Nobody explains college in plain English. The price, the payoff and the process are scattered across brochures, websites and people trying to sell you something.
Here's the real data. Simple, straight, all in one place.
Be the smartest college planner you know.
The problem
High schoolers' top two reasons for going to college
To make money. To get a good job.
81% each
Few ever see the data on which schools and majors actually lead there.
Everyone has advice. Almost none of it comes with numbers.
Here's what you've been told, next to what the data actually says.
Everyone's focused on getting you in.
Almost nobody shows you what happens after.
Test prep, applications, counselors, rankings, the emails filling your inbox: all are about admissions. Nothing about projected outcomes: jobs, salaries, or whether the job you want will still exist in the age of AI.
You're the one who will live with the outcome.
You need to see this data.
Now you can. No spin. No sales pitch.
What you get
Plus the studies we did to figure out what they mean.
What each major tends to pay at year one and year five, the jobs it actually leads to, which of those are growing over the next 10 years, and how exposed they are to AI. Haven't picked one yet? Good. Compare them all first.
Admit rates at every school, how many freshmen each one takes from your state, how much early decision changes the odds, who gets off the waitlist, the test scores, and how many essays each school wants.
The real price at every school, who actually pays full price, where the merit money goes, and the out-of-state discounts most families never hear about.
Rent, taxes and take-home pay in the cities where the jobs are. What your first salary really buys in New York, Austin or Columbus once you're paying your own bills.
Nobody tells you what to pick. You get the facts. You make the call.
Everything. Well, almost.*
Not an 864-page guidebook. Not 100,000 web pages.
Built for you
Not a personality quiz. Not a list of "best colleges." Your majors, your schools, your numbers.
Build your list. Then see how the schools really compare.
Start with what you're into. See where it leads, in actual jobs.
Rank your schools on what matters to you. Not to anyone else.
Every deadline for your schools, month by month.
Everything above, in one PDF with your name on it.
Where it comes from
No ads. No colleges paying us. Nobody buying your name and email.
Your parents are paying for college. It's still your call. Show them this first.
