Dog Days of Summer Special
The Common App opens August 1.
Let's get your student ready.
Essay prompts are already out. Senior year gets busy fast. CollegeHound gives your student one place to organize their college list, activities, awards, essays, deadlines, scholarships, and tasks. Then Scout helps them figure out what to do next.
Free Binder — no credit card. Scout AI is $9/mo or $99/yr during the Dog Days of Summer Special.
“Before CollegeHound, I felt very lost on how to prepare. Now I am going to have a less stressful senior year.”
Rising senior
Start with the summer basics.
Scout helps with the rest.
You can find college checklists anywhere. There are millions of them.
The difference is that CollegeHound gives your student one place to collect their actual information — colleges, grades, test scores, activities, awards, essays, deadlines, scholarships, notes, and to-dos. Then Scout helps make sense of it.
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Build a college list.
Not a dream list. A working list with deadlines, application types, and reach/target/safety categories. Start now so August is not a scramble.
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Start essay brainstorming.
The Common App prompts are already published. Summer is when your student has time to think, not October when everything is due at once.
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Log activities and awards.
Your student has done more than they think. Capture it now while they remember the details — hours, roles, what they contributed.
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Plan recommendation letters.
Identify which teachers to ask, prepare a brag sheet, and have a plan before the first day of school when every senior asks at once.
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Research scholarships early.
Many scholarship deadlines fall before college application deadlines. If you wait until fall, you have already missed some.
The Binder is free. Not free-for-now, not free-with-limits. Free forever.
CollegeHound Plus
Scout knows what to do this summer.
Because it knows your student.
Scout reads your student's GPA, test scores, activities, and college list — then tells you what to focus on right now. Not generic summer checklists from the internet. Actual next steps for your family.
"What should we be doing this summer?"
Scout looks at your student's grade level, profile, and college list — and tells you exactly what to prioritize before school starts.
"Which schools fit my student?"
Summer is when college lists take shape. Scout tells you which schools are reaches, targets, and safeties based on actual stats — not guessing.
"Help me start my essay."
The prompts are out. Scout helps your student find their story and brainstorm angles — without writing it for them. Summer is the time.
"What scholarships should I apply to?"
Some deadlines hit before college apps even open. Scout finds scholarships that match your student's profile and tracks what is due when.
“I thought the AI would give generic answers, but it actually read my exact stats. It noticed the gap between my unweighted and weighted GPA and told me how to use my specific extracurriculars.”
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.
Scout is normally $15/mo.
Dog Days of Summer Special: $9/mo or $99/yr. Cancel anytime.
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
$9/mo
Dog Days Special. 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
Best Value
$180/yr
$99/yr
That is $8.25/mo. Billed once.
- Everything in Scout Monthly
- Same features, best price
- Best value for junior 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.
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
“It looks like it's going to be a great resource for families to open lines of communication and be able to plan their students' next steps together. Your work and advocacy in this field support our efforts to serve our students every day.”
High School Counselor
School Counselor
The Common App opens August 1.
Start now.
Dog Days of Summer Special: Scout AI for $9/mo or $99/yr (normally $15/mo). The Binder is free. Cancel anytime.
The families who start this summer will spend August clicking "submit." Everyone else will spend August scrambling.
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