AdmitRaven for Schools is a college readiness platform built around a counselor dashboard. The U.S. student-to-counselor ratio is 372 to 1, so the dashboard is designed to show a counselor who needs attention rather than requiring them to go looking. It shows each student's lesson progress and how many days behind they are, a queue of meeting requests with the times the student proposed, a queue of essay drafts tagged with the college and an AI score, inline draft review with comments and redlines, and a per-student view containing their essay analyses, quiz results, college and scholarship matches, and whether their college list is balanced across reach, target, and safety schools. It does not replace a student information system such as Naviance, Scoir, or SchooLinks — those hold transcripts and requirement tracking, while AdmitRaven holds the student's application work. Pricing for schools is $20–$100 per student per year, quoted by enrollment and by whether the school is public or private. AdmitRaven does not currently hold a FERPA, COPPA, or CIPA certification.
For counselors and schools
Your counselors can't remember 372 students. This can.
College guidance is a memory problem. Who this kid is, what story they're telling, where they're applying and why, what you said last time, which draft is stuck and on what. AdmitRaven's counselor dashboard holds all of it, for every student on the caseload, and shows you the four who need you this week.
What a counselor sees
Everything below is shipped and running on live student data today. The things that aren't built are named further down the page.
Who is behind, and on exactly what
Every student's lesson progress as a ring, the title of the lesson they're stuck on, and a days-behind count. Anyone four or more days behind surfaces in a red strip at the top of the dashboard before you've searched for anything.
Two queues instead of an inbox
Meeting requests arrive with the student's topic, their note, and the times they proposed — accept one and it's scheduled. Drafts arrive tagged with the college, the draft phase, the AI score out of ten, and what the student said they're stuck on.
Read the draft, mark it up, send it back
Open any submitted draft in the same editor the student writes in. Select a passage to leave a comment or a redline anchored to that exact text, add free notes, and return it. The AI's analysis of the same draft sits in the right-hand gutter while you work.
The whole student on one screen
Click any name for a slide-over: every essay they've had analyzed with its score and a blurb on what stands out, their quiz results, their college and scholarship matches, their streak, and their wishlist.
Essay themes you didn't have to ask for
Before students draft, they work through prep lessons that pull story ideas out of what they've been journaling. You see the themes and the story titles they landed on — so you walk into the meeting already knowing what this kid is writing about.
Whether the list is actually balanced
Each student's wishlist scored against them dimension by dimension, with every school bucketed reach, target, or safety. The shape of the list is the read: seven reaches and no safety is visible at a glance instead of in April.
Search and filter the whole caseload
Filter to needs action, behind, or on track and sort falls to most-behind-first automatically. It's built to be opened for four minutes between appointments, not studied.
An admin view above all of it
A head of school or IT lead gets school-wide numbers — active this week, falling behind, essays analyzed, focus-mode adoption — plus staff and role management, without dropping into individual students.
Why we can show you this and your current platform can't
A counselor dashboard is only as good as the data underneath it. Naviance can't show a counselor what a student's essay needs, because nobody writes their essay in Naviance.
Every platform in your building tracks the transaction — deadlines, transcripts, requirements met. None of them hold the student, because the student never does any actual work inside them. A deadline tracker knows an essay is due. It has no idea the essay is bad.
We can tell you what a draft needs because the draft is written here. We can tell you what a student's essay is really about because they found the theme here, journaling, weeks earlier. The daily lesson and the doomscroll blocker aren't retention features — engagement is upstream of insight, and they're the reason there's anything in the dashboard at all.
That's not a feature gap a competitor closes by shipping a dashboard. They'd have to first get students to do the work in their product.
We sit on top of what you already have
This is not a rip-and-replace, and we'd push back on you if you tried to make it one.
Keep your SIS
We don't hold transcripts, course requests, or requirement tracking, and we're not trying to. Naviance, Scoir, SchooLinks, PowerSchool — whatever you use for the transaction, keep using it.
We hold the student
The story, the essays, the themes, the list and why it fits, what was said last meeting, which draft is stuck. That's the part no platform in your building has, because it isn't a record — it's work in progress.
Students are already in it
The daily lesson, the journaling, the drafting, the matching — students do that on their own, on their phones, whether or not a counselor logs in. The dashboard is a read of work that's happening anyway.
What isn't built yet
You are going to ask about these on the call. Here they are before you have to.
Rostering and SSO
Today students join with a school code and a counselor's roster is scoped to their own school. Clever, ClassLink, and Google SSO are not built yet — if automated rostering is a requirement for you, it becomes part of the pilot scope.
Calendar sync
Meetings are requested, accepted, and scheduled inside AdmitRaven. Two-way Google and Outlook sync is in progress and not something you should count on at signature.
Privacy and compliance
What we don't claim
AdmitRaven does not currently hold a FERPA, COPPA, or CIPA certification, and you should not accept a vendor page that says otherwise without the paperwork. Our privacy policy states plainly that we are still working toward full COPPA alignment.
How access actually works
A counselor sees only students rostered to their own school. Roles are granted and revoked by your own school administrator, not by us. Students hold their own accounts and their own writing.
What a pilot includes
A data-processing review with your district's counsel before any student is rostered, a written record of what we store and where, and deletion on request. If your procurement office needs a specific rider, that's a conversation we expect to have.
Our full privacy policy covers what we collect and why.
How schools pay for it
Schools generally fund this from general funds or from federal equity dollars — Title I, Part A supports college and career readiness activities, and Title IV, Part A covers well-rounded educational opportunities. At this price it usually lands under the threshold that would require a board vote, which is the practical reason pilots start in the fall rather than the following July. We'll put the quote in writing in whatever form your business office needs it.
What it costs
$20–$100 per student per year
Quoted by enrollment and by whether you're public or private. We don't publish a table because a 2,400-student public high school and a 300-student independent school aren't the same deal, and pretending otherwise wastes the first call. Send us your numbers and we'll send one back in writing.
For scale: a family buying it alone pays $20 a month — $240 a year — for one student. See what families pay.
Questions administrators ask
How much does AdmitRaven cost for a school?
$20–$100 per student per year, quoted by enrollment and by whether you're a public or private school. We don't publish a table because a 2,400-student public high school and a 300-student independent school aren't the same deal. Tell us your enrollment and we'll send a number in writing.
Why is it cheaper for the school than for a family?
A family paying on their own pays $20 a month, or $240 a year, for one student. A school covering the whole building pays less per student than that — often far less — because we'd rather every student in a grade have it than a handful of families who can afford it.
Does this replace Naviance or SchooLinks?
No, and be suspicious of anyone who says it does. Those systems hold transcripts, course requests, and requirement tracking. AdmitRaven holds the student's actual application work — essays, themes, list fit, where they're stuck. Keep both.
Is the counselor dashboard actually built, or is this a roadmap?
Built and running on live student data. Progress and behind-flags, the meeting queue, the draft queue, inline draft review with comments and redlines, the per-student drawer, and the school-wide admin view all exist today. Automated rostering, SSO, and calendar sync do not — those are named on this page as roadmap on purpose.
Is AdmitRaven FERPA compliant?
We hold no FERPA, COPPA, or CIPA certification today and we won't tell you otherwise. Counselor access is scoped to a single school's roster and roles are managed by your administrator. Before any student is rostered in a pilot, we do a data-processing review with your counsel and put in writing what we store and where.
What does a pilot look like?
One grade or one counselor's caseload for a semester, so you can see whether students actually use it before anyone signs a multi-year agreement. We'd rather earn the district than win a procurement cycle.
What happens to a student's work if the school stops paying?
The student keeps their account and everything in it. They wrote it. If the school's license lapses, they lose the counselor connection, not their essays.
Start with one caseload.
One grade or one counselor for a semester. If students don't use it, you've lost a semester and no money worth arguing about — and you'll know, which is more than most pilots give you.