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What’s new in College Kickstart - 2022
What’s new in College Kickstart - 2021
What’s new in College Kickstart - 2020
What’s new in College Kickstart - 2019
What’s new in College Kickstart - 2018

Tips and Troubleshooting

Tips for using College Kickstart
Common questions

What’s Behind the Numbers

What’s behind the numbers

Just for You

High School Counselors
Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution
Independent Consultants
Students and Parents

Product Overview

Student Profile
List Check
Early Admissions
Action Plan
Affordability
Plan Highlights
Settings - HS & Large Practice Solution
Local Context
Reports

Board Reporting Service

Board Reporting overview

  • Announcements

    What’s new in College Kickstart - 2022

    • New College Kickstart Features
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - January 1, 2022

    What’s new in College Kickstart - 2021

    • New College Kickstart Features
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - January 1, 2021

    What’s new in College Kickstart - 2020

    • Test-optional tracking
    • Campus Visits Link
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - January 1, 2020

    What’s new in College Kickstart - 2019

    • What’s new in College Kickstart - May 1, 2019
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - March 1, 2019
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - January 1, 2019

    What’s new in College Kickstart - 2018

    • What’s new in College Kickstart - June 20, 2018
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - June 13, 2018
    • What’s new in College Kickstart - January 1, 2018
  • Tips and Troubleshooting

    Tips for using College Kickstart

    • Add your insights and context to our rigorous data
    • Capitalize on Early Admissions with head and heart
    • College Kickstart Now Handles Test-Blind Admissions
    • Counselor - Can I Print the View Reports Individually?
    • Counselor - How can we Hide the Admit Rate?
    • Counselor - How do Counselor Adjustments work?
    See all 21 articles

    Common questions

    • How to Reset Your Password
    • What should I do if College Kickstart stops working following an update?
    • How do I clear my web browser cache?
    • Which devices and web browsers do you support?
    • Exporting Report from CIALFO, MAIA LEARNING, NAVIANCE, or SCOIR for use in College Kickstart
    • How can College Kickstart be best used?
    See all 8 articles
  • What’s Behind the Numbers

    What’s behind the numbers

    • What colleges and universities are covered?
    • Where is the college data sourced and how often is it updated?
    • How are qualitative factors taken into consideration?
    • For rolling admissions, how is a due date determined?
    • How are schools with guaranteed/assured handled?
    • What factors into an early admission recommendation?
    See all 10 articles
  • Just for You

    High School Counselors

    • Can a Student Run a College Plan Using Rigor?
    • Getting Started for High School Counselors
    • What Reports are Available for High School Counselors?
    • What Features are Available for High School Counselors?
    • Uploading content from Multiple Systems of Record (SoR)

    Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution

    • Getting Started for Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution
    • What Reports are Available for Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution?
    • What Features are Available for Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution?

    Independent Consultants

    • Getting Started for Independent Consultants
    • How Independent Consultants Can Upgrade Their Subscription Plans
    • How Independent Consultants Can Renew Their Subscription
    • What Reports are Available for Independent Consultants?
    • What Features are Available for Independent Consultants?
    • How can Independent Consultants Upload their Logo?

    Students and Parents

    • Getting Started for Students
    • How "Students & Parents" Accounts Can Upgrade Their Subscription Plans
    • What Reports are Available for "Students & Parents" Accounts?
    • What Features are Available for "Students & Parents" Accounts?
  • Product Overview

    Student Profile

    • What Academic Profile Information do I need to Provide?
    • How do I see a list of all of the schools you cover?
    • How do I add schools to my list?
    • Are there shortcuts for adding schools to my list?
    • What's the difference between selecting a school or selecting a department within a school?
    • What's the maximum number of schools I can have in a list?
    See all 14 articles

    List Check

    • Grading Refinements for 2018
    • How do you grade a college list?
    • How can I take corrective action to make my list grade an A?
    • When I run Kickstart and my college list gets a bad grade, does that mean I don't have a chance of getting into the schools on my list?
    • What is an unlikely school?
    • What is a reach school?
    See all 9 articles

    Early Admissions

    • What is early admission?
    • What is early decision?
    • What is early action?
    • What is restrictive early action?
    • How can you help maximize admission odds?

    Action Plan

    • Rolling Admissions
    • What's the purpose of the Action Plan?
    • How is it possible to minimize work and cost?

    Affordability

    • How do I interpret the Merit-based Aid Summary?
    • How do I interpret the Need-based Aid Summary?
    • How does the Financial Aid Ratings work?

    Plan Highlights

    • What is the Summary View?
    • What can you get from the Requirements View?
    • How do I switch between different Plan Highlights views?
    • Why is some of the text in the Requirements View blue?
    • What are the Plan Highlights?
    • What does '1C, 2T' stand for in the Requirements View?

    Settings - HS & Large Practice Solution

    • Can I Convert Student Accounts to Use College Kickstart?
    • Can I Create Student Accounts in Batch?
    • Can I hide a List Grade during the early planning stage?
    • Can I Reassign Students to Another Counselor?
    • Can I Update the Student's Profile?
    • How do I Upload a New logo for my School/Organization?
    See all 8 articles

    Local Context

    • Can I Create a Report from the Local Context Data?
    • How do I import data for local context analysis?
    • How to Read the Scattergram for Content?
    • Understanding Local Context

    Reports

    • Advanced Reports - What can I get from Plan and Outcomes?
    • Advanced Reports - What is the Applicant Report for?
    • Counselor Adjustment Reports - Understanding the Adjustment Reports
    • How do I record admissions outcomes for my students?
    • Outcome Reports - Understanding the Test-Optional Detail by Plan Type report
    • Outcomes Reports - How do I import data for Outcomes Reports?
    See all 19 articles
  • Board Reporting Service

    Board Reporting overview

    • Uploading your historical data for the Board Reporting Service

New Articles

  • New College Kickstart Features
  • What’s new in College Kickstart - January 1, 2022
  • Counselor - Can I Print the View Reports Individually?
  • Counselor - How can we Hide the Admit Rate?
  • Can a Student Run a College Plan Using Rigor?
  • Can I Convert Student Accounts to Use College Kickstart?
  • Can I Create Student Accounts in Batch?
  • Can I Reassign Students to Another Counselor?
  • Can I Update the Student's Profile?
  • How to Read the Scattergram for Content?
  • Advanced Reports - What is the Applicant Report for?
  • Outcome Reports - Understanding the Test-Optional Detail by Plan Type report

Promoted articles

  • New College Kickstart Features
  • How to Reset Your Password
  • What should I do if College Kickstart stops working following an update?
  • How do I clear my web browser cache?
  • Which devices and web browsers do you support?