Plans for High School Counselors

Subscriptions to College Kickstart for Counselors run on a calendar year basis and are based on the number of students you wish to have covered. This way, there's just one fee to take your students from January 1st of junior year through December 31st of senior year.

Each student will gain access to the Premium edition of College Kickstart for Students/Parents ($125 value/student), and each of your counselors will get a dashboard to track and manage student progress at no extra charge. As part of the subscription you'll also receive product and admissions data updates throughout the year, as well as email-based technical support.

We'd love to hear about your needs and put together a plan that makes sense for you, whether you're advising 50 students or 500.

Please schedule a demo or send us an email and let's talk.

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Feature summary

Enriched Admissions Data ^New
- Enriched admissions data for 750+ popular U.S. 4 year institutions.
  Constantly updated from multiple sources, including the Common Data Set, school institutional research and factbooks and press releases
- 400+ departments with admissions data for 60+ popular institutions - Plus and Premium only
- Resident/non-resident admission rates for 30+ selected public universities - Plus and Premium only
- Key application requirements - Plus and Premium only
- Affordability data (need-based and merit-based aid) - Premium only
- Active tracking of standardized testing policies
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
- Academic rigor
- Custom GPA (100 point scale etc.)
- Exclude rank from profile
- 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
- Test-optional recommendation engine
- Recommend list mix improvements
- Take corrective action using MixFixer™
- Personalize recommendations based on list and academic credentials
- Track assured admission criteria for 50 public universities ^New
- Automatically update each time 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 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 and target schools
- Automatically update each time 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 update each time 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:
- Select mode of operation for each student individually
- One-click access to plan details
- 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
Local Context Workbench
- Import historical admissions data
- Analyze results
- Configure settings for local context schools
- Context-sensitive configuration assistant
- Auto-publish
- View detailed school admission history with filterable scattergrams
- Auto-convert scattergram profile to custom profile
Personalized Plan Printing
- Print professional-quality college plans for your students
- Brand with your logo
- Include custom commentary
- Exclude action plan section when desired
CK 360™ ^New
- Data visualization tool for instant admission insights
- Import data from Naviance, Scoir, Maia Learning or Cialfo
- Custom flag support
- Export to CSV or PNG
- For-fee option
Reporting
- Import historical admissions data
- Platform support
- Track admission outcomes
- Outcomes reporting
- Test-optional reporting
- Plan impact reporting
- Counselor adjustment reporting
Self-Service Administration ^New
- Add students
- Deactivate students
- Assign students to counselors
- Bulk convert from counselor to student mode
- Bulk upload student profiles
- Resend student welcome emails ^New
- Add/delete counselors ^New