EduFinder by Waystar

Who We Are

The people, the company, and the proof behind EduFinder.

Who We Are

EduFinder, Built by Waystar Learning.

EduFinder is eight services with one purpose: help a student do the real work of getting into a strong US college, and help the teachers who grade that work do theirs. Four services form a single path from ninth grade to the final aid form. One is a Test Bank of full-length exam practice. Three more are built for teachers.

When someone uses a tool here, the result is specific: a practice test with explanations, a matched school list, a data-backed odds report, an essay angle, an AP plan, a graded rubric. Not general advice, but a next move you can act on.

The Founder

Jiin Baek (Ryan), Founder & CEO.

Tutoring SAT, AP, and IB since 2016; advising on US admissions since 2019.

Of the students I have taught and advised, the ones who did best rarely had the most information. They had a plan they believed in, and someone to hold them to it. One tutor can only sit beside so many students, so I built EduFinder to put that kind of guidance within reach of every student, and of the teachers and counselors who guide them. If something here is unclear or wrong, write to me.

Jiin Baek (Ryan)

EduFinder 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.

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The Company

Made by Waystar Learning, Inc.

A guiding star for every ambition.

We build focused brands that turn ambition into a plan. The first, EduFinder by Waystar, guides students through US college admissions.

Waystar Learning, Inc. is a Delaware corporation, built in Seoul. Seoul is one of the world's most demanding college-prep markets, and we build EduFinder close to families, tutors, and academies that treat test scores, school lists, and essays as work that must hold up under pressure. That context shapes the product: plain-English tools for students and families preparing for US colleges, in the US and abroad, especially when they do not have a private counselor beside them.

Legal Name
Waystar Learning, Inc.
Incorporation
Delaware corporation
Team
Seoul, South Korea
Founder
Jiin Baek (Ryan)
Contact
edufinder@waystarlearning.com
Company Site
waystarlearning.com
How It's Made

Educators Set the Standard, and the AI Does the Drafting.

EduFinder's AI drafts, explains, and organizes. Students own their drafts, teachers make the final call on every grade, and a parent sees a student's progress only when the student says yes. Technology can narrow a problem, but every tool has to end in a next move a student, parent, teacher, or counselor can trust.

The practice questions are not the College Board's. Experienced SAT writers and EduFinder's AI write and check them together, based on patterns we extracted from over a hundred released SATs. Each question follows item-writing standards our founder set, is worked blind by a separate AI solver that never sees the answer key, and gets the founder's final review before it reaches the bank.

Find Schools reads cost and outcome data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard alongside hand-curated college data. The Learning guides are written by people, dated, and rechecked each application cycle: every guide prints the day its facts were last checked, and every aid form date in them is read from the checked list below.

Proof You Can Check

Check Everything Here Yourself.

We would rather show you than ask you to trust a number. Every one of these opens without paying, and most without an account.

Facts We Check

Every Aid Form Date We Publish, with Its Source.

Every FAFSA and CSS Profile date on our public pages is typed once, in this list, with the official record it was read from and the day we last read it. A date its record has not published yet says so; we never fill one in from the years before.

Our tests fail when an aid form date is typed by hand into any other public page, when a date for a year whose federal deadline is still ahead goes more than 400 days without a fresh check, when the site moves on to a new award year before that year is on the list, when a guided walkthrough still describes the year before more than 45 days after the new form opens, or when a Learning guide goes more than 400 days without its facts being checked.

Award Year 2027-28

Attendance Covered
July 1, 2027 to June 30, 2028
Checked October 14, 2026. Source: Financial Aid Toolkit (Federal Student Aid), announcement of September 23, 2026: 2027-28 FAFSA Form Now Available
FAFSA Available by Law
October 1, 2026
Checked October 14, 2026. Sources: FAFSA Deadline Act (H.R. 8932, 118th Congress), signed December 11, 2024, which requires the FAFSA to be available by October 1 each year Financial Aid Toolkit (Federal Student Aid), The FAFSA Process
FAFSA Opened
September 23, 2026
Checked October 14, 2026. Sources: U.S. Department of Education press release, September 23, 2026: the earliest FAFSA launch in program history for the second consecutive year Financial Aid Toolkit (Federal Student Aid), announcement of September 23, 2026: 2027-28 FAFSA Form Now Available
Federal FAFSA Deadline
June 30, 2028
Checked October 14, 2026. Sources: Financial Aid Toolkit (Federal Student Aid), The FAFSA Process Federal Student Aid, FAFSA Deadlines (studentaid.gov)
Corrections Deadline
Not yet published
Checked October 14, 2026. Source: Federal Register, Department of Education notices, where the 2027-2028 award year deadline dates will be published
CSS Profile Opened
October 1, 2026
Checked October 14, 2026. Source: College Board, CSS Profile, the application's own page (cssprofile.collegeboard.org)

Award Year 2026-27

FAFSA Available by Law
October 1, 2025
Checked October 14, 2026. Sources: FAFSA Deadline Act (H.R. 8932, 118th Congress), signed December 11, 2024, which requires the FAFSA to be available by October 1 each year Financial Aid Toolkit (Federal Student Aid), The FAFSA Process
Federal FAFSA Deadline
June 30, 2027
Checked October 14, 2026. Source: Federal Register, June 22, 2026: 2026-2027 Award Year Deadline Dates (Department of Education notice 2026-12462)
Corrections Deadline
September 11, 2027
Checked October 14, 2026. Source: Federal Register, June 22, 2026: 2026-2027 Award Year Deadline Dates (Department of Education notice 2026-12462)
Corrections

What We Got Wrong, and When We Fixed It.

When something on this site turns out to be wrong, we correct it and record it here: what the page said, what is right, how long it was live, how we found it and what we changed. An entry is never edited or removed, and our tests fail if one is.

  1. The Learning guide to transcripts and credit, in the list of courses Florida's transfer guarantee leaves out

    It Said
    "Even inside that system the guarantee is bounded, and the exclusions are stated: career and technical preparatory courses, applied courses in the performing arts, clinical courses in health-related areas, skill courses in criminal justice, graduate courses, courses numbered in a reserved range, and, most usefully to know in advance, courses not offered at the receiving institution."
    What Is Right
    Florida's statewide course numbering handbook lists no clinical courses among its exceptions. The exceptions it lists include college preparatory and career preparatory courses, applied courses in the performing arts, skills courses in criminal justice, graduate-level courses, individually evaluated courses numbered 900 to 999, and courses not offered by the receiving institution.
    Live on the Site
    August 2, 2026 to October 15, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while rechecking every dated claim in the guide against Florida's own course numbering handbook.
    What We Changed
    The list now follows the handbook's own list of exceptions and names the handbook it comes from.

  2. The Learning guide to the IB and A-Levels, in Stanford's row of the comparison of credit rules

    It Said
    "Higher Level 5 and above, and no Standard Level credit. No more than 10 quarter units for any single examination, within a 45-unit cap on external credit."
    What Is Right
    Stanford's 2026-27 chart sets the Higher Level score by subject: 5 for Chemistry and Computer Science, 6 for Mathematics, 5 or 6 for Physics, and 7 for Economics, which earns no units. The chart states a 45-unit cap on external credit and does not state a cap for each examination.
    Live on the Site
    August 2, 2026 to October 15, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while rechecking every dated claim in the guide against Stanford's own credit chart.
    What We Changed
    The row now gives the score each subject needs, as Stanford's chart lists it.

  3. The Learning guide to the school profile, in the key term for the CEEB code

    It Said
    "The six-digit identifier College Board assigns a K-12 school; colleges and scholarship programmes carry four-digit ones."
    What Is Right
    College Board's list of score send codes gives colleges and scholarship programs codes of four to six digits, and some US colleges carry five-digit codes. A K-12 school's code is six digits.
    Live on the Site
    August 5, 2026 to October 15, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while rechecking every dated claim in the guide against College Board's own pages.
    What We Changed
    The key term now gives the range College Board's own code list states.

  4. The Learning guide to recommendation letters, in the section on the FERPA waiver

    It Said
    "One mechanical detail decides the sequencing: the answer applies to every college on your list, and it cannot be changed once you invite your first recommender."
    What Is Right
    Common App lets a student change the waiver answer until the first recommender submits a school form or the student submits a first application. Inviting a recommender does not lock it.
    Live on the Site
    August 2, 2026 to October 15, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while rechecking every dated claim in the guide against Common App's own help center.
    What We Changed
    The guide now says when the answer actually locks, everywhere it mentions the lock, and every dated claim in it was checked against its source the same day.

  5. The Find Schools sample on the Find Schools page, the Rose-Hulman card and the five cards' enrollment figures

    It Said
    "The smallest serious engineering school in the country."
    What Is Right
    Rose-Hulman is the smallest school on the sample's list, with more than 2,100 undergraduates by its own count. Whether it is the smallest engineering college in the country is a ranking nobody here had checked, so the card now says what its figures show and ranks nothing.
    Live on the Site
    May 28, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking every hand-typed fact on the site after a visitor's report.
    What We Changed
    Every enrollment on the five cards now reads the figure Find Schools holds from the College Scorecard, to the nearest hundred (Case Western about 6,100, Rensselaer about 5,900, Worcester Polytechnic about 5,300, Stony Brook about 17,400, Rose-Hulman about 2,200), and the sample says which month those figures were pulled.

  6. The Find Schools sample on the Find Schools page, in the card explaining why Case Western ranked first

    It Said
    "Case's required research or co-op requirement is the cleanest version of that on the list."
    What Is Right
    Case's engineering co-op is optional, not required: a paid, full-time, two-semester placement that third- and fourth-year students may choose, which Case says more than 30 percent of its engineering and computer science students take part in. Nothing at Case requires research or a co-op.
    Live on the Site
    May 28, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking every hand-typed fact on the site after a visitor's report.
    What We Changed
    The card now describes the co-op program as Case's own page describes it, and the card's two other reasons now rest on figures Find Schools holds rather than on claims nobody had checked.

  7. The SAT page, in the paragraph about prep books and practice tests

    It Said
    "Khan Academy's free tests skew so soft that College Board replaced its first four Bluebook practice tests in 2025 for being too easy."
    What Is Right
    College Board retired its first three Bluebook practice tests, not four, and its own list of full-length practice tests now begins at Test 4. College Board's pages give no reason for the change, so the page no longer states one, and the sentence about Khan Academy's tests is gone with it.
    Live on the Site
    May 22, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking every hand-typed fact on the site after a visitor's report.
    What We Changed
    The paragraph now says only what College Board's own practice-test list shows.

  8. The Resolve! Planner sample on the Resolve page, the note under Maya's updated plan

    It Said
    "Maya updated this plan in May with one changed answer, a new AP score."
    What Is Right
    AP exams are taken in May and College Board releases the scores in July, so a plan updated for a new AP score is a July update. The note now says July.
    Live on the Site
    September 13, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking every hand-typed fact on the site after a visitor's report.
    What We Changed
    The sample's note names the month the scores actually arrive.

  9. The Find Schools page's FAQ, in the answer to Can I See a Sample First?

    It Said
    "You can open a full Find Schools sample (five real US colleges matched to a real applicant, each with its own fit paragraph) before you answer a single question or sign in."
    What Is Right
    The five colleges are real. The applicant, Mateo Rivera, is fictional, as the sample itself has said since it was written.
    Live on the Site
    June 2, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking every hand-typed fact on the site after a visitor's report.
    What We Changed
    The answer now says the applicant is fictional, and our tests hold every sample on the site to saying so.

  10. The FAFSA walkthrough in The Aid! Playbook, at the step on 529 plans

    It Said
    "A parent-owned 529 saved for a sibling also counts as a parent asset on this student's form."
    What Is Right
    A parent's 529 saved for a brother or sister is not reported on this student's FAFSA. The form counts only the education savings accounts held for the student it is filed for.
    Live on the Site
    July 6, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking the walkthrough step by step against the 2027-28 FAFSA form.
    What We Changed
    Both walkthroughs were checked step by step against the official 2027-28 forms, each now says on its page which day it was checked, and our tests now fail when a walkthrough still describes last year's form more than 45 days after the new one opens.
    Source
    Office of Management and Budget, the approved 2027-28 FAFSA (OMB No. 1845-0001), on reginfo.gov

  11. The list of services on the Who We Are page

    It Said
    "The Aid! Playbook files the aid forms without the costly mistakes."
    What Is Right
    The Aid! Playbook maps which aid forms each college needs and the costly mistakes to avoid. You file the forms yourself, on the official sites; the Playbook never files anything.
    Live on the Site
    July 4, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    We found it ourselves, while checking the Who We Are page after a visitor's report.
    What We Changed
    The line now says what the Playbook does. The Aid page's FAQ already said it: we never complete or file a form for anyone.

  12. The Aid! Playbook sample on the Aid page

    It Said
    "The federal FAFSA deadline for this award year is not until June 2027, more than half a year later."
    What Is Right
    The federal FAFSA deadline for 2027-28 is June 30, 2028. June 30, 2027 is the deadline for 2026-27, the year before.
    Live on the Site
    July 25, 2026 to October 14, 2026
    How We Found It
    A visitor told us.
    What We Changed
    The same wrong date appeared in two places on the page; both now read the date from one list of aid form dates, each with the official record it comes from and the day we checked it, and our tests now fail when an aid form date is typed by hand into any public page.
    Source
    Federal Student Aid, FAFSA Deadlines (studentaid.gov)
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Why Now

AI Is Raising the Bar, Not Lowering It.

AI will shape nearly every student now in high school or college. Some read that as permission to study less; some fear it will take the future they are preparing for. We think both miss the point.

Powerful tools do not remove the need for human excellence. They move it. When anyone can produce a decent result at the push of a button, what becomes scarce is a person who genuinely understands the work, and the trust that they do. That shift changes what students should aim for, and what teachers need to protect.

For Students

Why the Right School Matters More, Not Less.

Here is the uncomfortable part. When everyone can generate similar output, the output stops being what sets people apart; the credibility of the person behind it does. You can already see this logic in the market for modern art, where a piece is priced less on the canvas than on whose name and record stand behind it.

A trusted school works the same way. A degree from a place like Harvard is valuable not only for what is learned there, but as a credible signal that its holder can be relied on, exactly the kind of signal that grows scarce and valuable when output itself is cheap. So the answer to the AI era is not to study less. It is to study hard, and with the right strategy, so you build genuine ability and earn credible proof of it. That is what the four-service path and the Test Bank are for.

For Educators

Grading Has to Change, so Teaching Can Stay Human.

If a take-home essay can be produced by a chatbot in seconds, a grade on it no longer tells you what a student actually knows. That is not a reason to fear AI. It is a reason to redesign how we measure learning, so genuine achievement still shows through.

Our three teacher tools do exactly that. The Syllabus! Planner drafts a full curriculum with an AI-resistant assessment plan anchored to your standards. The Rubric! Studio grades in-class handwritten work, including math and diagrams, and typed work collected online, against your own rubric, quickly and consistently, with your final say on every grade. The Letter! Desk turns a recommender's real anecdotes into a grounded recommendation-letter draft with a candid coaching read, so every student gets a letter only their teacher could have written. By taking the mechanical weight off assessment and paperwork, they free teachers for the work only a human can do: building the best possible materials, and helping each student grow in courage, faith, and empathy. That is how today's students become tomorrow's pioneers.

Our Mascot

Meet Leonardo.

Our koala has a name now. Leonardo is EduFinder's AI. It is the one you talk to inside your account, a patient mentor on the student side and a practical colleague on the educator side. It asks before it tells, says plainly when your account does not show something, and never pretends to be a person, a teacher, a counselor, or a parent. The name is a small nod to a famous keeper of notebooks, and Leonardo keeps one too, with each student or parent who talks with it in private: every line in that notebook is dated and in plain sight, and its owner can edit or delete it, so next year starts where this one ended. Each account's Leonardo reads only what that account already shows, so a teacher's, a counselor's, or a parent's never sees a student's notebook.

Koalas know something about pacing: they put real energy into what matters, then rest without guilt so they can keep going. That balance of effort and genuine rest is the spirit we want EduFinder to carry.

As Bertrand Russell wrote, "Leisure is essential to civilization." Work hard on the decision in front of you, then step back and let your best ideas arrive. You will spot our little koala around the site as a quiet reminder to do both.

Our Story So Far

New, and Dated in Public.

EduFinder is new. Its founder's work with students is not, and everything EduFinder has shipped is on the record, dated.

  1. Jiin Baek (Ryan) starts tutoring students for the SAT, AP, and IB.

  2. Advising families on US admissions begins.

  3. The first EduFinder services go live, with a free three-question SAT demo and a full sample of every service. Read the announcement.

  4. The Rubric! Studio opens to all teachers. Read the announcement.

  5. School counselors get a hub of their own. Read the announcement.

  6. The Pro Membership launches, one plan for every kind of account. Read the announcement.

  7. Leonardo gets a new look, and every account starts with a free first run of every tool. Read the announcement.

Who It Is For

For Students and the People behind Them.

Big decisions in education are rarely made alone. A student picks a path, but parents, siblings, mentors, teachers, and friends all help carry it.

EduFinder is built for that whole circle: the student choosing a path, the parents and mentors helping carry it, and the teachers guiding the class. We try to make every tool useful whether you are the one studying, the one paying tuition, the one cheering from the sidelines, or the one grading the work.

The Path

Eight Services, Ready to Use Today.

Four services form one student path, in the order you first meet them from ninth grade to senior year:

  • The Roster! Board finds the schools worth chasing, then carries one profile from a dated chance read through the full college list, every application, and essay coaching that never writes a word for you.
  • The Resolve! Planner builds a counselor-ready AP or IB plan you can defend.
  • The Pursuit! Atlas builds your application identity, not a to-do list.
  • The Aid! Playbook maps which aid forms each college needs and the costly mistakes to avoid.

Alongside that path sits the Test Bank, our library of full-length exam practice. The SAT! Series is open now, with practice that feels like the real Digital SAT and an explanation for every question; the ACT, AP, and IB are being written.

Three more are built for the classroom: The Rubric! Studio for AI-assisted grading, The Syllabus! Planner for AI-resistant curricula, and The Letter! Desk for grounded recommendation letters. Each tool gives a concrete output, not just advice, and we keep improving them around what students, families, and teachers need most.

Start Here

Start Wherever You Are on the Path.

Whether you are choosing your first classes in ninth grade or filing aid forms in twelfth, the student home walks the whole path step by step, and your dashboard names your next move at every stop. Teachers have a home of their own: plan the course, grade the work, and write the letters, in that order.

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