Picking AP or IB Courses by Gut Is Expensive.
Most students sign up for APs based on what friends took, what looks impressive, or what happens to fit in the first draft of a schedule.
Three Steps. One Course Strategy.
Pick AP or IB, Then Answer about Your Transcript, Targets, Schedule, and Course Options.
Your Roster profile can supply your major, grade, school, current courses, GPA context, targets, activities, and notes as starting points; you can edit anything.
We Build the Evidence Before the Plan Is Written.
Each AP or IB subject is checked for major fit, transcript story, readiness, workload and time budget, school availability, target-college credit value, schedule feasibility, and strategic balance. The explanation layer only chooses from the closed shortlist; it cannot invent courses.
Get Picks, Fallbacks, Risks, and the Counselor Conversation.
The AP plan gives three picks plus two backups; the IB plan gives a full six-subject diploma package with HL/SL levels and TOK/EE/CAS guidance. Both include sequence advice, risk flags, tempting courses to skip, a counselor checklist, and one included adjustment pass if a pick is unavailable, too difficult, already taken, or rejected. When a year has passed, or a score or a course changed, Update This Plan asks only what moved and writes a new plan beside this one, with What Changed Since Your Last Plan printed on it and the earlier plan still readable.
Every Subject Clears Eight Checks Before It Reaches Your Plan.
The checks run on every candidate, not on a shortlist someone picked first. Whatever survives them is the only thing the explanation layer is allowed to choose from, which is why it cannot invent a course your school does not teach.
Want the reading first? The transcript and credit guide explains how course rigor is judged and what Advanced Placement and dual enrollment credit are worth, and the IB and A-Levels guide covers how US admissions reads a transcript with no AP courses and no GPA.
What Carries In, What Carries Out.
Parents See the Plan, Never the Answers.
A family link starts with one side asking and the other side confirming. Once it is confirmed, this planner shows up as a plain-facts card on the Your Team page of a parent's own dashboard.
What a Confirmed Parent Reads Here.
The AP course or IB subject names on the plan you generated, whether it is an AP or an IB plan, the date it was generated, and how many of the planner's questions you have answered. The eight evidence checks, the risk flags, the courses to skip, and every answer you typed stay off a parent's card.
One more line can appear, and only if you put it there. If you separately share the plan with a school counselor and that counselor records a decision on it, a confirmed parent can read that decision too. That is the only place the two links touch, and both of them stay revocable from your side.
Fair Questions, Straight Answers.
What we would want to know before trusting an admissions tool.
What Is EduFinder Actually Built On?
EduFinder is built on specialist materials and structured admissions data: SAT-style questions that people and EduFinder's AI write and check together from released-test patterns, acceptance-record calibration for chance bands, hand-curated college data, and intake flows designed by educators. AI helps synthesize a student's answers into the final output, but the product is the underlying data, structure, and judgment.
How Does It Choose Which APs to Recommend?
It scores every exam in the College Board AP catalog (42 in all) against eight evidence checks: major fit, transcript story, readiness, workload against your weekly time budget, availability at your school, target-college credit value, schedule feasibility, and overall balance. You get three top picks plus two backups, with the reasoning shown for each, so you can take the plan straight to a counselor. Nothing is recommended that your school does not offer or that your stated constraints rule out.
Does It Work for IB Schools?
Yes. Pick the IB track at the start of the wizard and Resolve plans the full Diploma Programme package: one subject from each group with the official substitution rules, exactly three (or four) Higher Levels, and TOK, Extended Essay, and CAS guidance. It scores all 30 mainstream IB Diploma subjects with the same eight evidence checks the AP track uses, so the plan stays counselor-ready.
Can I Update the Plan without Retaking the Survey?
Yes. On any finished plan, Update This Plan asks only what moved: your grade, the courses you are taking now, your scores, your weekly time, the courses you refuse, and the constraints that must hold. Everything else stays as it was, a new plan is written beside the old one, and What Changed Since Your Last Plan is printed on it with a link back to the earlier plan. If nothing changed, it says so and writes nothing. The one included adjustment pass, for a pick that turns out to be unavailable, is separate and still there. In the spring of 10th and 11th grade, when your newest plan was made in an earlier grade, the check-in on your dashboard reminds you that course selection is open and points here.
Can My Counselor See This Plan?
Only if you approve it. A school counselor with an EduFinder account builds a caseload one student at a time, by email, and you confirm for yourself. That one confirmation covers three things: your generated school matches, the course plan itself, and the application tracking you keep beside each school on your Roster board. A no is final for that link. A counselor you have approved can record an Approve or Reject call on each recommended course, plus comments and an overall note, and that decision appears on your own plan page. That counselor also reads the plan itself, exactly as your own plan page shows it, including the reasoning behind each pick and the snapshot you gave the planner. If you have also confirmed a family link, a parent can read that recorded decision too, but never the plan itself: a parent's card stays the course names, the track, the date, and the answered count. Neither of them sees your raw answers to the planner's questions beyond the count and what the plan itself carries.
Can I See a Sample First?
Yes. You can read a complete sample AP plan and a complete sample IB diploma plan, each built from a realistic student profile, before you answer anything or sign in.
How Much Does the Resolve! Planner Cost?
Your first course plan is on us. Updating it is part of the Pro Membership. The membership is $39 per month (USD), one price for a student, a parent, a teacher, or a counselor, and one membership covers every tool on your account. Creating an account costs nothing, and every plan you have already made stays yours to read, export and print.
Who Built This?
EduFinder was founded by Jiin Baek (Ryan), who has tutored SAT, AP, and IB students since 2016 and advised families on US admissions since 2019, and is built with a small group of contract educators and engineers. Between them, the team has spent years teaching high school students at US boarding schools, UK public schools, and Korean international schools, and the tools were tested in real classrooms before anything shipped publicly. EduFinder is made by Waystar Learning, Inc., a Delaware corporation built in Seoul. The Who We Are page has the longer version.
What Happens to My Answers?
Your intake answers, saved work, and reports stay in your account. We do not share them, sell them, or use them to train models. You can delete the whole account from settings at any time.
One Plan. One Counselor-Ready Course Strategy.
Answer first. Generate yours.
An AP or IB Plan Built around Real Constraints.
- Top 3 AP picks plus 2 backups, or a full six-subject IB diploma package with HL/SL levels
- Major, transcript, target-credit, schedule, availability, and workload evidence
- Risk flags, sequence advice, courses to skip, and unavailable-course fallbacks
- Counselor questions, TOK/EE/CAS guidance on the IB track, one included adjustment pass, and an update that asks only what moved
Running a tool again and updating what it made are part of the Pro Membership.
Free
Your first course plan is on us. Updating it is part of the Pro Membership.
$39/mo
Pro Membership
Per month in USD. One membership covers every tool on your account.
Create Your Free AccountCourse-planning sessions with a private consultant bill by the hour, a mean of $230 an hour by IECA's 2022 survey of its members. This plan argues from your actual transcript; your first one is on us, and updating it as your transcript grows is part of the Pro Membership at $39 per month (USD).
Before We Start
The Basics
Your Membership
Your first course plan was free, and generating another is part of the Pro Membership. Everything you already made stays saved, and your membership page says what to do next.
Your AP Strategy
Your Resolve! Plan Is Being Prepared.