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A college counselor for all four years.

Lore helps your student figure out who they are, do the work that proves it, and turn that into their strongest application. The software does the data work, and every number links to the college’s own page. It starts free.

What a four-year counselor does

Courses, direction, deadlines, essays and the money, kept in one record from freshman year to the last award letter.

  • Grades 9–11

    One real step a month

    Ten minutes inside a real job, then one small experiment a month. Each one tests what your student thinks they’d like against real work, not a quiz.

    Shifts

    • Shift: on a hospital floor
    • Shift: on the job as a site engineer
    • Shift: crunch at a game studio

    Try a Shift

  • Seniors

    Check 3 Schools

    What 3 colleges would really cost your family, with every scholarship your student automatically qualifies for and the college’s own page as the receipt. Free, no account.

    Look up 3 colleges

  • How it works

    How a four-year counselor works

    Lore keeps your student’s whole high-school record — courses, experiments, drafts, deadlines and the money — and turns it into a plan for each year.

    See how it works

  • Free tools

    Small tools for questions families ask every year. No account, and what you type stays in this browser.

    • College-View GPA
    • Test Score Planner
    • PSAT Score Decoder
    • Scholarship Scam Checker
    • Is This Summer Program Worth It?

    Open the free tools

  • Plans

    The price is $299 a year through junior year, then $399 for senior year. Every year, we email and ask before anything renews — your card is never charged silently.

    • $100 data bounty
    • Appeal guarantee (Senior-Year Plan)
    • Privacy pledge

    See the counselor plans

  • Every supplemental essay prompt, with its source

    Free for independent counselors.

    See the prompt database

Freshman and sophomore year: find a direction while it’s cheap

Freshman and sophomore year are when direction is cheap to find and nobody’s looking for it. One small real-world experiment a month — a two-hour project, a conversation with someone who does the job, a competition — each one chosen to teach your student something true about themselves. By senior year, that’s not a list of activities. It’s a story with receipts.

ExperimentsMajors they point to

  • Map one patient’s day
  • Nursing
  • Build it, break it, fix it
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ship one tiny program
  • Computer Science
  • Sell one thing for real
  • Business Administration
  • Redesign one thing you use daily
  • Graphic Design
  • Teach one thing to one person
  • Education
  • Report one real story
  • English
  • Run a field survey
  • Biology
  • Argue both sides of a live issue
  • Political Science
  • Record one finished performance
  • Music

What parents see, and what stays your student’s

Parents see deadlines, money, and progress. Essays, drafts, and exploration stay the student’s own — never shown to parents. A counselor you’ve booked can read what you share for that checkpoint, only until it’s delivered. That’s what makes the honesty real.

Maya R. · Grade 10

Sample

Your one experiment for November

Talk to a nurse, physical therapist, or EMT

About 1 hour, free. It’s the only thing we’ll suggest this month.

Reflection

How did it leave you?

DrainedLit up

Want to do more of this?

YesMaybeNo

Saved to your map and your record. Your answers are yours: a parent sees that you reflected, never what you wrote.

Essay draft

Saved Oct 30, 9:56 PM

The coach reads your saved draft and asks you questions about it. It never writes or rewrites a sentence for you.

Your map

  • Health care & patient care

    Tested: your experiments point here

  • Engineering & building

    Showing up in what you do, not tested yet

Check 3 Schools

Colleges publish the price. Almost nobody reads it.

Enter your student’s GPA and test score, pick 3 colleges, and see every scholarship they automatically qualify for — with the college’s own website as the receipt. Free. No account.

See the real price your family would pay — with the college’s own website as the receipt. Check us before you pay us a dollar.

Have both? Enter both: an award counts whichever score meets its bar.

Many automatic awards are only for U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

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