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College OS

For students and parents

Turn your college list into a strategy.

College OS uses your stats, goals, intended majors, and preferences to find personalized matches, build a School Strategy for every finalist, and create a report your family can use to compare schools and decide where to focus.

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See how College OS works

Free through May 1, 2027 · No credit card required · Works on mobile

Illustrative example: a match card for Purdue University showing a reach tier for Computer Engineering, the school's SAT middle-50% band of 1220 to 1470 with an illustrative score of 1390, an acceptance rate of 49.9%, and a Regular Decision deadline of Jan 15. Each figure carries a source receipt.

What you get

Three things your family walks away with.

  1. 01

    Personalized matches

    Discover safety, target, and reach schools matched to your academics, goals, intended majors, preferences, and affordability considerations.

    Ready minutes after you add your stats and goals.

    Illustrative example: a balanced list of three schools, one each at safety, target, and reach.

  2. 02

    School Strategy

    For every shortlisted school, see what helps, what could hurt, and the highest-impact moves to make next.

    Starts the moment you shortlist a school.

    Illustrative example: a School Strategy for Purdue University, Computer Engineering, with three sections in this order: what helps, what could hurt, and what to do next.

  3. 03

    Top College Matches Report

    Compare finalists, admissions routes, costs, program strengths, career outcomes, and major risks in one decision-ready report.

    Built from your shortlist whenever your family is ready to decide.

    Illustrative example: a Top College Matches Report comparing Purdue University, Virginia Tech, Iowa State University across fit, tier, application round, cost posture, program strength, and biggest risk.

Three surfaces, three jobs

School Strategy
Guidance about one particular college.
Compare Schools
A side-by-side look at the finalists you pick.
Top College Matches Report
A synthesized recommendation across the whole shortlist that your family can revisit and share.

How College OS works

From your stats to a report your family can act on.

  1. Step 01

    Add your stats and goals

    GPA or test score, intended majors, preferences, and the context that makes your list yours.

  2. Step 02

    Find personalized matches

    Review an editable set of schools grounded in your profile, not a generic ranking.

  3. Step 03

    Shortlist finalists

    Choosing a school begins its School Strategy.

  4. Step 04

    Review and compare strategies

    Understand the route, strengths, risks, and next actions for each finalist.

  5. Step 05

    Build the family report

    Synthesize the shortlist into priorities and tradeoffs everyone can act on.

Students and parents

Students know what to do next. Parents can see the strategy, progress, and tradeoffs without managing another spreadsheet.

For students

Understand what to do next and keep essays, deadlines, and recommenders connected to the strategy for each school.

For parents

See the active student's matches, strategies, deadlines, and tradeoffs, and support more than one student from the same family workspace.

Execute the plan

Once you have a strategy, College OS helps you execute it.

Keep deadlines, essays, recommenders, readiness, scholarships, decisions, and calendar milestones connected to the same plan.

  • Deadlines and readiness

    Deadlines, the submission checklist, decisions, and Google Calendar sync.

  • Essays and materials

    Essays, activities, a résumé, and a plan for reusing what you write.

  • Recommenders

    Requests, assignment by school, status, and follow-up.

  • Opportunities

    Scholarships and competitions matched to your profile.

Works on your phone as an installable app, so the plan travels with you.

Trust and limitations

Decision support, not admissions guarantees.

College OS combines the student's profile with institutional and admissions data to produce personalized guidance. Recommendations are decision support—not admissions guarantees—and important requirements should always be confirmed with the university.

Numbers carry their sources: admissions figures in College OS show where they came from and when they were checked.

Institutional data comes from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and official university sources.

Read the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Build a college strategy your family can act on.

Start free — no credit card, no pressure. Free for the whole admissions season, through May 1, 2027.

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