The clearest way to plan all four years.

It still works — the roadmap just compresses. College Captain plans against the quarters you have left rather than the ones you don't, and it's honest about which gaps are no longer worth chasing.

No. Counselors handle transcripts, deadlines, and school-specific logistics. College Captain is the structure between those meetings — what to work on this quarter, and why it matters for your profile.

No, and she will tell you so if you ask her. College Captain is an AI. She has a name and a memory of your profile because that is what makes her useful, not because there is someone there — nobody reads your conversations as they happen. What she is, what she is not, and exactly what happens if a conversation turns serious is written out in full on our Safety page.

No. It makes sure you have something worth writing about, then helps you find the through-line across four years. The words stay yours — and admissions readers can tell.

That's expected. The tasks in each quarter are fixed for your track and grade — that's what makes them trustworthy — but where you're pointed inside them isn't. (One exception, and College Captain says so on the Tasks screen when it applies: a handful of optional stretch tasks are held back if you told College Captain you have very little time. Change that answer on your profile and they come back.) Log what actually happened at your check-in and the counselor consults you about it: which commitment to adjust, what's still worth chasing, what to focus on next quarter. You can skip a task that doesn't fit, or switch track from your profile. College Captain never quietly rewrites your plan or drops an activity for you.

All four years, on both plans. Every year's theme, every quarter and what it's for, and how many tasks each holds — that's the Roadmap tab and it is identical whether you pay or not. Task titles open for the quarter you're in and the one after it, on both plans, and paying does not open a quarter sooner. Premium buys the counselor's help on this quarter's harder tasks, not earlier access.

About ten minutes: your grade, the track you're leaning toward, your current courses, your activities, and roughly how many hours a week you spend on each. Your grade and track decide which tasks are on your roadmap; the rest is what the counselor and your Positioning Score work from.

It's a single number from 40 to 100 describing how strong your profile is right now, relative to your grade and track — not a task-completion bar. It's recalculated once a week, and it only moves when something in your profile actually changes. Expectations rise with each grade, so scores are always compared within a grade level.

Yes — that's the normal case. The first thing we ask when you sign up is your birth month and year. If you're 16 or 17, you agree to the terms yourself; a parent or guardian is optional, and you can add one any time. If you're under 16, a parent or guardian needs to confirm your account: you add their email from Settings once you're in, and you can use College Captain while that's pending. If nobody has confirmed after 30 days, the AI chat pauses until they do — your roadmap, score and tools keep working — and an account still unconfirmed after 90 days is closed and its data deleted — never before day 90, and never without an email at least a week ahead that tells you the date. That's required whether or not you ever pay for anything. If you live in Louisiana, the parent step applies until you're 18. If you're already 18, you agree to the terms yourself and there's no parent step.

Your account becomes yours. College Captain counts you as 18 from the first day of the month after your 18th birthday — we only ask for a month and year, so it can be up to a few weeks after the day itself. From then your parent or guardian no longer sees your score or progress and can't pause your chat, and the next time you sign in we ask you to agree to the terms yourself; the chat waits until you do. Everything you added before 18 stays, and you can delete any of it from Settings. If a parent pays for Premium, it carries on until they cancel it.

Access continues through the end of the period you've already paid for, then your account goes back to the free tier. Nothing is deleted — your roadmap progress, score history and chat all stay exactly as they were, and resubscribing picks up where you left off. The one exception is a free account nobody uses for a whole year: we close those, but only after emailing a warning at least a week ahead with the date, and signing in before then keeps everything. If you'd rather erase everything now, account deletion is a separate, immediate action in Settings.