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Plans for Independent Counselors

When you do the math, your cost per student is approximately one hour of your billable time. We know that we can save you an hour of time.

Prices are based on a college application season from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. All plans listed below are designed for one counselor.

Subscriptions for the 2025 application season will open on December 1st.

See the feature summary below

 

Professional Discount
HECA and IECA members receive a 20% discount on any College Kickstart for Counselors plan.  Get your promo code now 

5
STUDENTS
$625
PER SEASON
10
STUDENTS
$1,100
PER SEASON
15
STUDENTS
$1,575
PER SEASON
20
STUDENTS
$2,000
PER SEASON
25
STUDENTS
$2,350
PER SEASON
30
STUDENTS
$2,700
PER SEASON
35
STUDENTS
$2,950
PER SEASON
40
STUDENTS
$3,200
PER SEASON
50
STUDENTS
$3,500
PER SEASON
60
STUDENTS
$3,800
PER SEASON

 

 

          

Feature summary

  • Enriched Admissions Data New
    • Enriched data covering 750+ U.S. 4 year institutions.
      Constantly updated from multiple sources, including the Common Data Set, school institutional research websites and factbooks and press releases
    • 400+ departments with admissions data for 60+ popular institutions
    • Resident/non-resident admission rates for 30+ selected public universities
    • Key application requirements
    • Affordability data (need-based and merit-based aid)
    • Active tracking of standardized testing policies and entering class score submission rates
  • Student Profile

    School list

    • Enter lists of 6-30 schools
    • Rank orderable
    • Indicate strength of commitment to top choices

    Academic credentials

    • SAT section scores
    • ACT composite score
    • Weighted GPA
    • Unweighted GPA
    • Class rank
    • Run with or without test scores
  • List Analysis New
    • Categorize list into likelies, targets, reaches and unlikelies based on school selectivity and student academic credentials
    • Assess list quality
    • Recommend list mix improvements
    • Take corrective action using MixFixer™
      • Automatically find likely, target and reach schools for your list based on school selectivity and student academic credentials
      • Filter schools by up to five majors
      • Filter schools by tag
      • Filter schools by size, setting or locale
      • Filter schools with no extra Common Application essay
      • Filter schools offering early action
      • Filter schools offering early decision 1
      • Filter schools offering early decision 2
      • Filter schools with need-blind admission policies
      • Filter schools that meet 100% of demonstrated financial need
      • Filter schools with low debt at graduation
      • Filter schools with great merit aid
      • Filter schools with automatic merit scholarship consideration
      • Filter schools with low net cost of attendance
      • Filter schools with no application fee
      • Filter schools offering test-optional admission
    • Personalize recommendations based on list and academic credentials
    • Track assured admission criteria for nearly 60 institutions New
    • Automatically updates each time the student's college list or academic credentials change
  • Early Strategy
    • Recommend appropriate strategies across entire list
    • Prevent applying early to unlikely schools
    • Ensure terms and conditions are met for each early opportunity recommended
    • Consider schools with rolling admission and multiple priority windows
    • Automatically update each time the student's college list or academic credentials change
  • Action Plan
    • Prepare and recommend action plan to minimize wasted motion
    • Capitalize on early admission opportunities and/or schools with rolling admission or multiple priority windows
    • Ensure merit scholarship deadlines are met for likely or target schools
    • Automatically update each time the student's college list or academic credentials change
  • Plan Details

    Provide supporting detail for each school in list, including:

    • Whether the school is a likely, target, reach or unlikely school and why
    • Whether to pursue early decision, early action, restrictive early action or regular decision and why
    • When to apply and why
    • Applicant, admitted and enrolled student mix
    • Admission rate by admission plan (where available)
    • Academic performance assessment
    • Affordability rankings for need and merit-based aid, as well as key supporting metrics
    • Source data notes
    • Automatically updates every time the student's college list or academic credentials change
  • Counselor Dashboard
    • Track activity history and progress for each licensed student
    • Personal use license included as well
    • Flexible modes of operation:
      • College plans are 100% driven by counselor
      • College plans are 100% driven by student
      • Counselor prepares and reviews initial plan(s), then assigns control to student when ready
    • Select mode of operation for each student individually
    • One-click access to plan details
      • Plan summary
      • Key application requirements
      • Need-based aid
      • Merit-based aid
    • List progress report
    • Track impact on list quality, early admission and wasted motion for individual students and across entire practice
      • List grade and trend
      • Early opportunities found
      • Early admission average rate boost
      • Applications avoided if admitted to highest ranked school
      • Application fees avoided if admitted to highest ranked school
  • Counselor Adjustments
    • Ability to adjust how schools are categorized for a student
    • Adjustments tracked on individual student basis
    • Track reasons for adjustments
    • Option to keep adjustment reason private
    • Works in both counselor and student modes
  • Personalized Plan Printing New

    Available for Counselor plans with 10 students or more

    • Print professional-quality college plans for your students
    • Brand with your logo
    • Include custom commentary
    • Exclude action plan section when desired
    • Embedded hyperlinks New
      • Your Brand

      Your Brand

      Deliver professional-quality college plans with your logo and custom commentary
      Assumptions and Findings

      Assumptions and Findings

      Summarize plan assumptions and findings
      List Check

      List Check

      Assess the college list for balance and odds of success
      Early Admission

      Early Admission

      Help your client capitalize on early admission to skew odds more in their favor
      Action Plan

      Action Plan

      Create an action plan to minimize wasted motion
      Plan Summary

      Plan Summary

      Summarize overall plan recommendations
      Key Application Requirements

      Key Application Requirements

      Provide key application requirements for each school in your client's list
      Need-Based Financial Aid

      Need-Based Financial Aid

      Consider need-based financial aid as part of the plan
      Merit-Based Financial Aid

      Merit-Based Financial Aid

      Consider institutional merit scholarship opportunities as part of the plan
  • Large Practice Solution

    For larger practices with multiple consultants covering 60 students or more

      Multi-user support

      • Each consultant is provisioned a dashboard to track and manage progress of their assigned students
      • Visibility at individual consultant and overall entity levels

      Manage studentsNew

      • Assign students to counselors
      • Bulk convert accounts to student mode

      Track admission outcomes

      • Accepted, denied, waitlisted, attending
      • Financial/merit aid received
      • Applicant hooks
      • Applied test-optional

      Reporting

      • Outcome report to track results and trends
      • Plan impact report to track student engagement levels and impact on list quality, early admission and wasted motion

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