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. The software does the data work, with the college’s own page behind every number.
Grades 9–10
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.
One real step a month
SampleTalk to someone who does it
Talk to a nurse, physical therapist, or EMT
About 1 hour, free.
Whether the day-to-day of the work, not the brochure version, pulls you in or pushes you away.
It’s the only thing we’ll suggest this month.
Find your direction, one small test at a time
SampleHealth care & patient care
Tested: your experiments point here
Computing & software
Showing up in what you do, not tested yet
Performing arts & music
Ruled out for now. A rule-out is a result: it saves you time.
A rule-out is a result.
Grade 11
Junior year: turn the record into a plan
Junior year is when the record starts to say something. Lore finds the through-line in what your student actually did, builds a college list around the majors their own work points to, and lines up the merit deadlines of the schools on that list, so they aren’t a surprise in senior fall.
Four-year record
SampleEverything your record has kept, oldest first: your drafts, reflections, check-ins, tries and activities, each linked to the one before it so the record can’t be changed without it showing. It’s yours to keep, and it stays yours if your family cancels.
TryShift: on a hospital floor9
ReflectionWhat surprised you?9
TryTalk to a nurse, physical therapist, or EMT10
Check-inCheck-in done this quarter10
TryTalk to a software developer11
DraftTyped here12
Grade 12
Senior year: the application season
Senior year runs on a living list: what each college would really cost, every requirement and deadline, and essay feedback that asks questions and never writes a sentence. In April, we read every award letter with you and draft appeal letters in your own voice.
It’s a story with receipts.
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.
Check us first
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.
When plans open
Counselor plans aren’t on sale yet. They open when our first counselor is on this page by name, with their credentials and a time you can book to talk first.