For counselors

Your students arrive prepared. You don't log into anything.

The average school counselor carries roughly 400 students, and a college meeting is fifteen minutes — most of it spent reconstructing context. Ladder2College students bring that context with them: one page, generated from their own planning, free.

The student preps in a free app

List building on honest federal data — real net prices, whole-degree costs, earnings by major. No account, data stays on their device.

They bring you one page

List balance, cost-fit verdicts, missing deadlines, and the questions worth your fifteen minutes — including the fee-waiver ask students never make.

You install nothing

No dashboard to check, no login to manage, no district procurement. The student hands you paper or a text.

The packet, exactly as a student hands it over

Generated by the actual product from a sample student — not a mockup. Note what it flags: the "safety" the family can't afford is called what it is.

# Counselor briefing — Maya (sample student)
11th grade · Class of 2027

**Development stage:** Deepen
**Working on next:** Lead a project end to end · Ask for real feedback

## College list (5)
| School | Read | Cost fit | Plan | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UMass Amherst | Target | Within budget | RD | 2027-01-15 |
| Salem State University | Safety | Within budget | — | not set |
| Northeastern University | Reach | Over budget | EA | 2027-01-01 |
| Boston University | Reach | Over budget | — | not set |
| University of Vermont | Safety | Over budget | — | not set |

## Worth flagging
- 1 "safety" over budget — not actually a safety
- 3 schools with no deadline set

## Questions for our meeting
- University of Vermont look like safeties on admission but not on cost. What would you swap in?
- Is there a fee waiver, local scholarship, or program I qualify for that I would not find on my own?

_Activities logged: 6 · Essays: 1/2 drafted._
_Cost fit is relative to family budget; specific figures intentionally omitted. Prepared with Ladder2College._

Cost fit reaches you as a verdict ("over budget") — never the family's income or budget figures. That rule is enforced in the code that builds the packet.

Advising students toward the US from abroad?

Two things make this data more useful outside the US, not less. International students usually pay close to the full published cost — little US need-based aid applies — so our sticker and out-of-state figures are the honest planning number for your families. And a family investing its savings across an ocean deserves to see what graduates of that major, at that school, actually earn — which we show for thousands of programs, from US federal data.

What we don't do, said plainly: no visa or I-20 guidance — your role and the university's international office own that. Published admit rates are for all applicants; international admission is often more selective, and we show the published number and say exactly what it is. Net-price-by-income figures apply to US aid filers only.

Join the founding counselor cohort

We're building the counselor side of Ladder2College next — and building it with working counselors, not for imagined ones. The counselor dashboard doesn't exist yet. Founding counselors shape what it does and doesn't do, and get first access when it ships. What's already decided: we don't sell student data, and we take no placement commissions — ever.