Application Guide

Interactive tools

Calculators, planners and templates you can actually use, grouped by the stage of the application they belong to.

Planning & deadlines

ED, EA and Regular Decision dates for US universities, taken from each school’s own admissions page.

See which postgraduate programmes a given undergraduate major leads to, and what each one expects you to have studied.

Essays & activities

Prompts and exercises for finding a personal statement topic that is actually yours.

Turn your activities and honours into the format applications ask for, within the character limits.

Write and send the request, with the timing that makes a strong letter more likely.

Paying for it

Estimate your Student Aid Index and likely net cost from family income and assets. An estimate only — each university calculates its own figure.

Looking further ahead

Start from a major and see where graduates actually end up, or start from a job and work backwards.

A structured questionnaire that suggests fields worth looking into based on what you enjoy rather than what you are good at.

Compare typical earnings by field and region so the cost of a programme can be weighed against what follows it.

SSAT, SAT, ACT, AP, IB, TOEFL and IELTS are compared side by side — who each is for, how it is scored and how long it takes.

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