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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
Troubleshooting - Common Questions
Troubleshooting - Counselor Dashboard Features
Troubleshooting - Standardized Testing

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
    • 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
    See all 14 articles

    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?
    • Where can I find my invoices and payment history?
    • How do I export a file as a CSV in UTF-8?
    See all 9 articles

    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?
    See all 10 articles
  • Just for You

    High School Counselors

    • Getting Started for High School Counselor Admins
    • How to run a student’s 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 Sources of Records

    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 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?
    See all 9 articles

    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?
    See all 9 articles

    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
    See all 20 articles
  • Board Reporting Service

    Board Reporting overview

    • Which Reports Are Available as part of the Board Reporting Service?
    • Uploading your historical data for the Board Reporting Service

New Articles

  • How do I edit a Student's profile?
  • How do I manage Counselor accounts?

Promoted articles

  • 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?