPad and Apple are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. Apple, Inc. share no affiliations with College Life or it’s sister sites.

Funny Christmas Story Contest:

You've heard that we're giving away a Play Station 3 to the funniest Christmas video. However, we figure that all willing participants should have a chance to win something, and everyone has a funny memory about Christmas time. Whether it's a story from the front lines of holiday shopping, the misadventures of caroling or relatives coming over for various holiday get togethers we've all had our share of comic mishaps.

We want to hear your funniest Christmas story, and we're willing to put some gifts under your tree for it.

Enter your story in the comments section HERE for a chance to win a Nintendo DS or a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate. For extra entries, link back to the contest on your blog, Facebook, or Twitter. You must leave the URL of where you bookmarked us in order for the extra entry to count. There is no limit for extra entries.

We'll pick a random winner on Christmas Day. Consider this our way of making Christmas extra merry.

You must be 18 or older to enter. Please leave a quality story or link in order for your entry to count. Best of luck to all those who enter and Happy Holidays to all!

Christmas Comedy Video Contest:

Christmas is a time of giving, a time for sharing, a time for ridiculous songs and movies. To celebrate this season properly we felt it was only appropriate to host our first ever Christmas film festival.

We’re looking for a fresh, funny take on the holiday, and so (like the rest of America) we’re starting Christmas early. Whether it’s a spoof on a familiar Christmas tale or a new spin on a classic carol, we’d like to see your hysterical take on Christmas lore. The contest will be open for submissions until the week before Christmas.

Submit your funniest video to us and you’ll have the chance to deck your halls with one of these awesome prizes. First prize will be a brand new PS3.

First Place:

Sony PlayStation 3

Make us laugh our little pointy elf shoes off with your video.

Rules and Submission:

Official Rules:

You have to be 18 or older.

You have to be the original creator of all content– No copyrights that aren't your own.

No Profanity, Violence or Sexually Explicit videos.

How to Enter: Upload your video to YouTube and place the link in the comments HERE. Keep your videos shorter than 5 minutes.

WE MUST HAVE AT LEAST 10 VIDEO ENTRIES IN ORDER TO GIVE AWAY THE PS3. Please note, the PS3 will only be offered if there are a minimum of 10 video entries. For your chance to win the PS3, you may enter one video to qualify.

Entries will be closed Dec. 12th at midnight. The videos will be entered into a voting competition that will determine the winners. Voting will close on Dec 19th and the winners will be announced on the 20th.