Every family deserves expert guidance and tools for post-secondary planning.

From first questions to final decisions, CGN helps families stay on track and in control.

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Applying to college can be A LOT…

“What should my teen be doing, and when?” “How do we avoid costly mistakes?” “How do I support without taking over?”
The good news: you don’t have to figure it all out on your own!

Join a community of parents and students

New CGN users start off with 14 days of our Premium Membership, CGN Complete, including:

Personalized roadmap & checklists

Create your own roadmap based on your interests and goals, with interactive checklists that break down what to do, when to do it, why it matters, and how to do it right.

Eva, your on-call AI Advisor

Trained on guidance from over 400 experts. Get answers and use built-in tools to:

  • Explore college and career options
  • Build your college list
  • Brainstorm and refine your college essay
  • Prepare for interviews

Attend exclusive Office Hours

Brennan Barnard, CGN’s director of college counseling, will answer all your questions live in these regular Q&A sessions on Zoom. Brennan is a nationally respected expert in college admissions, a regular Forbes contributor, Co-author of The Truth about College Admission (John Hopkins University Press), and the college admissions advisor to the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Bring your questions, get expert guidance, and then navigate with clarity.

That’s what CGN membership is all about.

Resources you can trust

Access our ever-expanding collection of videos and PDFs capturing the advice of over 350 of the nation’s top experts (yes, humans!) in college counseling, admissions, financial aid, and career exploration.

Stay on track with timely reminders

Never miss a deadline. Stay organized with proactive, grade-specific reminders, designed to keep families on track every step of the way.

Regular Live, monthly programming

Get expert guidance and answers to all your questions in real time.

FAQs

To take full advantage of College Guidance Network (CGN) and all of its success tools requires a paid membership, and we certainly recommend that option for families who are serious about college and career planning.

But we’ve made a limited version of our Eva AI Advisor available as a free mobile app through the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can create new content based on patterns it learns from existing data. ChatGPT, created by Openai, is a popular AI chatbot that is trained on the massive data set of publicly available content on the Web. This includes websites, blogs, books and other sources.

CGN’s Eva is a specialty chatbot that is trained on CGN’s data set: carefully curated advice and guidance from the nation’s top experts–not just data from the open Internet. Eva puts the best available information into the hands of families. And the effect is better outcomes for students on their college and career journeys.

Our experts are experienced college advisors, admissions deans, financial aid directors, school counselors, career experts, CEOs, non-profit leaders, authors, journalists, and others.

Until now access to expert guidance in college planning was almost exclusively the privilege of wealthy families who could afford private schools and high-priced college admission consultants. CGN has leveled the playing field with an Experts for Everyone, All in One Place® model, because every family deserves access to affordable guidance from trusted sources.

The college and career landscape is rapidly evolving. Changes to FAFSA, testing policies, admissions and career trends happen in real time.

It’s difficult to keep up. So CGN does that work for you, bringing you the experts who can break down the latest developments in a live, interactive format.

Office Hours are exclusive live sessions, hosted by CGN’s director of college counseling, Brennan Barnard. Families ask questions and receive guidance from a real college admissions expert who understands what it’s like to go through the college application process.

CGN empowers every family to better support their student through the college and career planning process.

Each family gets a personalized, step-by-step checklist based on their student’s interests and goals, informed by the most up-to-date information and timely guidance from leading experts. Timely reminders ensure that you never miss a key date or required to-do. And CGN’s Eva is there 24/7 to answer all your questions right away.

We built CGN from the ground up to comply with the privacy and security requirements of schools and districts. We do not sell your data or use personally identifiable information to train our models. You can find our up-to-date and comprehensive policy documentation on our privacy page: https://www.collegeguidancenetwork.com/privacy.

Yes, College Guidance Network (CGN) is a proud member of the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC). This membership reflects our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of data privacy and security for all the students, families, and educators using our platform. We ensure that our practices align with the stringent requirements set by the SDPC to protect your data and privacy.

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