Know exactly what to do next for your college-bound student.
Answer a few honest questions about your student. I'll look at five areas of readiness, tell you the three things that matter most right now, and build you a printable College-Ready Starter Kit written for their grade and your answers.
- Grades 8-12
- No test scores needed
- No financial details
How it works
Three steps from a few questions to a plan you can print.
1. Answer honestly
About 45 straightforward questions across five areas. They adjust to your student's grade, no test scores are needed, and “not sure yet” is a perfectly good answer.
2. See where your student stands
You'll see all five scores, what your family is already doing well, your #1 priority with its first step, and the beginning of your timeline — before you pay anything.
3. Get your Starter Kit
Then unlock the full College-Ready Starter Kit, written for your student's grade and your answers, ready to print and keep on the fridge.
The five areas I look at
College readiness is about more than grades. I score each area on its own so you can see where your family is already strong and where your attention is worth spending.
You and your student can go through it together, or separately and then compare notes.
Academic Readiness
How school is going right now — no judgment, just a snapshot.
College & Career Exploration
Interests and direction. “Not sure yet” is a perfectly good answer.
College-Planning Progress
The planning steps that make sense for your student’s grade.
Financial Preparation
This is about planning know-how, not your finances. I’ll never ask for private financial details.
Family Communication
How you and your student are working through this together.
Inside your Starter Kit
This isn't a generic checklist download. Every page is built from your answers and your student's grade.
Where your student stands
All five areas scored and explained in plain language, starting with what's already going well.
Your top three priorities
The three things that matter most for your student's grade right now, and the first step for each one.
An action plan for their grade
Specific steps based on your answers. Nothing meant for a senior shows up for an 8th grader.
A 6-12 month timeline
What to do now, what comes next, and what can wait, so the year ahead stops feeling like guesswork.
A family discussion guide
Questions for you, questions for your student, and questions to answer together. These conversations get easier with a little structure.
Printable checklists
Separate checklists for you and your student, formatted to print cleanly or save as a PDF.
Here's what you'll actually get
Your Starter Kit is a nine-section plan: your scores, your ranked priorities with the first step for each, a dated timeline, financial steps, discussion questions, and two checklists. It opens in your browser and prints cleanly.
- Nine sections, all built from your answers
- Formatted to print on letter-size paper or save as a PDF
- A private link emailed to you so you can come back to it
This is sample content. Your kit will use your student's name, grade, and answers.
College-Ready Starter Kit
Prepared for the Nguyen family · 10th grade
Readiness snapshot
- Academic PreparationStrong Foundation
- College & Career ExplorationDeveloping
- Application PlanningPriority Focus
- Financial PreparationDeveloping
- Student OwnershipDeveloping
Priority #1 · Application Planning
Sophomore year is when a college list stops being an abstract idea. A rough list now makes course choices, testing, and visits much easier to decide.
First move: Write down eight colleges of different types this week — no research needed yet.
Next 30 days · Confirm the basics
- Review the transcript together
- Register for the PSAT
- Set a monthly 20-minute college check-in
What changes based on your answers
This isn't one document with your name dropped into it. Different answers give you a genuinely different kit. Here are three examples of that at work.
If you tell me
You haven't talked about cost yet
Your kit adds
I'll add a 20-minute cost conversation to your financial steps, plus a walkthrough of the net price calculator so the number feels real instead of scary.
If you tell me
Your senior has no system for deadlines
Your kit adds
Your timeline shifts to two-week blocks, deadline tracking moves to the top of your priorities, and FAFSA and recommendation letters come first.
If you tell me
College talk usually gets tense at home
Your kit adds
Your discussion guide adds a pause-and-come-back agreement, plus separate questions for you and your student to answer alone before you compare notes.
Grade drives everything else. An 8th grader never sees essay or deadline steps, and a senior's timeline is measured in weeks, not years.
Simple pricing
You pay once. No subscription, and nothing else you have to buy.
College-Ready Starter Kit
Your personalized, printable plan.
$49one-time
- The full assessment, adjusted to your student's grade
- Scores and plain-language labels for all five areas
- Your top three priorities and the first step for each
- An action plan built for their grade
- A 6-12 month timeline
- A family discussion guide
- Checklists for you and your student
- A printable PDF plus a private link by email
You'll see your scores before you decide.
Frequently asked questions
Let's get your family a plan.
Whether your student is in 8th grade or applying next month, there's a next right step waiting. It takes 5-8 minutes to find it.
I only use your answers to personalize your Starter Kit and send it to you. I’ll never ask for income, Social Security numbers, or bank information, and I never share or sell your family’s information.