Setup handled for you.
Your relationship manager manages roster import, school historical data configuration, and counselor walkthroughs so your team can get live quickly.
For high school counselors
Data-driven planning that supports every student conversation.
College Kickstart gives high school counselors the data, structure, and student-facing tools they need to manage expectations, build balanced college lists, and reclaim time for the work that matters most: advising.
Spend less time hunting for numbers and more time using them with students and families.
Admissions data counselors trust
Current admissions data, already organized for counseling work.
Counselors should not have to chase down admit rates, testing policies, deadlines, and department-level details across hundreds of institutions. College Kickstart keeps the data organized so your team can spend more time advising.
Built on the Common Data Set and continuously enriched with current-year early and regular admit rates, application requirements, and affordability data across 790+ institutions. Resident and non-resident context plus department-level admission rates covering 600+ departments across 80+ popular institutions round out the picture.
- Common Data Set foundation
- Current-year early, regular, resident, and non-resident admit rates where available
- Application requirements, deadlines, and testing policies
- Need-based and merit-based affordability information
- Department-level admission rates covering 600+ departments across 80+ popular institutions
Build lists that hold up under pressure
Balanced lists, grounded in each student's profile and your school's data.
A balanced college list means every school has been assessed against the student's academic profile, current admissions data, and the context your counseling team brings to the process.
College Kickstart categorizes each school as likely, target, reach, or unlikely, then flags imbalances before they become harder conversations. As a student's list or academic profile changes, the plan updates automatically so your team can stay focused on the next conversation.
Complete admissions context
Testing, affordability, programs, and policy changes in one place.
Stale data undermines even the best counseling. College Kickstart continuously enriches the Common Data Set with current-year admit rates across 790+ institutions, department-level data covering 600+ departments across 80+ popular institutions, testing policies, application requirements, and affordability information.
For test-optional strategy, College Kickstart reviews each school on a student's list and surfaces data-backed submission recommendations tailored to their profile.
College Kickstart brings per-school merit aid indicators into the list, so counselors can help families consider both need-based and merit-based affordability earlier in the process.
What implementation looks like
A small team that knows your school.
Your relationship manager guides setup, training, and ongoing support, helping your team bring College Kickstart into the way your counseling office already works.
A partner your team knows by name.
Victoria, Pamela, Katrina, and Laura stay close to your counselors through onboarding, strategy questions, and year-round support.
Support when the cycle is busiest.
The team is ready around kickoff, early-strategy windows, and decision season, when fast answers matter most.
Counsel with Confidence
A real-time view of every student's plan.
The counselor dashboard gives your team a real-time view of each student's list, requirements, affordability context, and engagement level.
Real-time student visibility
See each student's list, requirements, affordability context, and engagement level in one dashboard.
Local Context = Your school data plus national data
Layer your school's historical outcomes onto national admissions data so list categorization reflects your students' admissions reality.
Counselor adjustments
Modify how any school is categorized when qualitative factors or professional context need to enter the equation.
Measure what you do. Show what it's worth.
Reporting views that make counseling work visible.
CK360 gives schools dashboard views that combine local outcomes with national trends, helping counseling teams prepare for student, parent, leadership, and board conversations throughout the cycle.
CK360 is available as an add-on.
CK360 dashboard
Explore data visualizations that combine your school's outcomes with national trends.
Plan impact
Track how list balance, early application choices, and application activity change over time.
Outcome reporting
Prepare admission and matriculation summaries for leadership and board conversations.
Allows me to have honest conversations with students and families with reliable data. Keeps feedback about college selectivity from being personal or a judgment call.
From your dashboard to their inbox in minutes
Professional plan reports without adding hours to your workflow.
Personalized Plan Reports are generated directly from the platform, customized with your school logo and tailored counselor commentary.
The result is a professional, branded deliverable that documents the plan, clarifies next steps, and keeps students, parents, and counselors aligned.
Works the way you work
Flexible enough for every counseling model.
Plans can be counselor-driven, student-driven, or shared at whatever point makes sense for each student. However your counseling office operates, College Kickstart fits into the process.
Counselor-driven
You manage the plan and share what makes sense for each student.
Student-driven
Students explore, run scenarios, and arrive at meetings ready for better conversations.
Flexible handoff
Move between workflows at whatever point makes sense for each student.
Get started
Ready to build a more balanced college list?
Walk through the platform with one of our relationship managers — usually 30 minutes, always tailored to your school.