Hi, I'm Studia.
Your perfect US college list, built with you in minutes. From anywhere in the world.
Are you a student or a parent?
- US College Scorecard
- Official school data
- 1,000+ US colleges
Watch a list come together
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.
Four steps, at your own pace
- Is there a college already on your mind?No college in mind yet1
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 campuses3
Visit, if you like
Want to see a campus first? Tick the ones to visit and get the trip planned, day by day.
- 1Northwestern2Case Western3Michigan4
Keep what felt right
After the visits, move the ones you would apply to onto your short list, in your order.
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
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
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
- 1Mon 13 AprNorthwesternFly to Chicago · Visit 10:00
- 2Tue 14 AprUniversity of MichiganTrain to Ann Arbor · Info session 13:30
- 3Wed 15 AprCase Western ReserveDrive to Cleveland · Visit 11:00
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
- Case Western
- University of Rochester
- Northwestern
- University of Michigan
- Carnegie Mellon
- Purdue
- 1Northwestern
- 2Case Western
- 3Carnegie Mellon
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.
You have starred five schools and moved none of them to your short list. The short list is the one I reason about.
- On short listNorthwesternVisited in April
- RemovedUniversity of MichiganVisited in April
- On short listCase Western ReserveVisited in April
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."
Rules, reasoning, then people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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 |
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.
- Studia, your counselor
- Every school on the map, with official data
- Your long list and short list
- Campus visits planned for you
Yearly
Best valueThe same, for the whole year. About $4.90 a month.
- Everything in Monthly
- Save 38% on twelve months
- Your lists stay yours if you stop
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.
Find colleges you'll love.
Start with one question for Studia. No card needed.