The Common App opens August 1
Senior year is here!
Get organized now.
The families who start this summer will spend August clicking "submit." Everyone else will spend August scrambling. CollegeHound keeps your college list, essays, deadlines, scholarships, and next steps in one shared Binder.
Takes less than 2 minutes. Just your email, student's grade, and high school.
Dog Days of Summer Special: $9/mo or $99/yr (normally $15/mo).
Free Binder — no credit card. Scout AI starts at $9/mo. Grades 9-12.
“Before CollegeHound, I felt very lost on how to prepare. Now I am going to have a less stressful senior year.”
Rising senior
The Binder. Everything your senior needs in one place.
Both of you can see it. Neither of you has to ask “did you update the spreadsheet?”
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College list with deadlines.
EA, ED, RD, rolling — all tracked in one place. Never miss a deadline because it was buried in an email.
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Essays saved, every draft.
Common App personal statement, supplementals, scholarship essays. Nothing gets lost. Nothing gets overwritten.
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Activities, awards, and GPA.
Captured once and ready when your student needs them for applications, brag sheets, and scholarship forms.
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Contacts and recommendations.
Track who your student asked, when the letter is due, and how to submit. No more guessing.
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Parent and student views.
You see what matters to you. Your student sees what matters to them. Same data, different perspectives.
The Binder is free. Not free-for-now, not free-with-limits. Free forever.
CollegeHound Plus
Meet Scout. Your senior year co-pilot.
Scout knows your student's GPA, test scores, activities, and college list — and gives guidance based on their actual profile, not generic advice.
Personalized college fit
Scout looks at your student's actual profile and tells you which schools are reaches, targets, and safeties. With reasoning, not just labels.
"What should we do next?"
Scout looks at where your student is in the process and tells you what to focus on this week. Actual next steps, not a generic checklist.
Essay help that is not cheating
Scout helps your student find their story and brainstorm angles. It does not write the essay for them. That is actually the point.
Scholarship search
Find scholarships that match your student's profile, interests, and background. Track deadlines and requirements alongside everything else.
Scout is normally $15/mo.
Dog Days of Summer Special: $9/mo or $99/yr. Cancel anytime.
What families and students are saying
“Our family LOVES CollegeHound. You built something so necessary for HS families.”
Christina Winter
Educator & Parent
“The college journey can feel overwhelming for kids with learning challenges but CollegeHound makes it manageable. Scout is a standout feature.”
Lindsay Strobl, MA, LSC
Executive Function Coach
“Before CollegeHound, I felt very lost on how to prepare. Now I am going to have a less stressful senior year.”
Rising senior
“Absolutely pivotal. Never seen another website that gives so much information.”
Rising senior
“I thought the AI would give generic answers, but it actually read my exact stats.”
Rising senior
Independent student test
A student tested Scout against ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot across 16 college planning questions.
Scout won. The biggest gap? Personalization. Scout was the only AI that used the student's actual GPA, test scores, and activities to answer. The others gave generic advice.
What it costs and why.
Dog Days of Summer Special
Scout Monthly: $15/mo → $9/mo
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Scout Annual: $180/yr → $99/yr
The Binder
Free
Forever. No limits.
- GPA, classes, activities, awards
- College list with deadlines
- SAT, ACT, AP tracking
- College visit notes
- Contacts and recommendations
- To-Do list
- Parent and student views
Scout Monthly
$15/mo
Cancel anytime.
- Everything in the Binder, plus:
- Scout AI advisor
- Personalized college fit scoring
- Deep college research
- "What should we do next?"
- Essay brainstorming
- Less stress, more clarity
Scout Annual
$180/yr
Billed once.
- Everything in Scout Monthly
- Same features, better price
- Best value for senior year through decision day
Here is why we charge for Scout instead of making it free and selling ads or taking referral fees from colleges: because the moment we take money from a school, Scout stops working for your family.
No college pays us to be recommended. No ad network sees your data. Scout works for you because you pay for it. That is the whole model.
We are Shelley and Ed — parents of a senior. We built CollegeHound because we needed it ourselves.
The Common App opens August 1.
The Binder is free. Add Scout AI for $9/mo or $99/yr (normally $15/mo). Cancel anytime.
I know this is a lot. I am living it too.
Start Your Senior Year BinderFree Binder — no credit card. Scout AI $9/mo or $99/yr.