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29 November 2023

Sneak Peek for Independent Educational Consultants (2024)

Posted in College Kickstart

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Independent Educational Consultants and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage and more tags, we've enhanced our test-optional analysis and commentary and embedded hyperlinks into Personalized Plan PDFs.

 

 

 

 

 

 


What's New for Independent Consultants in 2024

Expanded School Coverage

Expanded School Coverage

Our coverage universe now exceeds 725 four-year U.S. based institutions as we continue to enhance regional coverage and specialized institutions based on customer feedback. For high school customers, we've also added IE Business School (Madrid) and Hult International Business School to the list of international schools supported in College Kickstart through local context.


New Tags

New Tags

New tags have been added to identify great schools for international financial aid and for degree-seeking students with learning differences.

We've also updated the JEWISH tag to a list of institutions compiled by Hillel.org with high Jewish populations based on student count and percentage.

Finally, the tag list has been organized by category to help you find ones of interest more easily.


Enhanced Test-Optional Analysis and Commentary

Enhanced Test-Optional Analysis and Commentary

For 2024, we've enhanced your ability to navigate a test-optional world in the following ways:

  • Our proprietary recommendation engine now considers both strength of score and score submission rate as part of the analysis.
  • Commentary has been expanded to better explain our test optional or test submission rationale.
  • For high school customers using score submission tracking in Scoir ("Test Optional") or Cialfo ("Test Submitted"), we will automatically convert these into flags for reporting and CK 360™

Embedded Hyperlinks in Personalized Plan PDFs

Embedded Hyperlinks in Personalized Plan PDFs

Ask and you shall receive! Personalized Plan PDFs now include embedded hyperlinks to allow your students to explore key application requirements, majors and affordability straight from the PDF, without the need for extra Googling.

We'll fill you in on the details in January.  In the meantime, feel free to learn more about College Kickstart for Counselors, schedule a demo or check out what our customers have to say by clicking on one of the buttons below.

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