AI College Planning for Schools | College Guidance Network

Support every family. Lighten your team’s load.

CGN supports your counseling department by equipping families with vital information.

Learn how CGN supports school districts across the country.

Your school works tirelessly to support every student.

With growing demands and endless questions, it’s a challenge to give each family the attention they deserve.
Parents want to be involved and helpful—but often feel unsure where to start.

More support for families,
Less pressure on counselors

Here’s how CGN helps schools expand access to quality guidance, without stretching school teams:

Empower families with a clear plan

From admissions timelines to financial aid questions, CGN gives families the tools to become better school partners and so they can support their teens with confidence.

Personalized Roadmaps for 9-12th grade, tailored to interests and goals
Checklists to keep them on track
Timely reminders so nothing falls through the cracks

Provide on-demand, expert-backed support

Families get 24/7 access to Eva, your AI Advisor trained exclusively on trusted content from 400+ college and career experts. Eva’s built-in tools help students:

Build a personalized college list
Explore job trends
Brainstorm and refine essays
Prepare for interviews
Get 24/7 expert answers to questions

Professional development for counseling teams

Counselor Bites is a monthly live program for counselors that can also be accessed on-demand. We convene counseling professionals and thought leaders to lead sessions on key topics.

Customize for your school community.

Give families the familiar, school-branded experience they’re used to.

Custom Branding: Your school’s name and logo to create a familiar, trusted experience.
School-Specific Guidance: Tailor checklist items, reminders, and key dates—like college fairs and deadlines—to your school community.
Insightful Reporting: Anonymized data on parent engagement and trending questions asked to Eva.
Seamless Integration: Easy sign-on with Google accounts and a personalized experience for every student.

**Real time sentiment reporting allows K12 educators to better serve their families**

Strengthen your existing, school counseling programs

CGN complements your district’s existing tools by engaging families directly, reducing the one-on-one burden on your staff, and expanding access to quality guidance for all.

Why schools choose CGN

By enabling districts, schools, and counselors to better support families and students through the process, counseling teams can spend more time on valuable 1-on-1 interactions with students.

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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 for the privacy and security needs of schools and districts. We do not sell your data, do not use PII to train models, and have world class security and privacy standards. 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 proud to be a 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 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.

Ready to see how CGN can support your school district?

See how easy it is to bring expert-powered guidance to every family—without adding to your staff’s workload.