ELITE NOTETAKER FOR STUDYSOUP PLUS
Elite notetakers make $4 per set of notes purchased and $8 per study guide, plus the agreed-upon base pay for that course, which is given each time there is an exam. The minimum that can be paid is $25 for one month’s use.
StudySoup requires that a student sign up for a plan with them to access any notes, and there is no feature for a one-time purchase. The chief element that compels students to post their notes is the pay, but while the site claims that elite notetakers can make $300-$500 per course, this may not be the typical case. In this format, freshman notetakers like Krefft are listed with their username, Tulane University, and a 4.0 GPA. StudySoup does not post the age of a notetaker, stating only their name and GPA, if provided, on the top corner of the page. “How can they be ‘elite’ necessarily? A lot of students who were aces in high school don’t do particularly well at a competitive university.” “I’m suspect about the recruiting of first-year students, of freshmen,” said Molly Travis, associate dean and head of the Tulane Honor Board. Some students believe high school success do not necessarily translate to success in a college environment. “They asked for my high school GPA when I applied since I obviously don’t have a college one yet,” freshman Danielle Krefft said. Some of the students StudySoup employs are freshmen who do not yet have a college GPA. Students are asked to include their GPA when applying to be a notetaker, but are not required to provide this information however, StudySoup does encourage students to indicate their GPA to be more marketable on the site. There is no minimum GPA to become a notetaker. Elite notetakers are selected by StudySoup and receive a base payment in addition to the regular commission.Īny student can apply to be an elite notetaker, begging the question: what makes these notetakers so elite?Įlite notetakers must go through an interview and training before they can begin posting their notes and are required to post weekly notes and exam study guides, while regular notetakers simply post their notes whenever they like, and undergo no training. On StudySoup, any student can upload their notes and study guides as a regular notetaker and receive a commission for each sale. The goal, according to Kozinsky, is to even the playing field and to raise the bar in terms of study materials available to students. For those missing class material, an alternative solution, note-sharing sites, raises a host of new questions.Ī new website called StudySoup pays students, whom they refer to as “elite notetakers” to post their weekly notes and exam study guide and then makes these resources available for purchase.Īccording to Sieva Kozinsky, CEO and co-creator of StudySoup, the site was born when he, a good student but poor notetaker, discovered that his co-founder, Jeff Silverman, an excellent notetaker, could make upwards of $500 per exam by selling his notes and study guides. Whether because of a missed lecture, zoning out in class or poorly taken notes, many students find themselves without adequate study materials.
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