How we work
What you can expect from every article, guide, and data page on Solyo.
Solyo publishes guides on grade tracking, college planning, admissions, and financial aid for parents of high school students. This page explains how that content gets made, where the numbers come from, and what we do when we get something wrong.
Solyo content is written and reviewed by Olivier, Solyo's founder and a Bay Area parent of two high schoolers. We write from the perspective of parents navigating the American school system, not as admissions consultants or school officials.
We use AI tools to help research, draft, and organize content. Every published page is reviewed by a human before it goes live: claims are checked against primary sources, numbers are verified, and anything we cannot substantiate is removed. AI helps us cover more ground; it does not replace editorial judgment.
College and career data on Solyo comes from public, primary sources:
Data pages show the most recent figures available from these sources. Admission statistics and costs change every cycle, so always confirm critical numbers on the school's own site before making decisions.
We refresh data-driven pages as new source data is released and revise guides when policies change (test requirements, FAFSA rules, application deadlines). If you spot an error, tell us through our contact page and we will review and correct it.
Solyo's editorial content is not sponsored. Colleges, test prep companies, and lenders do not pay for placement or coverage, and rankings on our data pages are computed from the public sources above, not from commercial relationships.