What's new
Plan is in the main menu. It sits next to Explore on a computer and in the tab bar on a phone. Students and parents use the same page.
- Your numbers come first. Enter your GPA and the one test you're taking (SAT, ACT, or none). Every college on your list is sorted into Reach, Target, or Likely for you, and the list re-sorts as you move the score. A ✦ marks a suggestion; tap the group to change it and the site keeps your choice.
- One row per college. Each row shows your Dream, the group, the round, and the deadline. Tap ⓘ for the reasons, the requirements, ways to show interest, and your notes. Ranking your list is gone.
- Rounds start from your Dream. If your Dream has early decision, it starts there. Other colleges use early action wherever it's free. Change any round with one tap. Conflicts appear as one sentence, and a second early round (ED II) is offered only when it fits.
- A cost check for parents. Before any binding round, a parent gets a task to check the cost together, with a link to the college's net price calculator.
- A Scores tab. It shows where your score stands at each college and whether to send it. It suggests another test only when a typical gain would move a college up a group, with the test dates whose scores arrive in time. Test dates become reminders only when you pick one.
- A family calendar. Parents see the school year for each child or for everyone: deadlines, decisions, test dates, and the money dates that are their part. A "Coming up" list leads on phones. One calendar link brings every child's dates into your own calendar app, and the year prints as a list.
- Try it before signing up. Signed out, Plan lets you enter numbers and add colleges in your browser, then save them to an account.
Behind the scenes
The groups and starting rounds come from published rules, never a probability, and every range and date still names its source and year. Each college now remembers whether its group and round are a suggestion or your choice, so new numbers never overwrite a choice. Built in nine parts on separate branches and merged together.