We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for High School Counselors and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school and departmental coverage, we've added minimum GPA enforcement, several requested features and a host of new capabilities to CK 360™, including custom groups and a new score submission visualization.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Independent Consultants and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school and departmental coverage—including University of California admission rates based on residency and honors course count—we've added minimum GPA enforcement and several optional features you've been requesting.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Students and Parents and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school and departmental coverage—including the latest University of California profiles based on academic discipline—we've added a new tag for great nursing programs and introduced minimum GPA enforcement to call out situations where your GPA may be particularly weak for a school on your list.

Hot off the press!  We've had a chance to review the preliminary Fall 2024 admissions data released recently by the University of California and we thought it would be helpful to summarize it and share our key findings.  

Overall freshman admission rates increased systemwide from 63 percent to 66 percent year-over-year, fueled by a 5.8 percent increase in acceptances. If you're an out of state or international student, pay close attention...there continues to be a window of opportunity to take advantage of favorable rates at a couple of UC campuses.

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Tired of Googling constantly for the latest application requirements? Look no further — let College Kickstart help you stay on top of your game. 

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for High School Counselors and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage, more tags and improved performance, we've enhanced our test-optional and academic rigor capabilities, added decile analysis to CK 360™ and introduced a "standalone" version of CK 360™ for counselors in need of decision support tools to better advise students.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Independent Educational Consultants and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage and more tags, we've enhanced our test-optional analysis and commentary and embedded hyperlinks into Personalized Plan PDFs.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Students and Parents and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage and more tags, we've enhanced our test-optional analysis and commentary to help you decide whether to submit test scores.

Tired of Googling constantly for the latest application requirements? Look no further — let College Kickstart help you stay on top of your game. 

Hot off the press!  We've had a chance to review the preliminary Fall 2023 admissions data released recently by the University of California and we thought it would be helpful to summarize it and share our key findings.  

Overall freshman admission rates increased systemwide from 60 percent to 63 percent year-over-year, fueled by a 2.1 percent decline in applications and 3.3 percent increase in acceptances. If you're an out of state or international student, pay close attention...there continues to be a window of opportunity to take advantage of favorable rates at a couple of UC campuses.

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We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Students and Parents and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage, more tags and MixFixer™ enhancements, we're introducing enhancements to help you navigate an increasingly test-optional world.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for Independent Educational Consultants and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage, more tags and MixFixer™ enhancements, we're introducing enhancements to help you navigate an increasingly test-optional world.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next edition of College Kickstart for High School Counselors and thought we'd give you a sneak peek.  In addition to expanded school coverage, more tags and MixFixer™ enhancements, we're introducing several capabilities for 2023 to help you navigate an increasingly test-optional world.

Tired of Googling constantly for the latest application requirements? Look no further — let College Kickstart help you stay on top of your game. 

Hot off the press!  We've had a chance to review the preliminary Fall 2022 admissions data released recently by the University of California and we thought it would be helpful to summarize it and share our key findings.  

Overall freshman admission rates fell systemwide from 65 perent to 60 percent based on a 3.5 percent increase in applications and 5.1 percent decrease in acceptances. If you're an out of state or international student, pay close attention...there continues to be a window of opportunity to take advantage of favorable rates at a couple of UC campuses.

Click on Continue Reading for the details.