With PathAdvisor - Student, high school student Nick learned a critical lesson.

When you know yourself better and have clarity on what you want to study, you

• Create a better list of colleges;

• Write better, more authentic college essays; and

• Feel like you’re on the right track in choosing a college major and career path with purpose.

PathAdvisor helps make college and career planning about you, not your numbers.

The challenge of making a post-high school plan

Nicky felt like the college planning process was a minefield. He was overwhelmed by conflicting advice from peers and adults, FOMO and stereotypes about “prestigious” colleges. College costs of $35,000 - $100,000 a year were intimidating.

No advice from school on choice of major

Although he was lucky to have an excellent school counselor, his school’s college planning platform was one-dimensional. Limited to college characteristics and admittance rates, it offered no guidance on choosing a major or career path.  The focus was all on choice of college.

Majors not guaranteed at some schools

For some direction, Nick explored the website of his nearby big state university.  He discovered all the business and STEM majors were “capacity constrained” leaving him with a high stakes decision about a major. If you apply to certain majors and don’t get in, you don’t get into the university at all. He felt confused and frustrated.

That’s when Nick’s mom introduced him to PathAdvisor - Student. Using the app on his own, Nick learned how to

• do a 5-minute career well-being self-reflection check in,

• identify his best fit college majors and career direction for himself, in his words – “the math-side of business,” and

• evaluate different careers based on pay, made more real by his hourly wage at a retail store.

• evaluate colleges based on whether they could guarantee the best-fit major of his choice - critical to ensuring his long-term success.

Nick’s unique gifts shape his future

He narrowed his college list with confidence and wrote college essays that felt more like him. He filled out the first-choice college major section of the Common App with intention, not a guess.

Today, he’s excited about his choices knowing that wherever he is accepted, he will have a “math side of business” major where he will thrive.

“PathAdvisor helped me figure out what I want to study in college.  It feels less like a shot in the dark and more like I know what I’m doing.”—Nick, High School Senior

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Nick and Cristian used PathAdvisor to be more intentional about their future.

They discovered education, activities and career paths that lead to greater happiness.

You can too.