With test-optional driving a new normal in college admissions, it's essential to stay on top of the latest national trends and how they impact test submission strategies locally for your students.

Put College Kickstart to work for you. We'll help you:

• Track the latest standardized testing policies and score submission rates by institution
• Automatically handle test-blind/score-free institutions when analyzing academic performance
• Analyze and recommend opportunities to apply test-optional for each school in a student's list
• If you use flags in your system of record to track students who applied test optional, we'll prepare reports to help you assess the impact of test submission on your historical results

It's a terrific way to ensure consistency across your team and evolve your test submission strategies looking forward.

If schools like Boston University, Northeastern and USC are popular with your students, you've seen firsthand why you can't afford to rely on stale admissions data to guide college plans.

College Kickstart helps you stay on top of the changes and minimize surprises. We start with the Common Data Set as our foundation, and enrich it in several ways to make sure you're working with the latest and most complete data available. We scour institutional research websites, news releases and other credible sources to track current year early and regular admission rates, key application requirements, affordability data, and even admission rates for 400+ departments across 60 popular institutions including Cornell, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, UCLA and the University of Virginia.

Spend less time data hunting and more time being your student's college whisperer.

College Kickstart not only keeps vigil on the data for you, it also empowers your students to take greater ownership of their college plans.

Given a list of schools they have in mind and their academic credentials, we'll help:

• Ensure their lists are balanced and set up for success
• Capitalize on early admission opportunities
• Minimize wasted effort along the way
• Track key application requirements
• Consider affordability as part of the plan

Better yet, plans are automatically updated each time the student's list of schools or academic profile changes.

It's incredibly easy to use and a far better way to get and stay organized.

Managing student/parent expectations is always a delicate task.

Let us relieve some of the stress by providing hard data to support what you know instinctively. Our objective, data-driven approach takes the emotion out of the equation and lets you spend less time being the bearer of bad news and more time on setting your students up for success.

Better yet, with our local context option enabled, you'll be able to leverage your high school's historical admissions data to drive how schools are categorized in College Kickstart. It's a powerful way to reflect the admissions reality for your specific high school

When the hard data isn't fully accounting for an applicant's special talents or circumstances, stay in control with counselor adjustments.

Counselor adjustments allow you to adjust how schools should be categorized for a particular student, making it easy to incorporate qualitative factors into list assessments.

It's a terrific way to handle applicants with special talents or circumstances, applicants applying to highly selective majors and/or applicants with inconsistent academic credentials.

Less time keeping vigil on the data and implications for your students means more time to do what you do best: advise.

Our counselor dashboard makes it easy to track the latest plans and activity history for each student under your charge. You'll have one-click access to:

• Plan summaries
• Key application requirements
• Need-based financial aid ratings
• Merit-based financial aid ratings

You'll also be able to track the impact you're having on list quality, early admission and wasted motion and quickly identify students who need more attention.

In search of an easier way to document progress with students and parents?

Our personalized plan reporting feature makes it easy to create professional quality deliverables to document progress and guide students forward. The report closely follows the structure of our web application and may be customized with your school logo and tailored commentary for each student.

Whether you use it after the first meeting, before the summer kicks in or in the early fall as you finalize plans, it's a terrific way to create an audit trail and ensure students are on the right track.

With college admissions headed to a new normal, there's an acute need for insights to guide the way.

Those insights start with national trends, but ultimately rely on your command of local results.

That's why we created CK 360™. CK 360™ is a powerful data visualization tool designed to help you glean critical insights from your data with ease.

Always on, insights to questions are always just a click or two away. It's a tremendous resource to navigate a changing admissions landscape and support conversations you're having with students, parent, team and board. Fee-based option

Outcome reports simplify the task of board reporting. You'll be able to import student outcomes, generate admission and matriculation summaries, compare school results to the latest national data and rankings, and even analyze results by quintile.

If you track outcomes directly within College Kickstart, you'll even be able to track admission rates by school category (e.g likelies, targets, reaches and unlikelies) as well as by student preference (top 1/2/3 choice)

All reports can be generated as PDFs or exported to Excel for additional spreadsheet jockeying.

Of course, it's not just about outcomes, it also about the journey to get there. College Kickstart makes it possible to track the impact you've had on that journey through our plan impact report. You'll be able to track student engagement levels and the impact you're having on list quality, early admission and wasted motion.

Use College Kickstart in the way you feel most comfortable. Plans can be driven by you, the student, or begin with you and passed to the student when you deem them ready. Better yet, you can decide on an individual student-by-student basis when to pass control, if ever.