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.
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Feature summary
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Enriched Admissions Data New
- Enriched admissions data for 750+ U.S. 4 year institutions.
Constantly updated from multiple sources, including the Common Data Set, school institutional research and factbooks and press releases - 500+ departmental profiles spanning 65 popular institutions - Plus and Premium only
- 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
- Enriched admissions data for 750+ U.S. 4 year institutions.
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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
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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
- Ultra-selective override option to automatically categorize schools as unlikelies when below a threshold admission rateNew
- Evaluate assured admission criteria for 80+ institutions New
- Evaluate minimum institutional GPA requirements for 100+ institutionsNew
- Automatically updates each time the student's college list or academic credentials change
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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
- "No Regrets" option to allow early admission options to be considered for unlikely schoolsNew
- Automatically update each time the student's college list or academic credentials change
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Large Practice Solution
For larger practices with multiple consultants covering 60 students or more
- Each consultant is provisioned a dashboard to track and manage progress of their assigned students
- Visibility at individual consultant and overall entity levels
- Assign students to counselors
- Bulk convert accounts to student mode
- Accepted, denied, waitlisted, attending
- Financial/merit aid received
- Applicant hooks
- Applied test-optional
- 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
Multi-user support
Manage studentsNew
Track admission outcomes
Reporting
