v0.1.88
July 2, 2026A completely redesigned homepage: calmer, faster, easier to read, and much clearer about what Solyo does with your school emails.
A new home for Solyo
- Redesigned from top to bottom. A new display typeface, one consistent brand orange, larger and more readable text on every device, and a live product preview that comes to life as you scroll.
- Built for readability. Type sizes, contrast, and touch targets are tuned for busy parents reading on a phone — and the whole page respects reduced-motion settings.
Clearer feature names, and a new one
- Email to Tasks. Permission slips, picture day forms, SAT registrations: the to-dos buried in school emails now have their own showcase, sorted into School, College Admission, and Family — with every task showing the email it came from.
- Email to Calendar and Admission Insights. Features are now named for what they actually do, so a first-time visitor understands Solyo in one scroll.
v0.1.87
June 22, 2026Campus safety on every school, a much deeper look at cost, debt, class size and outcomes, and a counselor that knows it all.
Campus safety on every school page
- See how safe a campus is, in real numbers. Each school now shows official Campus Safety (Clery Act) data — violent crime, sexual assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, hate crimes, and total criminal offenses — for the latest reported year.
- Counts and rates, so size doesn’t mislead. Every figure is shown both as a raw count and as a rate per 1,000 students, alongside a 3-year trend, so a large university and a small college can be compared fairly.
- Ask the counselor directly. You can now ask Solyo "is this school safe?" or "how does the crime rate at X compare to Y?" and get the actual Clery numbers in the answer — for any school, or for your whole saved list at once.
A much deeper look at cost, aid and debt
- Financial aid detail beyond the sticker price. School pages now show the average percent of financial need met, the share of students whose need is fully met, average merit awards for students without financial need, average need-based scholarships, and the percent of graduates who leave with loans.
- A fuller debt and repayment picture. Median debt is now joined by the full range (10th to 90th percentile), the monthly payment, the loan repayment rate, and the loan default rate.
- A one-click Net Price Calculator. Where a school publishes one, a "Net Price Calculator" button now sits right on the Cost & Financial Aid card so you can estimate your real cost in a couple of clicks.
More to know about every school
- Class size, finally. New Class Size and Campus Life sections show the percent of classes under 20, under 30, and 100+, plus how many students live on campus, the out-of-state share, and Greek-life participation.
- Clearer graduation and outcomes. Graduation now splits into 4-year and 6-year rates, with retention, transfer-out rate, earnings at 6, 8 and 10 years, and the share of graduates out-earning a typical high-school graduate.
- Richer school profile. Pages now also show campus setting (urban, suburban, town, rural), religious affiliation, a fuller student-demographics breakdown, transfer-admission details, and high-school course requirements — with empty fields automatically hidden so each page stays clean.
- Accurate "most popular majors." The graduates-per-major figures behind a school’s top fields of study now use the most reliable source, so program sizes and rankings are correct.
A smarter AI Counselor
- It now knows graduates per major. Ask "how many people graduate in Computer Science at UCLA?" or "what are the biggest majors at this school?" and the counselor answers from official data, with median earnings five years out.
- It draws on the new affordability and campus-life data too. Questions about percent of need met, merit aid, classes under 20, on-campus housing, and Greek life now have real answers in chat.
Richer college guides
- The per-school college guides now include a campus safety section ("Is this school safe?") and a popular-majors breakdown, written for parents and built so search engines and AI assistants can answer questions about each school directly.
v0.1.86
June 13, 2026More accurate, up-to-date college admissions data, and a fixed "Find Colleges Near Me."
More accurate admissions data
- Top schools now show their latest Common Data Set. We refreshed the official admissions data — acceptance rate, test scores, GPA profile, and what each school values in an application — to the 2025–2026 cycle for many of the most-searched colleges, including Yale, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Emory, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Bowdoin.
- Schools that previously showed no admissions detail now do. Several well-known liberal arts colleges — Kenyon, Lafayette, Occidental, Sarah Lawrence, Bates, Smith, Harvey Mudd, and others — were missing their admissions profile entirely. They now display a full Common Data Set.
- Acceptance and yield rates display correctly everywhere. We fixed a data issue that could make some top schools’ acceptance rates and the selectivity meter read incorrectly. Every school now shows the right number.
- What each school values is shown for more colleges. The "What Matters in Admissions" breakdown — rigor of coursework, GPA, essays, test scores, and more — is now populated for the refreshed schools.
"Find Colleges Near Me" works again
- The Find Colleges Near Me button is fixed. It was returning almost no results and, on some browsers, was blocked entirely. Nearby search now reliably finds colleges around your location.
v0.1.85
June 12, 2026Solyo Chat experience layer, voice parity, chat history, smarter college search, and a redesigned calendar tile.
A smarter, more capable AI Counselor
- Solyo Chat now answers from your own data and acts on it. The assistant reasons across your calendar, emails, tasks, grades, school list, and college/career knowledge in one conversation — and can make changes for you (add or complete tasks, edit your profile, merge contacts) with a quick confirmation, plus an Undo for the last action.
- Rich answer cards. Where it used to reply in plain text, the chat now shows clean visual cards — your school list by tier, side-by-side college comparisons, calendar events, deadline checklists, admission-chance bars, and grade summaries.
- It speaks first when something matters. The welcome screen surfaces proactive suggestions (an upcoming deadline, a new grade, a task worth doing). Delivery stays in-product — a notification bell plus optional web push — never extra email.
- Long-term memory. The counselor remembers useful context about your family across sessions, and you can ask it to forget anything.
Voice that matches the chat
- Talking to Solyo now uses the same brain as typing: voice conversations are saved to your history, carry the same answer cards and follow-up suggestions, confirm low-risk actions out loud, and let you continue a voice conversation in chat without losing the thread.
Chat history
- A new history drawer (mobile-first, right side) lets you browse, search, rename, and delete past conversations. Each one gets an auto-generated title and preview.
Better college search by major
- Searching for a major now also surfaces schools that are strong in that field overall — not just ones with an exact program-code match — so strong fits (including majors offered only at the graduate level) stop falling through the cracks.
- The Programs tab now has degree-level filters (certificate, associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and more) that line up with your search, so you can focus on the credential you actually care about.
Calendar improvements
- Calendar event answers now show only the event you asked about. Ask "when is my flight to SFO?" and you get that one flight as a card — not a wall of unrelated events.
- Tap a calendar card to jump straight to it in your calendar, with that day selected and the event opened.
- The chat calendar card now matches the dashboard’s event styling (colored date pill, clean layout) for a consistent look.
- Fixes to Calendar and GPA / School Settings behavior.
More complete school data
- Expanded Common Data Set coverage: high-school unit requirements, transfer-admission details, and student-life sections now feed the counselor’s answers.