Colleges quietly report how much merit aid they give to families who don't qualify for need-based help — it's in their Common Data Set filings, and it varies wildly between otherwise similar schools. Counseled turned 310 schools' official filings into data your own Claude can use: which schools are financial locks, which become affordable with realistic merit, and which are full-price no matter what anyone tells you.
Add the Counseled connector to the Claude account you already have. Your family's conversations and finances stay in your own AI, not ours.
Claude interviews you — student stats, what you'll actually pay — and runs the Counseled method over the data: locks, conditional targets, merit lotteries, and honest long shots.
Your list becomes a live page the whole family shares — prices vs. budget, a map, deadlines, to-dos, and a journal. You edit it, your Claude edits it, everyone sees it.
A 1520-SAT student's family assumed the strong-merit schools were the famous ones. The filings said otherwise: at one top engineering school every single freshman without financial need got merit aid averaging $36k — while a similarly ranked school gave merit to 2% of them. One of those belongs on the list; the sticker prices won't tell you which.
$39/year or $3.99/month per family — the live tracker, the connector, the data, and updates. Your Claude subscription is separate (free Claude works too, for the web tracker). Cancel anytime: your tracker stays readable and exportable forever. Get started →