Admissions Planning for a Fraction of the Cost
A private in-person counselor costs $5,838 on average. Waystone costs as little as $35
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Build your teen’s profile. When you’re ready, run the analysis. You’ll then get gaps, strengths, school recommendations, activity scoring, essay angles and more, in minutes. Choose the access that fits where you are in the planning process.
More than one child in the family you need a profile for? No problem, select the tier that is right for you. Do you want to create multiple profiles for the same child, Waystone has you covered there as well. We have made it easy to copy profiles and make tweaks as you go.
Every membership includes:
- Full 8-section analysis of your student’s profile
- Up to 9 school recommendations
- 6 personal statement angles drawn from real experiences
- Activity scoring with a specific gap-closer plan and deadlines
- Career and degree alignment analysis
- AI impact analysis
- A clean, branded PDF you can download, save, and share
- Access to our College & Major finder with ROI by income and debt scores
- Access to our Flagship report detailing exactly how many students from each state are admitted
- Access to over 300 common data set reports in one location
Ten sections. One document. Built for your student.
Every analysis is generated from your student’s actual profile — courses, activities, sports, GPA, test scores, career target, and state of residence. Nothing is generic.
School recommendations
Five schools matched to your student’s academic profile, career goal, and financial situation — one Reach, three Good Fit, one Safety. Each includes the average admitted GPA, SAT range, acceptance rate, and any documented connections to agencies in your student’s target field.
Tuition strategy
In-state or reduced tuition is analyzed for your student’s situation, regional reciprocity compacts, military and veteran exceptions.
Activity scoring and gap plan
Every activity your student profile is evaluated and emulated to score the way an admissions officer would score it. The gaps that matter most are identified, ranked by impact, and paired with a specific action and deadline — not a general suggestion.
Three personal statement angles
Each angle is drawn from your student’s actual experiences — not a template. Each one includes the specific moment to anchor the essay in, the quality it reveals, and what makes it stand out to a reader who has seen thousands of applications.
Career and degree alignment
The report connects your student’s degree choice and school selection to their profile — including GPA floors, preferred degree types, and the skills that differentiate candidates in competitive applicant pools.
PDF you can share
Every report exports as a clean, branded PDF with your student’s name, grade, career target, and date of analysis. Share it with a private counselor, a school advisor, or keep it as a planning document to revisit throughout the year.
What families want to know before they start.
Most college planning tools help families find schools. Waystone starts from your student’s career goal and works backward — which degree, at which school, with which activities and specializations, leads to that job. That’s a different question, and one no general-purpose tool is built to answer.
A comprehensive in-person counseling engagement costs $5,838 on average — covering 2 to 4 years of service — according to IECA’s 2024 survey. Essay help alone runs $1,500 to $3,000. Waystone is not a replacement for a counselor who knows your student personally, but it brings career-specific intelligence that most generalist counselors don’t have, at a fraction of the cost.
Update the profile and re-run the analysis. The 3-month and annual plans include unlimited re-runs — so if your student completes a new certification, retakes the SAT, or changes their career target, you can generate a fresh report that reflects where they actually stand. There’s no extra charge.
The school recommendations are built from each institution’s published Common Data Set — the same data admissions offices report. Activity scores reflect how admissions readers actually evaluate extracurriculars. The analysis is directional and research-grounded, not a prediction. No tool — and no counselor — can guarantee an admissions outcome.
Which Flagships Want Your Out-of-State Student
See 10 years of enrollment data on 100+ public universities — which flagships recruit students from other states, which are capped at the door, and where the scholarship money is.
Map your student’s path now.
A complete admissions strategy built around your teen’s specific profile.
Takes approximately 10 minutes · Results generated instantly