As a student, when I search in Google for College Scorecard, the description under the result should be a good synthesis of the purpose of the tool

[LisaGee]

What it says now:
College Scorecard .... On average, college graduates earn $1 million more ... 15 public four-year colleges with high graduation leading to high incomes ...

It should say something more easily readable, more descriptive and as an overview.
this is what another site says:
College Scorecards make it easier for you to search for a college that is a good fit for you. You can use the College Scorecard to find out more about a college's ...
College Scorecards in the U.S. Department of Education's College Affordability and Transparency Center make it easier for you to search for a college that is a ...

[LisaGee]

@jjoteal Can you take a crack working with Clare and the comms team on what the ideal language we could use here?

[barkimedes]

@jjoteal Ping? Can you (and maybe @claremccann ) figure out what the wording here would be?

[jjoteal]

@barkimedes here is the text from Clare that has also been approved by Michael:

Find the college that’s the best fit for you! The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard has the most reliable data on college costs, graduation, and post-college earnings.

[barkimedes]

@jjoteal Thanks Jess!! @abisker who do we assign this one to now that we have content?

[abisker]

Adding @shawnbot now that we have the language, thanks @barkimedes!

[shawnbot]

Ready for testing on dev now that #1458 is merged.

[barkimedes]

@shawnbot Any idea how we test this on dev?

[shawnbot]

@barkimedes hmmmm, not that I know of. Does Google have an app that lets you preview how a URL will appear in search results?

[shawnbot]

This is still open. We might need to add a plain old description in addition to the og:description to make sure Google gets the right thing.

[ultrasaurus]

We've got og and twitter descriptions, but maybe cuz we're a plain old meta description, so we still see just the page text:

[shawnbot]

Good news: it looks like Google has picked up the new description:

Moving to accept.

[barkimedes]

woot!! 😄 💪 💻 🇺🇸