CollegeHound Plus is here
The digital binder just got smarter.
CollegeHound keeps grades, activities, essays, colleges, scholarships, and deadlines organized in one shared family workspace. CollegeHound Plus adds Scout AI to help your family understand what matters, what's missing, and what to do next.
The Binder is free forever. For a limited time, the first 500 families get CollegeHound Plus free through May 2027.
Get CollegeHound Plus Free
Through May 2027
Full access to Scout AI, scholarship search, and personalized college-planning guidance through graduation season.
Use code at checkout
No credit card required. The CollegeHound Binder is free forever.
How Plus actually works
Meet Scout. A conversation, not a chatbot.
Scout is the AI assistant inside CollegeHound Plus. You tell Scout about your student — grades, interests, family situation, target schools. Every question you ask sharpens what Scout knows about your family, specifically.
Scout remembers across four years.
Not just the conversation. Not just the session. The whole journey — 9th grade through decision day.
Scout learns your family, specifically.
Every input makes the next suggestion more accurate — for your student, not a generic student. The longer you use it, the more valuable it becomes.
Your information stays yours.
Not used to train public AI models. Not shared with other families. Private by design.
Scout helps answer the questions families keep asking.
Instead of Googling, guessing, or waiting for a counselor meeting.
- What should my student do next?
- Are we missing any deadlines?
- Which scholarships are worth looking at?
- Is this college a good fit for my student?
- How can we strengthen the application before senior year?
- What should we ask the counselor?
Who is this for?
Built for both sides of the process.
For Parents
Works even if your student isn't ready yet. Gather grades, activities, and awards early so nothing's lost — your student joins when they're ready.
For Students
Keep everything in one place and get it done faster. Your grades, activities, essays, and deadlines — always where you left them.
The digital binder.
A shared workspace where your family keeps everything that matters for college — organized from 9th grade through decision day.
- Grades, activities, and testing — captured once, used everywhere.
- Essays and documents — every draft saved, nothing lost.
- College list, scholarships, and deadlines — always current, always shared.
Instead of what you're doing now.
If any of this looks familiar, you're in the right place.
Instead of
- Spreadsheets that go out of date
- Notes apps no one else can see
- Email threads and text chains
- A folder of documents nobody can find
You have
- One shared system
- Everything in one place
- Always up to date
- Visible to the whole family
How it works.
Three simple steps — built for families, not just students.
Add your student
Create a shared family workspace in minutes. Parents can set it up — your student joins when they're ready.
Talk to Scout — your binder fills itself
Tell Scout about your student — scores, activities, colleges, goals. Scout adds it to your Binder, proposes next steps, and keeps everything organized.
You stay on track — without chasing deadlines
Deadline alerts, personalized next steps, and progress the whole family can see. Nothing falls through the cracks.
Two tiers. The Binder is free forever.
The Binder is free forever — for every family, every grade. CollegeHound Plus adds Scout AI guidance for $15/month or $150/year.
The Binder
- Grades, activities, awards, and testing — organized in one place
- College list, essays, documents, and deadlines
- Parent and student views in one shared workspace
- Multi-kid overview dashboard
CollegeHound Plus
- Scout AI — guidance that knows your student
- Deadline & Requirements Watchdog
- College Fit Scoring — Reach/Target/Safety with reasoning
- Scholarship Finder (weekly fresh)
- Personalized Next Steps & Deadline Alerts
- Application Workflows with parent approval
What families and educators are saying
Trusted by families and educators.
“This is an incredible tool. It finally gives structure to everything students do before applying to college.”
Christina Winter
Educator & Parent · Lead in Literacy / Sure Start Reading
“The college journey can feel overwhelming for kids with learning challenges but CollegeHound makes it manageable.”
“Knowing where to start is often a roadblock for students with ASD, ADHD and executive function challenges. CollegeHound lessens that burden by providing a clear framework that starts as early as 9th grade, building crucial skills like planning, time management, working memory and organization over several years.
This long-term approach helps students stay on track and reach deadlines with reduced stress. Its personal assistant, Scout, is a standout feature that sets realistic goals, identifies gaps in applications, and utilizes AI capabilities to match individualized interests to schools that are the right fit for specific learning needs.
As an executive function coach who works with kids with learning differences, I would highly recommend this platform. It helps break down large tasks into smaller steps, improves the quality of applications, reduces overwhelm, and empowers students to take ownership and accountability during the college journey.”
Lindsay Strobl, MA, LSC
Executive Function Coach · Functioning Success
Trust, by design.
Built the way you'd want a tool handling your family's information to be built.
Private by design
We don't collect last names, birthdates, addresses, or SSNs. Identifiers are redacted before any AI sees your data.
Built by parents
Six application cycles across 24 years between our kids. We built what we wished we'd had.
Current, not stale
Every answer carries a freshness stamp. Our research refreshes weekly — not once, years ago when a model was trained.
What parents ask us.
The two questions we hear most — and how CollegeHound answers them.
My kid won't use it — why should I get it?
CollegeHound is built for parents to drive. Your student can join when they're ready, or not at all. Most parents of 9th and 10th graders use it as a place to capture grades, activities, and awards as they happen — so nothing has to be reconstructed from memory when senior-year applications ask for it.
We have a counselor — do we still need this?
Yes — CollegeHound is a tool for your counselor too. It keeps your student's information in one organized place your counselor can reference, which makes every counselor meeting more productive. A dedicated counselor portal is on the roadmap.
Get started today.
Everything in one place. Always up to date. The Binder is free forever.
Get Started Free