When it comes to searching for colleges, everyone wants truthful advice.

But where is such a reliable source? The answer may be Unigo.com.

Launched in September, this free site, unlike most  (like collegeconfidential.com), is student-produced.

Only seven of 117 high school-students polled  had heard of Unigo.

Ironically, one of the first to know was headmaster Stephen Repsher.

“I’d read about Unigo in The Wall Street Journal in February, and it seemed interesting. I told Ms. Fels about it to share with the students,” Repsher said.

Although Unigo has only 250 college profiles at the moment, it is still growing.

The site contains student-produced videos, picture galleries, college profiles, and written documents.

In a video by Northwestern sophomore Nisha Chandran, she talks about the school’s social scene. “Most of the state schools have a bigger social scene, but you tend to get lost in the crowd of people,” Chandran said.

Topics on Unigo vary from clothing trends to the most accessible professors to the best and worst dorms.

Unigo also features top-10 lists, where students rank colleges in categories ranging from colleges where students feel the most safe on campus to those with the biggest drug culture.

Under the colleges with the biggest drinking culture, Washington and Lee University ranks first. And the college with the safest campus is Pitzer.

The site also features unedited videos by current students. 

Senior Joanna Derman finds Unigo similar to an online version of “Fiske Guide to Colleges” and “An Insider’s Guide to Colleges,” but she prefers collegeconfidential.com.

“Collegeconfidential.com is more likely to be updated daily than Unigo,” Derman said.

Although this site has been a relative secret up to now, it is ready for the class of 2010.

“It’s funny that this old guy actually knew something that most of the high schoolers didn’t,” Repsher said.