Built from years of guiding families through admissions and financial aid — and from listening to the questions parents debate online when they can't find real answers anywhere else.
An honest five-minute diagnostic. Sixteen dimensions across the five phases of college prep. Named gaps, ranked priorities, and a straight answer on whether you need outside help.
Start the assessment →Explore 1,000+ colleges through PCG's strategic lens — selectivity, leverage tier, cost progression by income, graduation outcomes. Build a smart application list before you commit to anything.
Launch the Atlas →Model how AI is reshaping the career value of different degree paths. Not a prediction — a way to think clearly about how much to invest in college given what's changing.
Run the simulator →Most of these tools exist because we kept seeing the same questions on Reddit, College Confidential, and Paying for College 101 — and nobody had built anything that could actually answer them for a specific family. So we did.
Interactive presentations on the topics families spend the most time researching. Self-paced. Click anything. Roughly 30–40 minutes each if you explore everything.
Ours don't. Every tool here is built around what California families actually face — Cal Grant, UC vs CSU aid logic, the OOS public surcharge, and the donut-hole income range where middle-class families get hit hardest.
For families who know what they need. Each link launches the tool directly.