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Six focused services for students applying to US colleges, wherever they live:

a five-college shortlist, a counselor-ready AP plan, real-feel Digital SAT practice, an extracurricular roadmap, one Roster workspace for your profile, chances, applications, and essays, plus a financial aid forms playbook.

6 Student services
4 Grade years
$0 Every tool
Proven outcomes16 campuses

Over the past 10 years, EduFinder's student services have helped more than 5,000 students worldwide earn admission to schools like:

School names and marks belong to their respective institutions and do not imply endorsement or affiliation.

9th grade begins

Six services, one path. Start early, finish strong.

9th grade

Fall → Summer · 3 tools
Fall · 9th grade

Pick the schools worth chasing.

Freshman year begins. Know what you are aiming at before you build everything else around it.

The Shortlist! Builder

Twenty questions. Five US colleges that fit.

Answer 20 questions in about seven minutes, some practical, some about how you think and decide.

We match you to five schools from a curated list of 417 U.S. colleges, each with its own fit writeup.

Start Your Shortlist
Spring · 9th grade

Build the AP schedule you can defend.

With your schools chosen, lock next year's AP subjects with your counselor before summer, and re-run this every year you choose courses.

The Resolve! Planner

AP picks, backups, risk flags, and an adjustment pass.

Tell us your major, transcript, target colleges, current courses, and schedule constraints. Resolve scores the College Board AP catalog against a structured evidence layer before writing your plan.

You get three picks, two backups, sequence advice, risk flags, and one adjustment pass if a pick falls through. Roster profile details import automatically if you have them.

Start Your Planner
Summer after 9th grade

Score the SAT colleges keep asking for.

With your course plan set, practice over the summer, then sit the SAT. One question bank covers every retake, and most students test two to three times.

The Challenge! Series

Full adaptive R/W tests with instant scoring and explanations.

Practice full Digital SAT R/W tests in the real two-module format, with an adaptive Section 2, instant scoring, and explanations for every question.

Patterns are drawn from 100+ real SATs, with a downloadable PDF for night-before review.

Start Your Practice

10th grade

Spring · Roster milestone 1
Spring · 10th grade

See how you really compare.

Now that you have a test score, see what it actually means. End sophomore year knowing exactly where you stand, so junior year targets the gaps that matter.

The Roster! Board

Profile & Chances: a dated read for up to five priority colleges.

Tell us your academics, activities, context, and up to five schools. We compare your profile against more than 50,000 U.S. college admissions records.

Your chance read gives each school a dated band and confidence level, names the top gap, gives priority fixes, and remains separate from the list buckets you control.

Refresh it anytime as your profile changes, and each new version shows your momentum since your last read. A parent can follow along with an optional weekly email.

Open Profile & Chances

11th grade

Pursuit + Roster milestone 2
Fall · 11th grade

Turn yourself into a profile, not a to-do list.

Junior year, the one that decides most of your application, opens here. Start building your extracurricular story now, and keep re-running Resolve and sitting the SAT with Challenge as you go.

The Pursuit! Atlas

A complete extracurricular roadmap built from who you are.

Answer a survey of small, almost trivial questions. Together they reveal your interests, temperament, values, and constraints, and a scoring engine ranks dozens of activity paths against them.

Your atlas gives five to eight activities with how-to-start steps, a phased roadmap, stretch ideas, and real, dated opportunities. Your shared Roster profile can prefill the relevant details.

Start Your Atlas
Spring · 11th grade

Lock your list before senior year.

Junior year closes with your list finally firming up. Sort every school into Reach, Target, and Safety against your own stats, then carry one checklist of deadlines and requirements through senior fall.

The Roster! Board

College List: sorted by fit and tracked to every deadline.

Roster sorts every school into Reach, Target, or Safety against your GPA, test scores, and rigor, then tracks each one's deadlines and requirements (platform, test policy, recommendation letters, ED, EA, and RD rounds) in one editable checklist.

Your essays live there too. Track every school's supplements, your shared Common App personal statement, and the UC Personal Insight Questions by status and word count, then pin an angle from your reusable Roster idea library.

Your shared profile and Shortlist matches carry in, so you organize and track instead of starting from scratch.

Start Your Board

12th grade

Roster milestone 3 + Aid
Summer before 12th grade

Write the essay only you can write.

With your list locked, your essays are what set you apart. Shape your own details into an essay angle, or get a line-level read on a draft you already wrote.

The Roster! Board

Essays: reusable story angles, progress, and feedback on drafts you wrote.

Answer 39 small questions across seven discovery moves. The editor turns them into up to five ranked essay angles, with a voice palette, motif map, AI coaching grounded in your answers, and a print-ready export.

Already wrote a draft? Paste or upload it for a line-level read, the angles still hiding in it, and a revision plan. It coaches and never writes a word for you.

Open Roster Essays
Fall · 12th grade

File the aid forms without the costly mistakes.

As applications go in, the FAFSA and CSS Profile open. Map which forms each college needs and avoid the errors that quietly cost families aid.

The Aid! Playbook

A financial aid forms playbook built around your family.

Answer a short survey with a parent (income and assets as ranges only, never exact amounts). The playbook maps each college to FAFSA-only or FAFSA plus CSS Profile, flags the mistakes that fit your family, and lays out documents, deadlines, and an appeal plan. Then a guided walkthrough takes you through the FAFSA and CSS Profile step by step, with your family's notes beside each one.

The FAFSA is free, and we never complete or file any form for you. This is an educational guide, with the official sites linked throughout.

Start Your Playbook

Senior year: you apply

Twelfth-grade fall. Submit with everything in place.

Student reviews 5.0 average

Students at top schools, in their own words.

Five EduFinder students on five stages of the journey, from the first SAT section to the final aid form.

"The Challenge! Series was the first SAT practice that actually felt like the real exam, right down to how the hardest questions are worded. I stopped guessing what to study and just worked through the explanations until the patterns clicked."
Seoyeon P. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology · United States
"I had twenty colleges on a messy list and no idea which were realistic. The Shortlist! Builder found the possibilities, and Roster's Profile & Chances area was honest about where I stood. For the first time my list felt like a plan."
Minjun K. Choate Rosemary Hall · United States
"As an IB student, choosing subjects and activities was overwhelming. Resolve! Planner mapped my courses term by term, and Pursuit! Atlas turned my scattered interests into an extracurricular roadmap I could actually follow over two years."
Rachel T. United World College of South East Asia · Singapore
"I had a strong story but kept telling it the boring way. Roster's idea library pulled ranked angles from my own answers, each with a clear tension to build around. It did not write a word for me; it showed me which idea was worth the essay."
Yuhan L. Wycombe Abbey · United Kingdom
"Financial aid as an international student felt like a black box. The Aid! Playbook walked me through the CSS Profile step by step and flagged the mistakes families like mine tend to make. I finally understood the forms instead of fearing them."
Haoran W. Phillips Academy Andover · United States

Shared by EduFinder students. Last names abbreviated for privacy.

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: human-written SAT-style questions based on 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.

Will this write my essay for me?

No. Roster Essays does not write the essay. Its idea library returns ranked angles built from your own thirty-nine answers, and Draft feedback quotes only sentences you wrote, describes fixes, and asks questions. It never writes or rewrites a word of the essay for you.

Can I see a sample first?

Yes. Every service is free to use, and you can open a full sample before you sign in. The Challenge! Series has a three-question demo; Shortlist, Resolve, Pursuit, Roster, and Aid each provide a realistic sample. The unified Roster sample includes Profile & Chances, College List, and Essays.

Who built this?

A small team of educators with US-college admissions experience, based in Seoul, plus engineers. The same people designed the question bank, the prediction model, and the editor, and tested them in real classrooms before anything shipped publicly. 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.