Overview
MACC (My AI College Counselor) is an AI-powered platform that centralizes the college application process into a single dashboard. It claims to pre-load each university's supplemental questions, provide essay-writing and interactive essay coaching that preserves a student's unique voice, and forecast admission chances by analyzing transcripts, test scores, and extracurriculars. The platform includes a Scholarship Discovery Engine that continuously scans for personalized scholarship opportunities and offers action-oriented guidance to improve outcomes. Collaboration features let families, school counselors, or private consultants join a shared dashboard for coordinated application management. The product emphasizes data-driven admissions analytics, writing support, and financial-aid discovery to simplify and de-risk the admissions journey.
Key Features
Admissions Forecasting
Uses academic records, test scores, and extracurricular data to estimate an applicant's chances and suggests concrete actions to improve outcomes.
Interactive Essay Coaching & Essay Writing
Step-by-step guidance, real-time feedback, and essay drafting tools intended to preserve student's voice while producing polished drafts.
Scholarship Discovery Engine
Continuously scans thousands of scholarships and surfaces personalized matches and application strategies to help fund college costs.
Centralized Application Management
Dashboard to track deadlines, supplemental questions, requirements, and submission statuses across many schools (site claims 1,200+ tracked schools).
Pre-loaded University Supplemental Questions
Platform claims to pre-load each institution's supplemental prompts so students don't have to re-enter data for multiple applications.
Collaboration and Shared Dashboard
Allows parents, school counselors, or private consultants to access and collaborate via a shared interface.
Who Can Use This Tool?
- Students:Plan and manage applications, write essays, and track admission chances with AI-driven tools.
- Parents:Collaborate on a shared dashboard to support student applications and scholarship searching.
- School Counselors:Coordinate with students and families using a unified dashboard for deadlines and application requirements.
- Private Consultants:Manage multiple clients' applications, essays, and scholarship strategies via a centralized tool.
Pricing Plans
Pricing information is not available yet.
Pros & Cons
✓ Pros
- ✓Centralized dashboard for managing applications to many schools (claims to track 1,200+ schools).
- ✓Pre-loaded supplemental questions for universities to simplify application tasks.
- ✓Interactive essay coaching and essay-writing support aimed at preserving student's voice.
- ✓Admissions forecasting/real-time admissions analysis to suggest concrete steps to improve admission chances.
- ✓Scholarship Discovery Engine to surface personalized funding opportunities.
- ✓Collaborative dashboard allows parents, school counselors, or consultants to participate.
✗ Cons
- ✗Pricing and plan details are not available (pricing page returns 404).
- ✗Key legal pages (Terms, Privacy) and many informational pages (Features, About, Contact, FAQ) returned 404 — reduces transparency and trust.
- ✗No independent reviews or public metrics found (limited external validation).
- ✗Reliance on AI-driven predictions may not capture nuances of human admissions officers and carries typical AI limitations (bias, data quality dependence).
