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Your US college list in minutes. Then your plan, every week until you apply. From anywhere in the world.
Tell me what you want from a US college: what you'd like to study, where you'd want to be, and what matters to you.
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- 1,000+ US colleges
- Official federal data
- No account needed to start
For example, for a student who wants mechanical engineering in a city, with a 1350 SAT:
- Northeastern UniversityReachBoston, Massachusetts
Co-op is built into most degrees, so you can graduate with up to 18 months of paid work. Few applicants get in, which makes it your reach.
- University of PittsburghMatchPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Swanson School of Engineering sits in the middle of the city and runs its own co-op program. A 1350 is in its usual range.
- University of CincinnatiLikelyCincinnati, Ohio
Co-op started here in 1906, and engineering students still alternate study terms with paid jobs. Most applicants are admitted.
A full list has about 20 schools like these, each with my reasons.
- US College Scorecard
- Official school data
- 1,000+ US colleges
Studia has one student. You are it.
A good counselor listens, remembers and tells you the truth. Studia does all three, every time you talk.
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She remembers what you tell her.
Your subject, where home is, the school you liked last month. She writes it down, and the next conversation starts where the last one ended. She never asks twice.
Here’s what I’m picking up…
Engineering, maybe aerospaceBoston or CaliforniaNeeds financial aid - ii.
She finds schools that fit you.
The degree you want, what you can spend, the kind of place you picture. She checks 1,000+ US colleges against all of it, keeps the ones that pass, and tells you why each one made the list.
Cal PolyMatchSan Luis Obispo, CaliforniaWhy I chose it: Aerospace engineering is a full degree, and the teaching is hands-on.
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She tells you where you stand.
She asks about your grades in your own school system, and whether you will send SAT or ACT scores. From that, every school gets an honest label.
MatchA fair chance, with real work.LikelyYou are likely to be admitted.ReachAdmits very few. Apply, but never only here.
Your list is day one. Then every week until you apply.
One place to work in each week: your plan, your practice, your activities and your dates. Studia keeps an eye on all of it.
Your plan for this week
A few steps toward each thing you are aiming for, ticked off as you go.
What you are working toward
A grade, an SAT or ACT score, an activity. See how far you are, and what reaching it would change on your list.
SAT practice
Short sets on every part of the Digital SAT, a score estimate as you go, and your weakest skill to practice next.
Your Common App activities
The Common App is the one form most US colleges accept. Write your activities in its own fields, with the 150-character limit counted for you.
Campus visits, and what you thought
Trips planned around your list. After each school, a short journal so they do not blur together.
Every date that matters
Each school's deadlines, placed in your own application year, and a count of the days to the first one.
Studia checks in when a date comes close or a target slips, and a short email every Sunday says what the week holds.
From a first sentence to your list.
No account needed to start. After her first questions she asks for your email, so your list is waiting for you.
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Tell her what you want
In your own words, or tap a suggestion. She asks a few rounds of questions after that. Skip anything you do not know yet.
Where would you actually go?
Boston or New EnglandCaliforniaPacific NorthwestAnywhere in the US - 2
Watch her build your list
Each school she looks at shows up as she works, with what she is checking. It takes a few minutes.
- Looking up the schools I am considering.
- Looking at Northeastern: in Boston, Massachusetts, the city you named.
- Looking at Cal Poly: public school in San Luis Obispo, California.
- Reading Cal Poly’s own site: scholarships
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See one of each, free
One match, one likely school and one reach from your list, each with her reason. The rest of the list waits for you.
Cal PolyMatchSan Luis Obispo, CaliforniaWhy I chose it: Aerospace engineering is a full degree, and the teaching is hands-on.
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Pay once, then plan every week
One payment opens your whole list, and the plan that takes you to the day you apply: narrow your list, practice, write your activities and plan visits.
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The hard part is not the forms.
Choosing a US college feels hard because there are so many. The number is not really the problem. Five quieter things are, and she handles each one.
i.There are 1,000+ good colleges. You know twenty.
Most students apply to the names they already know. Studia starts from what you want, so your list can hold schools you would never have found, each with a reason.
ii.An admit rate means little on its own.
The same school can be a reach for one student and likely for another. She sets every school against your own grades and scores.
iii.The sticker price is rarely your price.
Aid for international students differs from school to school. She shows the price that applies to you, and says whether it is before or after aid.
iv.Firm wishes get lost in a long search.
Your subject and your top priorities stay rules for every school she picks. Everything else only changes the order.
v.A visit changes minds.
A campus tells you things no website can. Plan the trip in one go, then move what felt right onto your short list.
Your whole search, on one map.
Every school she suggests and every one you keep, with majors, campus life and cost on each profile.
From students using it.
"I had a list of dreams and no idea how to get there. So I built something."
"I told Studia I wanted engineering near a city. She found three schools I had never heard of, and two are on my short list now."
"The map made it click. For the first time I could see where all these colleges actually are."
"My parents and I look at the same list now, so we talk about schools instead of sending each other links."
Better prepared for the steps that cost more.
Applying to US colleges costs far more than this, and those costs stay. One payment now helps each of them land on the right schools.
- Application fees$75 to $100 a school at selective colleges
Spend them on schools that fit you, with a balanced list of matches, likely schools and reaches.
- The SATA test fee, and more for every retake
Practice every part first, with a score estimate, so you sit it when you are ready.
- Campus visitsTravel and hotels, more from abroad
Visit the schools that matter, on a trip planned around your list.
- A college counselor, if you hire one$150 to $300 an hour
Arrive with your list, dates and activities in order, so the hours go to what only they can do.
- Four years of collegeThe biggest cost of all
Cost and aid for every school on your list, from official sources, before you apply.
Carpe Studia. $149 once, before all of it
See your list free. Pay once for the whole road.
Start free: build your list and see one match, one likely school and one reach. After that, one payment per student opens the rest, for the whole road to college: it lasts until the end of August of their graduation year. No subscription, nothing to cancel. A brother or sister who starts later is paid for separately. Have a friend's link? Open it and you get $20 off.
Free
Build your list and take a first look.
- Studia builds your list with you
- One match, one likely school and one reach, with her reasons
- No card needed
Carpe Studia
Paid once. Nothing renews.
- Your whole list, with Studia's reasons
- Your plan every week, toward your own targets
- Studia on any SAT question you miss
- Your Common App activities, ready to copy
- Campus visits, and a journal per school
- Until the end of August of your graduation year
What you tell her stays with your family.
Names are removed before anything goes to the AI provider, and put back only in your view.
What you tell her is never used to train the AI provider’s models.
Each person in the family has their own. A counselor you invite never reads it.
The family sees the same lists and the same plan.
From Settings. It goes at once, for good.
Every figure says where it comes from, and which year.
Who is Carpe Studia for?
High-school students in grades 9 to 12, and their parents, applying to US colleges and universities. It covers the whole road: finding the right schools, then a plan for every week until you apply. Families abroad get the same, plus help with the parts of the American system that are new to them, and prices for international students.
What do I get for the payment?
Everything, for one student, until the end of August of their graduation year: your whole list with Studia's reasons, a weekly plan toward your own targets, your Common App activities, campus visits with a journal per school, every deadline in your own application year, and Studia whenever you need her. One payment, no subscription, nothing to cancel.
What happens after my list is built?
Your list is day one. After that you work toward what you are aiming for, a grade, an SAT score or an activity, with a few steps each week. You practice for the SAT, write your activities in the Common App's format, plan campus visits and keep a journal of each one, and see every deadline in your own application year. Studia checks in when something needs you, and a short email comes every Sunday.
How does the SAT practice work?
Short sets on every skill of the Digital SAT, in Reading and Writing and in Math, with why each answer is right or wrong. After a few questions in a section you get an estimated score range, and the skill you are weakest at comes up as the one to practice next. You can review what you missed and time yourself at test pace. It is free with an account; with the paid plan you can also ask Studia to walk you through a question. The questions are our own; it is practice, not an official score. The free SAT score check needs no account at all.
Take the free SAT score checkWhat is the Common App, and how do you help with it?
The Common App is the one application form most US colleges accept. Its activities section takes up to ten activities, each with a role, an organization and a description of at most 150 characters. Carpe Studia keeps your activities in exactly those fields, counts the characters for you, and lets you copy the list in your own order.
Is there a free trial?
There is no trial. Building your list is free, and so is a first look at it: one match, one likely school and one reach, with Studia's reasons. SAT practice is free with an account. The whole list, your weekly plan and the rest of the app are one payment of $149 per student, with nothing to cancel.
How do I get started?
Tell Studia what you want, right on this page. No account is needed to start: after her first questions she asks for your email and sends you a sign-in link, or you use Google. There is no password to remember. Students can start on their own, or a parent starts and invites them.
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 Match, Likely and Reach labels, and how your targets show what reaching them would change. Skip what you do not know. You do not need an American GPA, and activities are optional.
Who is Studia?
Studia is the counselor built into Carpe Studia. She knows the catalog, your lists and your plan. She suggests schools, answers questions about them, helps you plan visits and checks in on your targets. She is part of the app, not a person and not the counselor at your school.
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, and Studia chooses only from the schools that passed. After that, your plan, practice, activities and dates live in one place that remembers them week after week.
Why 1,000+ colleges, and not every college in the US?
Because we chose depth over breadth. The US has thousands of colleges. We cover the 1,000+ that students are most likely to want to go to, and for each one we go to the school's own website for its current figures, on top of the federal data. So every school in Carpe Studia has information you can rely on, instead of a thin entry for every college in the country.
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.
I have a friend's link. What do I get?
Open the link and sign up: you get $20 off when you pay. Your friend gets $20 back once you have paid. Members find their own link in Family settings.
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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