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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
Craft college plans with the most current and comprehensive data
Does College Kickstart help students find schools that match their interests?
Does College Kickstart replace a high school counselor or college consultant?
Don’t sweat reporting the admission outcomes to the Board
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Troubleshooting - 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?
How do I export a file as a CSV in UTF-8?
Counselor - How do I Resend the Welcome Email to my Students?
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Troubleshooting - Counselor Dashboard Features
How do I edit a Student's profile?
Counselor - How to View Student History?
Counselor - What is the Progress Report for?
Counselor - How do Counselor Adjustments work?
Counselor - What is the suitcase for?
Troubleshooting - Standardized Testing
College Kickstart Now Handles Test-Blind Admissions
How do you Handle Test-Optional Admissions in College Kickstart?
Running College Kickstart without a standardized test score
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 admissions handled?
What factors into an early admission recommendation?
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High School Counselors
How to run a student’s college plan using Rigor
Getting Started for High School Counselors
What Reports are Available for High School Counselors?
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Uploading content from multiple Sources of Records
Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution
Getting Started for Independent Consultants - Large Practice Solution
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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 to enter your Standardized Testing scores
How do I see a list of all of the schools you cover?
What should I do if I'm not able to rank my schools in order of interest?
How do I add, delete, and reorder schools on my list?
What's the difference between selecting a school or selecting a department within a school?
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List Check
What's the difference between likely, target, reach and unlikely schools?
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?
Early Admissions
How can you help maximize admission odds?
What is early admission?
What is early decision?
What is early action?
What is restrictive early action?
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 do the Financial Aid Ratings work?
Plan Highlights
What are the Plan Highlights?
What is the Summary View?
What can you get from the Requirements View?
Counselor - Can I Print the View Reports Individually?
Settings - HS & Large Practice Solution
Can I convert Student accounts to be Student-powered in batch?
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 a student's academic profile?
How do I manage Counselor accounts?
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Local Context
How do I import data for local context analysis?
Understanding Local Context
Can I Create a Report from the Local Context Data?
How to Read the Scattergram for Content?
Reports
Outcomes Reports - What states does a region cover?
How do I record admissions outcomes for my students?
Plan Impact Report
Outcomes Reports - How do I import data for Outcomes Reports?
Outcomes Reports - What are the definitions of each of the terms in the reports?
Outcomes Reports - Outcomes Summary Report Overview
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Board Reporting Service
Board Reporting overview
Uploading your historical data for the Board Reporting Service
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Counselor - How do I Resend the Welcome Email to my Students?
How do I edit a Student's profile?
How do I manage Counselor accounts?
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What should I do if College Kickstart stops working following an update?
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