Thousands voted, but only one of our College Guide contestants could win it all: Amanda Abadi of the University of Tampa.
Her inventive video — which we refer to informally as "Crocodile Dundee Meets UT" — drew 6,694 votes in our College Guides 2009 contest. Readers were asked to choose their favorite entry from a collection of videos, photos and essays created by seven students as portraits of their respective schools.
Amanda is a second-year MBA student at UT, which she also attended as an undergrad; all that experience must have helped, because her video takes in just about every corner of campus life.
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2009.