The Tool Library
Small tools, built for the parts of this
process that feel hardest to think through.
We keep building these because families keep needing them. Each one is free, each one stands on its own, and the library grows as our work does.
Most used tool
The College List Bracket
Head-to-head, until a real favorite emerges.
A long college list is not a plan — it's a delay. The bracket asks the only question that actually sorts a list: this school or that one? Add every school under consideration, choose between two at a time, and watch preferences a student could never articulate become obvious on the screen.
- Ends the endless list
- Twenty-four schools become a ranked top ten in about ten minutes of honest choosing.
- Reveals the real criteria
- Students discover they care about size, city, or studio access far more than the name on the sweatshirt.
- Defuses family debates
- The student's own choices do the arguing, so visits and applications start from agreement.
Opens collegelistshowdown.com in a new tab.
University Explorer
Admissions detail, highlights, and honest lowlights
Profiles that go past the marketing copy — what a school genuinely does well, and where it may not suit a particular student.
Summer Program Database
Searchable, comparable, current
Hundreds of programs with deadlines, costs, and selectivity. Save the interesting ones and compare them side by side.
GPA Calculator
Weighted and unweighted, on either scale
Letter grades or percentages, Regular / Honors / AP-IB weighting, 4.0 or 5.0 scale. Useful before a transcript conversation.
More to come
A tool is only worth building if it makes a student think more clearly. If there is something you wish existed, tell us — we will probably build it.
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