APPLICANT ANALYTICS FOR A MULTIUSER SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

1 . A method comprising:

storing member qualification data for a plurality of members of a social networking system in a memory of the social networking system;

receiving, from a client system, an education institution interest indication, wherein the education institution interest indication identifies one or more education institutions of interest to a first member of the client system;

receiving an analytics data request from the client system, wherein the analytics request indicates a first education institution;

determining a list of other members of the social networking system that have indicated interest in the first education institution;

generating comparison data for the first member and the determined list of other members, wherein comparison data compares member qualification data of the first member and the determined list of other members; and

transmitting the generated comparison data to the client system.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the member qualification data includes test scores, demographic data, education history, grades, and work history.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the education institution interest indication identifies a particular time frame.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing member education institution interest indication data in a database of education institution interest.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the database of education institution interest includes interest information from a plurality of other members of the social networking system.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the comparison data further comprises:

dividing the qualification data for the first member and the list of other members into one or more categories.

7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

for a respective category in the one or more categories:

generating a category score for each of the first member and the list of other members; and

ranking the first member and the list of other members relative to each other based on the generated category score.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

determining the first member's rank among the list of other members.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising generating a visual representation of the first member's relative ranking in the list of other members.

10 . The method of claim 8 , when the list of other members of the social networking system that have indicated interest in the first education institution is determined based on interest data stored in an education institution interest database.

11 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the one or more categories are based on default categories stored at the social networking system.

12 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the one or more categories are determined based on a custom request received from the client system.

13 . A system comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs stored in the memory, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

storing member qualification data for a plurality of members of a social networking system in a memory of the social networking system;

receiving, from a client system, an education institution interest indication, wherein the education institution interest indication identifies one or more education institutions of interest to a first member of the client system;

receiving an analytics data request from the client system, wherein the analytics request indicates a first education institution;

determining a list of other members of the social networking system that have indicated interest in the first education institution;

generating comparison data for the first member and the determined list of other members, wherein comparison data compares member qualification data of the first member and the determined list of other members; and

transmitting the generated comparison data to the client system.

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the member qualification data includes test scores, demographic data, education history, grades, and work history.

15 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the education institution interest indication identifies a particular time frame.

16 . The system of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for storing member education institution interest indication data in a database of education institution interest.

17 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

storing member qualification data for a plurality of members of a social networking system in a memory of the social networking system;

receiving, from a client system, an education institution interest indication, wherein the education institution interest indication identifies one or more education institutions of interest to a first member of the client system;

receiving an analytics data request from the client system, wherein the analytics request indicates a first education institution;

determining a list of other members of the social networking system that have indicated interest in the first education institution;

generating comparison data for the first member and the determined list of other members, wherein comparison data compares member qualification data of the first member and the determined list of other members; and

transmitting the generated comparison data to the client system.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the member qualification data includes test scores, demographic data, education history, grades, and work history.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the education institution interest indication identifies a particular time frame.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , further comprising instructions for storing member education institution interest indication data in a database of education institution interest.