The Rosetta coin — the stone in its shards

The coin's reverse — a pennant reading ALL STUDENTS IN

Start with a school or a career

Pick as many as you like, then take them through to the workspace to compare them.

Type a school or a job title.

One decree, cut three ways. Referenced sources, a counselor's wisdom, a family's decision — the Counselor reads the same stone three times so the meaning survives the translation.

Ask the Counselor Your Dorm Room The Union

What do you want to know?

Each one answered from the federal filing behind it.

See which careers are rising See which colleges are rising See when a degree pays for itself See what aid you would actually get See which schools open doors to other schools See what a school spends on its athletes See what a private school actually is See a public school beside its district and its county Find college inside and after prison See why families choose, from the families See a county's adults: literacy, education, poverty Find free, in-person employment help near you See a university abroad, and whether your aid follows

The workspace tools

Each opens the workspace on that tool, with whatever you picked above bound to it.

CompareCost, earnings and outcomes for any schools or careers, side by side Life successWhere graduates actually land, with the uncertainty stated School directoryColleges, trade schools, private and K-12 — seven federal listings Personality quizBig Five questions, matched to real occupations by O*NET AdmissionsWhat a college actually considers, early decision and waitlist odds, and what its graduates earn ten years out FuturesTen thousand futures for one school — how likely the degree pays off, and by how much MatchYour list, banded safety / target / reach — can you get in, what it costs you, what it pays for your major How much does my salary buy here?Earnings deflated by where a school's graduates actually work, the net price by your home state — real dollars, both ways K-12 School PyramidsWhich elementary feeds which middle feeds which high school — filed by the district or derived from federal data, and labeled which Life PlanOne report that walks the whole path — school pyramid, college, major, career, dream city — and where the money lands against that city's own middle class

Cost against earnings: Net price, median earnings and the debt-to-income ratio between them — for one school or two side by side.
Degrees against trades: Wage data and institutional outcomes in the same answer, so a four-year degree and an apprenticeship can be compared on the same terms.
Sourced, or labelled: Every number is tied to the dataset it came from. Estimates are marked as estimates, and your own figures are attributed back to you.