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Answer a few questions from Studia. Build a long list from 1,000 US colleges and keep the ones that feel right. Skip anything you do not know yet.

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Studia, your counselor

You have starred 9 schools and moved none to your short list. Want to move a few across?

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US College Scorecard
Official school data
1,000 US colleges

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Watch a list come together

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Talk to Studia. Tell her what you want in your own words. She asks a few questions, then builds your list from real school data, with her reason for each school.

How it works

Four steps, at your own pace

Is there a college already on your mind?
No college in mind yet
1
Talk it through
Studia asks a few questions, one at a time. Tap an answer or type your own. Skip what you do not know.
2
Build a long list
Open her suggestions on the map and star the ones you like. They collect in one place.
1233 days · 3 campuses
3
Visit, if you like
Want to see a campus first? Tick the ones to visit and get the trip planned, day by day.
1Northwestern
2Case Western
3Michigan
4
Keep what felt right
After the visits, move the ones you would apply to onto your short list, in your order.

Studia, your counselor

Start with a conversation

Studia asks what a counselor asks first: what you love, how you want to study, where home is. Then she suggests three different schools and tells you why each one fits what you said.

Suggestions from 1,000 US colleges with official data
Ask what a school is like, or how two compare
Likely, Match and Reach, from your own numbers

Year one it is. Where is home?

Singapore

So far: you build things, you want engineering from year one, and home is Singapore, right? Three that fit, each a different kind of place. Which one pulls you, and why?

Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana · Big, you build from the first semester

Case Western Reserve

Cleveland, Ohio · Mid-size, in a city, co-op engineering

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania · Small, a college town, small classes

Show them on the mapWhy these three?

Discover

Browse by what matters to you

Filter by major, size, setting and region, then see every match on the map. Star a school to keep it.

Majors, campus life and cost on every profile
Every match on one map
Star as you go, sort it out later

EngineeringMid-sizeNear a cityMidwestNortheast

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor · 18% admitted

On your long list

46 colleges match · 11 shown

Campus visits

Campus visits, planned in one go

Pick the schools you want to see. Get a day-by-day trip with open days, visits and the travel between them.

Built around the dates you choose
Flights, trains or driving
Notes saved on each school

Midwest trip

3 days · 3 schools

DriveTrainFlight

1
Mon 13 Apr
Northwestern
Fly to Chicago · Visit 10:00
2
Tue 14 Apr
University of Michigan
Train to Ann Arbor · Info session 13:30
3
Wed 15 Apr
Case Western Reserve
Drive to Cleveland · Visit 11:00

Your lists

From a long list to a short list

Everything you star collects in your long list. After you visit, move the ones you would really apply to onto your short list, in your own order.

A long list you can keep adding to
A short list in the order you choose
Shared with your family

Long list

Case Western
University of Rochester
Northwestern
University of Michigan
Carnegie Mellon
Purdue

Short list

your order

1Northwestern
2Case Western
3Carnegie Mellon

After the visits

A visit changes minds. Let your list change too.

Seeing a campus tells you things no website can. Move the schools you would really apply to onto your short list, and Studia notices when starred schools sit there and never move.

Studia. Your counselor

You have starred five schools and moved none of them to your short list. The short list is the one I reason about.

Northwestern
Visited in April
On short list
University of Michigan
Visited in April
Removed
Case Western Reserve
Visited in April
On short list

Short list

1Northwestern

2Case Western Reserve

What students say

From students using it.

How your list is made

Rules, reasoning, then people.

1
Rules first
Every one of the 1,000 colleges is scored against your answers by fixed rules: subjects, size, setting, budget and anything you rule out. The scoring is the same every time.
2
Then Studia reasons
A leading AI model, held to strict instructions, chooses from the schools that passed and tells you why each one fits. It can only pick checked schools, never invent one.
3
Then we check
Our team, with admissions experts, reviews real lists. What we find goes back into the rules and the instructions, so every list after it gets better.

How it compares

Why not just ask a chatbot?

Each of these helps with part of the job. Carpe Studia starts from checked facts on 1,000 US colleges and builds your list from what you tell it, with reasons you can read.

Feature	Carpe Studia	A general AI chat	AI college apps	A private counselor
Where the school facts come from	US federal data on all 1,000 colleges, plus each school's own Common Data Set where it publishes one	What it learned or finds online, and it can guess	Often the AI model's own knowledge	Their experience and research
A list built from what you want	Every school scored against your answers, then explained	Names it thinks fit	Suggestions from a chat	Yes
Your firm rules are kept	Yes	Within one chat, mostly	Varies	Yes
The price for an international student	Sticker price or after aid, and it says which	A rough estimate	Varies	Depends on the counselor
Long and short list, shared with your family	Yes	Somewhere in a chat thread	Varies	Often a spreadsheet
Campus visits planned for you	Day by day around your visit dates, with measured drive times, trains or flights	A plan in text, if you ask	Varies	Sometimes
Notices when something changes	Yes	Answers when asked	Usually answers when asked	At your next meeting
Checked by people	Our team, with admissions experts, reviews real lists, and fixes go back in	No	Rarely described	Yes
Cost	Free for a week, no card. Then $8 a month or $59 a year	Free or a monthly plan	Free to a monthly plan	Usually by the hour or package

Pricing

Start free. Stay if it helps.

Your first week is free, with no card needed. After that, one subscription covers the whole family, and the price you join at stays yours as Carpe Studia grows. Have a friend's link? Open it and your first month is free.

Monthly

After your free week. Cancel any time.

$8a month

Studia, your counselor
Every school on the map, with official data
Your long list and short list
Campus visits planned for you

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Yearly

Best value

The same, for the whole year. About $4.90 a month.

$59a year

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Save 38% on twelve months
Your lists stay yours if you stop

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FAQ

Questions parents ask

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Who is Carpe Studia for?

High-school students in grades 9 to 12, and their parents, looking at US colleges and universities. Families in the US use it to go from a long, vague search to a list they believe in. Families abroad get the same, plus help with the parts of the American system that are new to them, and prices for international students.

Do I need my grades and test scores?

Studia asks where you stand in your own school system, such as IB or A levels, and whether you will send SAT or ACT scores. That is how your list gets honest Likely, Match and Reach labels. Skip what you do not know. You never need a list of activities, and you do not need an American GPA.

I have a friend's link. What do I get?

Open the link and sign up: your first month is free instead of the usual week. Your friend gets a month added to their trial once Studia has built your first list. Members find their own link in Family settings.

Does it cover universities outside the United States?

No. The catalog covers US colleges and universities only: 1,000 profiles built on the US College Scorecard and official school sources. You can live anywhere; the schools are American.

How do I get started?

Sign up with Google, or with your email and we send you a sign-in link. There is no password to remember. Students can start on their own, or a parent sets up the family and invites them.

Where does your school data come from?

From official sources. Every one of the 1,000 colleges carries US federal data from the College Scorecard, and each school's own Common Data Set where it publishes one. This year's tuition comes from the schools' own pages for most of them.

How is this different from asking a general AI chat?

A chat answers from what it learned or finds online, and it can guess. Here, fixed rules first score every one of the 1,000 colleges against your answers. Studia then chooses only from the schools that passed and says why each one fits. Our team, with admissions experts, reviews real lists, and what we find goes back into the rules.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Your first week is free, with no card needed. After that one subscription covers the whole family.

Who is Studia?

Studia is the counselor built into Carpe Studia. She knows the catalog and your lists, suggests schools, answers questions about them and helps you plan visits. She is part of the app, not a person and not the counselor at your school.

Is my personal data shared with external data providers?

No. Student and family names are removed before anything is sent to the AI provider, and put back only in your own view. Your data is never used to train their models.

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