Ten schools. One family. One word.
Your student picks the ten schools they actually want, from anywhere in the country. The family weighs in, everyone ranks them, and together you narrow it down to one, with the real price of every school, every deadline on your phone, and the questions to ask when you visit.
Your student picks ten. The family narrows it to one.
A parent opens the room and sends the student their own link. Grandparents or a coach can be invited too. Everybody works on the same ten schools, and nothing is decided for the student.
Your student picks ten
They search any four year college in the country and pick the ten they actually want. Ten at most, so every new school means naming the one it replaces. Up to three more can wait on deck.
Their list, not one handed to them.The family weighs in
Parents propose schools with a reason, and the student takes them, puts them on deck, or says why not. Everyone puts the ten in their own order, and the schools the family disagrees on are named out loud.
Only the student decides what is on it.Narrow it to one
Plan the cuts: six before the early deadlines, three when the letters are in, one by May 1. Everybody sets their dealbreakers and votes keep or cut. The app names what is on the bubble, and why.
Every cut, with the reason written down.Everything about ten schools, in one place, with receipts.
The ten, and on deck
The student's list, each person's own order side by side, and up to three more waiting on deck: kept close, never ranked, one swap from coming back up.
A page for every school
What it would actually cost, its dates, the questions to ask on the tour and in the aid office with what you heard, the family's notes, and what it is like to be there.
A calendar on your phone
Every deadline, open house, visit and planned cut in one list. Subscribe once from an iPhone or Google Calendar, and anything the family adds shows up there by itself.
The money, for real
Sticker, merit, the aid your family actually qualifies for, state programs and outside scholarships matched by rule. Run a school's own net price calculator and its answer replaces the guess everywhere.
Games that decide something
Blind picks with the names hidden, a bracket, the five you would apply to, and guessing your student's top three. Then the app shows where the games and your own order disagree.
Visit mode
The phone on campus: a score out of ten before anybody talks, a note, and the questions worth asking, ticked with what they said. It all lands on the school's page for the family.
Every number carries its source.
Federal data from IPEDS and the College Scorecard, each school's own pages, and nothing invented. Four labels, on every line.
Read on the school's page or in the federal file, with the link.
Derived by a stated rule from facts, or a school's own calculator run on your numbers.
A published program with a condition, applied only when your family clearly meets it.
Not known yet. Shown as a question, never filled in with a guess.
WTW? College started as one family's research room for one student in Massachusetts, built through a full application season. It is now open to any family, with the same rules: the student chooses, the money is real, and every claim shows its work.
One season, one price. Start free.
- Your student's ten, from any four year college in the country, plus three on deck
- A page for every school: the money, the dates, what to ask, notes and visit mode
- One calendar the whole family subscribes to on their phones
- The cuts, the dealbreakers, the games, and scholarships matched to your family
- Unlimited family members: a parent opens the room, the student and others get their own links
- A morning email with what is new and what is due
- Your data stays yours: export it any time, nothing sold, nothing about your student sent anywhere but this site
Start the free week
The short answers.
Who is it for?
A family with a high school junior or senior choosing four year colleges. Any major, public or private, and any four year college in the country can be on the ten. The deepest research, with checked deadlines, merit rules and state aid, covers New England, New York, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania; everywhere else starts from the federal record and the school's own pages.
What does the student actually do?
They pick the ten, and they are the only one who can put a school on it or take one off. The family proposes; the student decides. They put the ten in their own order, play the games, and on a visit give the school a score out of ten before anybody talks about it. The parents see all of it. Nobody can edit anyone else's words.
Why ten?
Because a list that can always grow never gets shorter. With a hard cap, every new school means naming the one it replaces, and that trade is the narrowing. Up to three more can wait on deck, and one swap brings a school back up.
Where do the numbers come from?
Federal data from IPEDS and the College Scorecard for every school, each school's own admissions and cost pages, and published state aid rules with their sources. A school's own net price calculator, run on your numbers, outranks the estimate. Each line is labeled Fact, Estimate, Rule or Open. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.
Is this a college counselor?
No. It is your family's own research room. It organizes the facts, prices, dates and outside money, and gives the student a real voice. It does not write essays or promise admission.
What happens after the seven days?
Nothing, unless a parent chooses to start the season from inside the room. There is no card on file to charge. If you do not continue, the room closes and your data stays exportable.
What about privacy?
One family per room. Nothing is sold. Nothing about your student is sent to any outside service other than the schools' own public pages the room reads for you. Sign in is by emailed link, no passwords to keep. The calendar link your phone subscribes to shows the family's dates and nothing else.
Tell us what is broken, missing or wrong.
A school fact that does not match the school's page, a deadline we have wrong, a scholarship we should know about, a bug, an idea. Every report goes to a person and into the fix list. Facts that check out get corrected for every family.