v0.2.49
October 28, 2026SAT and ACT policies are checked against each college's own admissions site for this application cycle, and the chances calculator can email your list with one tap from its header.
Test policies you can trust
- Checked for this cycle. The SAT/ACT policy of 672 colleges was confirmed on each college's own admissions site: 520 test-optional, 98 test-required and 54 test-blind. NYU, for example, is test-optional, not test-required.
- The same answer everywhere. College pages, admissions reports, College Search, compare, your Selection, deadlines and the counselor all read the same verified policy, in place of the older Common Data Set answer.
- Changes ahead. Where a college has announced a new policy (Princeton, Columbia and Notre Dame require tests from 2027-28), the college page says so, with a link to the source.
The chances calculator
- New, Save and Email me this list sit together in the list header; the email form opens right under it.
- A clearer email. The subject names the profile the list was built for, and under the list a short card explains what Solyo does, with a way to reach us at contact@solyo.ai.
- The high school side. The Next step box adds a High school dashboard tile: with the Gmail integration, the updates your teen's school sends land next to the college plan.
College Search
- Search modes read as buttons. The modes you have not picked now have an orange outline.
v0.2.48
October 26, 2026The scholarship catalog grows from 335 to 536 verified awards with a pipeline that reads each sponsor's own page, the Scholarships page answers the quick match in one line, and award pages get a back button and a plain Save.
Scholarships: 201 more awards, every one read from the sponsor
- 536 active awards, up from 335. The October completeness pass adds national merit, service, STEM, arts, military, first-generation and state programs that were missing, each with the amount, the cycle and the application link confirmed on the sponsor's own site. "All awards" now lists every one of them.
- A pipeline that keeps them true. Each award is read from the sponsor's page by two independent readers that must quote the page to change a fact; a record is published only when every check passes, re-checked as its deadline approaches, and the day's changes arrive in one recap email. Pages behind bot walls, in PDFs or rendered by scripts are read too.
- Umbrella programs and projected dates. Programs with several awards are reviewed by hand before they go live, and a date the sponsor has not published yet reads as projected from last year's close, never as confirmed.
- Answers for the searches that are not awards. Gates Millennium, CalKIDS and K-12 school-choice "scholarships" get FAQ pages that say what they are and point to the real program.
- The counselor knows the new awards. Six knowledge briefs cover the added programs in durable prose, with live dates and amounts taken from the catalog at answer time. The Illinois MAP and Commitment notes say that eligibility for undocumented students is suspended pending new state law.
The Scholarships page
- One line answers the quick match. "Your teen could be eligible for 170 out of 536 scholarships", with Create Account and Update search side by side under it.
- The sample list is in the first paint. It no longer waits for the sign-in check or the catalog, the first tab is named Sample, and the catalog loads only when All awards opens.
- Odds a parent can compare. Sample cards say "About 4% win" or "Under 1% win"; signed in, the exact rate is unchanged. Rolling, first-come and college-set awards say so instead of showing a closing date.
- One card language. The sample list, the matched feed and All awards share the same card, pills and facts line, so the three never look like different products.
Award pages and the chances calculator
- Back to scholarships. Each award page opens with a back button that returns you to where you were on the Scholarships page, in place of the breadcrumb.
- Save this scholarship. The orange action on every award page uses the same word as the Save pill on the list. The reminder date still appears after you open the official site.
- Save this list. The chances calculator's header button says what it does: the whole list lands in your Selection after you create the account.
v0.2.47
October 24, 2026The Scholarships page is rebuilt around the awards worth your teen's time, saved deadlines land on the calendar, College Search gains a Build My List tab that scores your own student's record, and every page lines up the same way on phone, tablet and desktop.
Scholarships, rebuilt
- The scholarships worth your teen's time, with the real odds. The page opens on a senior's sample feed: each award in one plain sentence (who it is for, how much, when it closes, the published odds), so a parent can judge it in a glance.
- Three taps to your own matches. Grade, state and GPA, in the same form as College Search, and the list narrows to the awards your teen can actually enter.
- Saved scholarships become deadlines. An award you save or start shows up on the calendar and in the phone feed with its closing date, next to the school events. Nothing is added for awards you have not chosen.
- 143 records re-verified against the sponsor. Dates the sponsor has not published yet now read as "projected from the annual cycle" instead of a confirmed date; amounts, links and eligibility corrected where the sponsor's page says otherwise.
College Search: Build My List
- A third tab, Build My List. The chances calculator now lives inside College Search next to By Major and By College.
- Signed in, it scores your student's real record. The form is filled from what Solyo already knows and every college is read the way it reads applicants: the University of California on 10th and 11th grade only, others on the full transcript, with courses and activities included. Change a number to try a what-if; the record and the Selection tab are never changed by it.
- Add to Selection asks which student. A family with two teens picks whose list the college goes to; each college is filed under its band from the stored record, not the what-if on screen.
Demos and layout
- Demo Calendar, Demo Emails, Demo Grades and the Demo School Report run on the real app screens with a sample family, with a "How it works" tile at the bottom instead of a banner at the top.
- One container, one navigation. Every page shares the same width and gutters on phone, tablet and desktop, the header holds one row of links (Colleges, Scholarships, Counselor, Planning, Calendar, Grades, Emails), and page titles read the same on every tile.
One place for the whole journey
- Colleges, money and aid, a counselor and a four-year plan. A row under the header on the free tools shows the four parts of Solyo and opens each one, so families can see everything Solyo covers, not only the page they landed on.
- A preview, clearly labeled. Free results say what they were built from ("a 3.8 GPA, a 1450 SAT and New Jersey") and list what an account adds for your own teen: Early Decision chances at each college, merit aid, matched scholarships, a counselor that knows your list, and every deadline on one plan.
- Create Account. Every sign-up prompt now uses the same words and the same list of what you get.
The chances calculator
- Your list, in your words. A built list is titled for your student ("Your list for a 3.8 GPA student in New Jersey studying business").
- Early Decision and merit at a glance. Colleges with an early round or published merit aid show it on their tile; tap to see the dates or the average merit award from the college's Common Data Set.
- Email me this list. Get one email with your list and each college's deadlines. No reminders.
Scholarships
- Scholarships closing this fall, first. Families arriving from our scholarship ad see Jack Kent Cooke, Elks Most Valuable Student, National Honor Society and Burger King Scholars at the top, with the published odds where they exist.
- Your quick match carries over. The state, grade and GPA from the quick match fill your student's profile when you create an account.
- Merit aid at your saved colleges is now open on the For you tab instead of folded away.
Fixes
- Sign-up from college search works inside Facebook and Instagram. The "Match?" and "Save" prompts now open the sign-up page that handles those apps' browsers.
- Scholarship rows fit on phones. Long award amounts no longer push the row wider than the screen.
- The grade of a student created from the calculator can be set right after sign-up.
v0.2.46
October 22, 2026A full college list in one click, rankings on every single-college answer, out-of-state options when the home state runs short, and deeper data on the colleges families ask about most.
The chances calculator
- Get My Full College List. The list button says what it does: one click returns a full list of safeties, targets and reaches for the profile. After a single-college answer, the next step reads "What colleges should your student apply to?"
- Rankings on a single-college answer. Checking one college now shows its U.S. News rank and, with a major chosen, its U.S. News rank in that major (Boston College: #31 overall, #7 in Finance), next to the acceptance rate and tuition.
- Out-of-state options when the home state runs short. An in-state list whose home state has too few colleges in a band now adds colleges from other states, labelled "Out of state" with any tuition agreement the family qualifies for (WUE, MSEP, a resident-rate rule).
- Fewer odd picks. Built lists no longer propose all-cadet military colleges or the adult, online and extension campuses that federal data files as separate colleges. A GPA under 1.0 is caught as a typo ("3.9, not 0.39") instead of building a list.
- Clearer college names. The college search shows the short name families use ("Penn State") above the official one, so campuses with long official names can be told apart.
Deeper data on the colleges families type
- 51 more college pages. Every college families typed into the calculator now has a profile page with its admissions numbers, costs and peers.
- In-state and out-of-state admit rates for 240 colleges, up from 132, read from each college's Common Data Set.
- New and refreshed counselor knowledge for 17 of the most-asked colleges, among them Purdue, Texas A&M, UT Austin, UNC, Georgia Tech, Wisconsin, Georgetown, Boston College, Stanford, Michigan and Penn, so the AI College Counselor answers from current facts.
Signing up from social apps
- Sign-up that works inside Facebook and Instagram. Google sign-in is blocked inside those apps' built-in browsers, so there the sign-up and sign-in pages show only the email form, which works.
v0.2.45
October 21, 2026College lists now lead with the strongest programs in your major, Safety schools read as safeties, and Solyo can tell a returning visitor from a new one.
Better lists, on the free calculator and in the app
- The best college first in every band. With a major chosen, each band leads with the U.S. News program ranking for that major, then Solyo's own standing of the program, then the college's overall ranking. Without a major, the overall ranking orders the band. The list is drawn from ranked colleges across every level of selectivity, so a strong file still meets long shots and a modest one still meets ranked safeties.
- Safety means safety. A college admitting 60% or more where the score sits above its top quarter, or 70% or more where the whole file sits inside its range, is now a Safety. Indiana, Alabama and Oswego read that way for the students who typed them.
- Weighted GPA, estimated when it is not on file. Where a college reports its averages on a weighted scale and only an unweighted GPA was entered, the AP and honors count supplies the estimate instead of reading a strong student as below the range.
- Major-specific admit rates apply. The 0.5% direct-entry nursing rate, the 21% engineering rate, the 7% business-school rate: the intended major now reaches the engine, and a shared score far under a selective college's bottom quarter reads as a long shot whatever the campus rate says.
- Honest flags. A typed college with no program in the chosen major carries a "No program" chip. Service academies and work colleges are never proposed unasked. The Connecticut assured-admission rule no longer catches the Coast Guard Academy.
Returning visitors
- A visit is a person. Every page view records the page, the time, the device's address, the browser type and a random cookie id, deleted after 180 days, so Solyo can tell returning visitors from new ones and which visits lead to an account. The privacy policy says so.
- Admin Center reads. The Calculator, Focus, Paid and Audience screens show first visits against returning ones, visitors who came back without an account, and addresses shared with an existing account.
v0.2.44
October 19, 2026Build a college list from scratch in one pass, reach every free tool from inside the app, and let AP exam scores and IB courses count in the chances.
Build my list
- A list from nothing. On an empty Selection the "Check my list" button reads "Build my list" and opens a short wizard with the same questions as the public chances calculator: GPA, test score, AP, IB or honors courses, activities, school type and college location. Answers already on the student's profile are filled in, changes are written back, and the list is built from the resulting bands.
- Saved lists, side by side. A switcher in the Selection tab moves between "My selection" and every saved list, each described by its own criteria.
- Transcript on file. When a transcript has been applied, the list buttons carry a check mark, because every list scores on the bands computed from it.
Resources
- Every free tool, one page. A new Resources entry in the left menu lists the GPA and AP score calculators, the AP exam schedule, College search, "Is my GPA good?", the chances calculator, the admission timeline, the scholarship directory and the career explorer, plus the Explore and Learn pages and a Contact us tile.
AP exam scores and IB in the chances
- AP exam scores on the profile. The Academic Profile records each AP exam with its subject, score and year. Scores of 4 and 5 add a small, capped bonus to course rigor; lower or missing scores never count against the student. At the few schools that accept AP exams in place of the SAT or ACT (WashU, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Rochester), three qualifying scores are read as a test score and the explanation says so.
- IB courses and the Diploma. IB HL and SL courses are recorded per year, with whether the school offers IB courses or the full Diploma. HL counts like AP, SL like honors, and a Diploma candidate is read as the most rigorous track.
- Public calculator. The rigor question now reads "AP, IB or honors courses" and offers a "Full IB Diploma candidate" box.
Also
- The college typeahead in the chances calculator understands nicknames and abbreviations (U Penn, A&M, SUNY Binghamton, UT Austin) and takes the first school when several are typed with commas.
- Transcript upload reads honors and AP from course names when the transcript prints no level code.
- The Dashboard button in the site header shows white text again for signed-in visitors.
v0.2.43
October 19, 2026Upload a transcript and every school year is filled in at once: GPA by year, courses and credits, AP and honors counts, and the school's own GPA scale.
Transcript upload
- One upload fills the profile. Add the transcript (PDF or a photo) from the dashboard, the academic profile, or the College Search page. Two independent readers go through it, the numbers are checked against the GPAs printed on the transcript, and a review table shows every year before anything is saved.
- Every year, not just the current one. Freshman and sophomore years that the Gmail integration never saw get their GPA, courses, credits and course levels, so the college list and the chances use the whole record.
- The school's GPA scale, detected. Solyo works out which rule reproduces the printed GPAs (plus/minus steps or not, honors and AP bonuses, credit weighting) and offers to use it for the student.
- Open it any time. The uploaded file stays on the academic profile with Open and Replace.
Also
- A save from the chances calculator now records which schools it carried, so a list that goes missing can be restored.
v0.2.42
October 18, 2026The college list saved from the chances calculator now survives the first page load of a brand-new account.
Fix
- Saved lists on a new account. Creating an account from "Save my list, free" sets up the account and reloads the page once; the save used to start before that reload and lose most of the list. It now waits for the account to exist, so every college lands in the Selection, and a save that is interrupted is retried with a fresh page.
v0.2.41
October 17, 2026Every free tool now keeps what you did when you create an account, the chances calculator turns your answers into your student's profile, and the paid plan is described by what it does for admission, with the Gmail integration as the part that keeps it current.
Free tools that keep your work
- Save it, then sign up. The chances calculator, the deadlines table, the CSS Profile list, the GPA ladder, the AP exam schedule, the best-colleges tables and every college page now carry what you picked into your new account: the colleges land in your Selection, sorted into Safety, Target and Reach, the deadlines you ticked are tracked, and AP exams go on your calendar with a reminder the day before.
- Your calculator answers become your student. Creating an account from the chances calculator sets up the student's profile from the GPA, scores and state you entered, so the Selection shows the same bands you just saw. Rename the student and set the grade in School Settings.
- The sign-up page knows why you came. It names what you are saving, returns you to it, and says plainly: 7 days free, no card needed, a reminder before the trial ends, and your student's information is never sold or shared.
- Chances are described as a band. A college reads Safety, Target, Reach or Unlikely with the share of applicants that band typically admits, never a single personal percentage.
In the app
- This year, on the dashboard and in the Selection. The next steps for your student's grade, from the admission plan, with the Gmail integration offered as the step that keeps everything current rather than the first thing to do.
- Selection Review and Build open during the trial. Trial families can now use the list review and the list builder.
- Trial emails and a weekly summary. The emails during the trial lead with your student's list, next steps and deadlines. A Sunday summary of the week (new grades, GPA movement, school dates, college deadlines, one step for this year) is ready and will start once it has been tested.
- Annual first, pause instead of cancel. The subscription page leads with the yearly plan, says what stops when a trial ends, and offers to pause a subscription instead of cancelling it.
- The AI counselor and the school chat without an account answer five questions a day per visitor, then invite you to create a free account. Counselor buttons now open sign-up, not the homepage.
- Planner demo tabs render for visitors. Applications, Deadlines and A-G show sample data instead of an error before you sign in.
Pricing and homepage
- Plans described by what they do. Personal and Family list the four-year plan, the counselor that knows your student, Selection Review and Build and every deadline first, with the yearly price shown first. The Free plan no longer claims a limit on admission scores that never existed.
- One promise under the headline: every grade, every deadline, one plan to admission.
For the Solyo team
- Every sign-up button reports itself, including pop-up sign-ups, pricing cards, blog and footer links, and the asks that appear only after a result.
- Paid screen: came back after day one and Gmail connected within 7 days, per first-touch account. Sign-ins now refresh the last sign-in time.
- Through-graduation prepay fake door on the calculator results and the subscription page; interest is collected in prepay_interest.
v0.2.40
October 16, 2026College search opens on the major search, the homepage FAQ names every sender the Gmail integration organizes, and paid acquisition is measured end to end in the Admin Center.
College search and homepage
- College search opens by major. The search page now starts on the major search, with the college search one tap away.
- The homepage FAQ names every sender. The answer to "PowerSchool already emails me grades" now says what else lands in the same inbox: Canvas, the school, each teacher and the soccer team, and that Solyo organizes all of it in real time, files grades by class and keeps the GPA current.
For the Solyo team
- Paid acquisition measured end to end. Ad clicks now land in their own Paid channel on every Admin Center screen (medium cpc or paid; the January and March boosts had been filed under Other), every new account keeps the visit that brought it, Meta hears about each registration and first payment through the Conversions API, and a new Paid screen puts spend per campaign and ad next to the sessions, accounts and payers those clicks produced, against the kill line from the October evaluation.
v0.2.39
October 15, 2026The CSS Profile list shows each college's early deadline and leads to the deadlines table and the chances calculator; two GPA calculators open with the answer families search for.
Financial aid and GPA tools
- CSS Profile schools, ready for the early round. The list now opens with the two pages a family filing this fall needs next, the application deadlines table and the chances calculator, and a new Early deadline column shows each college's earliest Early Decision or Early Action date from its Common Data Set: 115 of the 169 colleges publish one, and 67 close it on November 1. The CSS Profile is normally due the same day.
- Two GPA calculators answer first. The middle school calculator opens by saying that colleges never see these grades but that they set 9th-grade placement, and the calculator without credits opens by saying when a simple average is the right one.
For the Solyo team
- The IndexNow release card closes itself. It waits two days after a release note before asking where the submission is (notes are dated the day they are written, deploys follow), reads the worker ledger first, and closes once a submission follows the release. Rules can now opt their warning cards into that auto-close.
v0.2.38
October 11, 2026Check my list is a new report with a builder written as a sentence, decisions found in your inbox confirm with one tap, admission chances use in-state and program rates, and the free chances calculator reads strong students right again.
Check my list (paid plan)
- Closed by default, one tap to open. A "Check my list" button sits beside "Add new school" on the My selection tab, with a count of the recommendations worth a tap. The audit opens as one report with three tabs: Review, Build a list, and Lists.
- Review reads at a glance. Four gauges show the school distribution against the counselor range. Recommendations are a checklist with a plain title, one line of detail and exactly one action: re-file every school by its admission chance after one confirmation, trim the list with a drop you can undo for five seconds, or jump to the schools whose Early Action round is still open. The list follows, grouped by admission chance, with "File as Target" on the row.
- Build a list is a sentence. "Best list for Finance with a focus on investment banking, public or private, in California, any size, no round preference, weighing balanced." Every word is a pill; menus open as a sheet on the phone. Results are cards with the reason as the body and Add on a tap. Saved lists are cards with their sentence and counts.
- Read on every device. Larger type throughout, one bucket at a time on tablets and phones, 40-pixel tap targets, visible keyboard focus, and a skeleton while the review loads.
Decisions from your inbox
- Decision notices confirm with one tap. The Gmail integration spots a school's decision notice (the "status update" that never says the outcome), the letters that do, and tells the look-alikes apart: events, scholarship and housing notices, newsletters. A Decisions card at the bottom of the My selection page asks what the portal showed; the confirmed decision replaces the admission chance on the tile, counts an admit as a Safety in the review, and drops a denied school from the counts and from any list Solyo builds.
- Share decisions on your terms. After a confirmation, one question, unticked: count this family's decisions in Solyo's anonymous admit rates. Only the school, the round and the outcome; never names, grades, scores or emails. "Not now" waits a month, and the choice is reversible from the card. A pooled count only ever appears once a school holds five decisions.
- A nudge when a notice waits. During decision season, one email per notice after two days, never more than one every three days, with the school, the round and the date and never the outcome. Off until the Solyo team turns it on.
Admission chances
- The in-state and out-of-state rate, from the school's own numbers. The Common Data Set's residency table now feeds the rate that applies at 72 public universities: North Carolina at Chapel Hill admits 38% of in-state applicants and 6.6% from out of state, Texas at Austin 38% and 10%, Georgia Tech 30% and 10%. The card shows the counts behind the rate.
- Program rates where the campus rate misleads. Forty-three programs at thirteen universities carry their own published rate: UCLA by school (nursing 0.5%, computer science 7%), Washington's direct-to-major computer science, Illinois by program, Michigan engineering and Ross, McCombs, Cal Poly's six colleges, and more.
- Every saved list now reads public universities as public. A stored-list bug compared the ownership label to a number, so no residency rate or public-only rule had ever applied on the tiles. Fixed.
- The free chances calculator reads strong students right. A school admitting 95% or more is a Safety for any eligible applicant; a 4.0 at a school where most enrolled students report a 4.0 reads as the top of the class, not below it; and a published minimum or a required test explains an Unlikely in words.
Blog and free tools
- Admissions posts point to the chances calculator. Posts tagged admissions or college list now offer the free college chances calculator first, and senior-year and early-decision posts offer the application deadlines page. The Forbes New Ivies guide gained a chances prompt under each of its two school tables and in its next steps, and the Ivy League test-optional guide's title fits the search result tag again.
- GPA pages say the letter grade up front. "Is a 3.4 GPA Good? A B+." in the title and the description, so a search for a GPA in letter-grade terms sees the answer before the click.
For the Solyo team
- Honest referring domains. The Links screen, the Overview gates and the link-pace card now exclude domains whose anchors sell links ("Premium Tiered Link Building for solyo.ai"), 25 of the 44 in the index on 11 October. The gates read the Authority Plan targets: 35 honest domains by 31 December and 60 by 31 March.
- Crawler counts are verified bots only. The AI Search screen counts a bot only when Cloudflare verifies it. Impostors borrowing Googlebot or GPTBot names to probe for secrets now sit in an Unverified column instead of inflating error rates to 97%.
- The site restarts itself. The two app processes now restart within three seconds after a crash, and each runs under a memory cap, so a memory spike is a blip rather than the outage of 11 October.
- Decision capture controls. A daily inbox scan and the nudge email are scheduled from one admin route, disabled until enabled in test mode; a calibration gate for the chances calculator passes 45 of 45 again.
v0.2.37
October 11, 2026A stability fix for the first visit after Match Score V4: the match recompute reads only what it scores, and one recompute runs at a time.
Stability
- The Match Score recompute is light again. The first signed-in visit after 0.2.36 moves every stored band to Match Score V4. That recompute read the whole verified Common Data Set, source text included, once per open tab and per student, and the server ran out of memory for seven minutes on 11 October. It now reads the school ids and the fields it scores, identical requests share one run, and runs go one at a time.
For the Solyo team
- CDS endpoints no longer return source text. The list endpoint leaves out the raw and Docling markdown, the text sample and the extraction report, and batch-get leaves out the same extraction fields. The admin CDS screens read a school's source through get-school, which is unchanged.
- Profile saves use the same id read. Saving a student profile recomputes bands through one distinct-id query instead of the full list.
v0.2.36
October 11, 2026Match Score V4 reads every school the way a counselor does, and the Selection tab reviews your list and builds alternates for the major, the career goal, the type of school and the states you choose.
Admission chances (Match Score V4)
- One honest band per school. Safety, Target, Reach or Unlikely now comes from published rules (open admission, published minimums, test requirements, assured admission, and no Safety or Target under a 15% admit rate) and from where your student sits against the enrolled middle 50, using the rate that applies to the round, the residency and the major.
- The Admission tab explains itself in words. The verdict card shows the rate that applies and why, where the GPA and the SAT sit against the enrolled middle 50, what would move the band, and the four category reads. No points and no score anywhere.
- Every surface agrees. The saved-school pills, the free chances calculator and the counselor chat all use the same read.
Selection review and builder (paid plan)
- Your list, read the way a counselor would. The Selection tab shows the counts against the recommended shape (2 to 3 safeties, 3 to 5 targets, 2 to 3 reaches, up to 2 dream schools) and the findings to fix: no financial safety, folders that disagree with the band, two Early Decisions, Early Action not taken, a major the school does not offer, tests required with no score, and the CSS Profile schools. Every fix is one tap; nothing moves without it.
- Build alternates from your filters. Major, career goal, public or private, states, size and early round give the best schools in every bucket with one reason line each: the rate that applies, the program and the career evidence, the price for your family, and your preferences. Lists are saved and named; build as many as you like.
- Priced the way your state prices it. In-state and out-of-state net price at your income band, the Western Undergraduate Exchange at 150% of in-state tuition, Minnesota and South Dakota reciprocity, the DC tuition grant, and automatic out-of-state scholarships where a school publishes the grid.
- Career goals under the major. Investment banking, cybersecurity, medicine, nursing and 45 more, each read against public evidence: ABET accreditation, NSA cyber centers, medical-school feeder counts, NCLEX pass rates, economics department rank and founder counts. When no dataset covers a goal, the card says so.
- Offers already in your inbox count. A Direct Admissions email or an acceptance letter found by the Gmail integration files that school as a Safety.
Counselor chat
- Two new questions it answers: "is our list balanced" and "build a list for finance in California, public only", with the same words as the Selection tab.
Homepage
- The College selection chapter now says that Solyo reviews the whole list and proposes alternates.
For the Solyo team
- Request-indexing email ranks by real demand. The daily list orders school pages by national U.S. News rank and the number of applicants in the school's Common Data Set, so large, sought-after universities come before small regional colleges.
- Stored match bands recompute after this release. The profile hash carries the engine version, so every list moves from the old categories to Match Score V4 on the next visit.
- Selection Review email. A weekly email for paid families with a high finding, off by default, with an admin settings route to enable it in test mode first.
v0.2.35
October 9, 2026College pages open with the admission numbers that matter and lead to the chances calculator and College Search; a timeless airline reminder no longer duplicates a flight at 12:00 AM.
College pages
- Admission at a glance. Every public college page now opens with the applicant funnel from the school's Common Data Set: applicants, admitted, enrolled and yield, with a selectivity meter and the test and early-round policies as chips.
- Two clear next steps. A button under the numbers opens the chances calculator with the school already added, and a hand-off after the GPA section opens the school in College Search to compare it and save it to your list.
- All four factor tiers. The admission-factor grid shows what the school rates Very Important, Important, Considered and Not Considered, in the same colours as the signed-in school tab.
- More of the money picture. The cost table adds the share of need met, the average need-based grant, the average merit award for families without need, how many graduates borrow and their average debt. Campus life gains class-size figures.
- The name you search for. Pages call the school by its common short name where it stands on its own (UC Davis, UCLA, Notre Dame) and state the official name once.
College Search
- Tabs read the school's short name. A school opened from a college page or from your list is labelled "UC Davis", not a name guessed from its web address.
Calendar
- One flight, one event. An airline reminder that names the trip date and confirmation number but no departure time ("Just confirming your 10/08 trip", "Got a hotel?") used to add a second copy of the flight at 12:00 AM when the booked departure sits late in the day. The reminder now merges into the booked leg, and the real departure time stays.
v0.2.34
October 8, 2026Trial emails now ask for your feedback, and the Solyo team gets a daily list of pages to hand to Google.
Trial emails
- Tell us what you need. Every trial email now closes with a short ask: if a feature is missing, something is confusing, or you wish Solyo did one more thing, reply and say so. Replies reach the founder, and feature requests go onto the roadmap.
For the Solyo team
- A daily request-indexing list. Each morning the Admin Center emails the next ten pages Google holds a stale verdict for, ordered by how many families saved the school and its U.S. News rank, with the Search Console steps. Pages in the email are marked as requested so the next day moves on. On or off, recipients and batch size live in the growth settings.
v0.2.33
October 7, 2026The course page in the School Report, rebuilt in the report's own design, with the same upcoming and recent feeds the dashboard shows. The weighted GPA calculator page explains the 4.5, 5.0 and 6.0 scales and the UC capped rule.
School Report
- Course page rebuilt. A course opens on a title card with four tiles (grade, period, average score, graded count), the assignment list and trend beside an Upcoming and Recent rail on desktop, and the two feeds first on a phone. Rows without a published score are counted in the heading but no longer listed.
- One definition of upcoming and recent. "Due in the next seven days" and "posted in the last seven days" come from one shared source for the dashboard and the course page, so a rule change lands in both at once. A standing notice the school re-sends every day appears once, at its latest posting.
- Dashboard notice text no longer cut short. A notification whose text contained a colon lost everything after it on the dashboard; it is shown whole.
GPA calculator
- Weighted GPA, scale by scale. The weighted GPA calculator page now sets out the 4.5, 5.0 and 6.0 weighting scales in one table, walks one semester of six courses through each of them (the same grades read 3.67, 3.83 or 3.92), and explains the University of California capped weighted GPA. Two new questions in its FAQ cover the 4.5 versus 5.0 difference and how UC computes its figure.
Search engines
- Retired image links answered for good. The per-career and per-college preview-image links removed in March now answer "gone" instead of "not found", so Google stops retrying about a hundred of them.
- Award-page buttons no longer send crawlers to sign-up. The apply and reminder buttons on scholarship pages tell search engines not to follow them; Google had queued one sign-up URL per award.
- Calculator pages carry a real date. The six GPA calculator pages now list the date of their last change in the sitemap instead of a February date typed by hand, which had told Google not to come back.
Admin Center
- No more bare page after a deploy. The Admin Center is now sent with a no-store cache header, so a browser can no longer reuse the previous release's page and point at stylesheets that are gone.
v0.2.32
October 5, 2026A fix to the new course matching: a teacher notice that names no child and matches no known course is now set aside as "Unassigned" as intended, instead of being filed under the closest course.
School Report
- "Unassigned" now triggers on the course answer alone. The first live Canvas notice of the day matched none of the known courses, but because the email named no child the previous rule still fell back to the old path. The child is now taken from the best available signal and the notice is parked rather than guessed.
- For the Solyo team. The Usage page's user-management tab has a button that copies the production account's data onto the local-development account in one click.
- The school's record wins on teachers. A course's teacher used to be fixed by whichever email created the course, even when PowerSchool later named someone else. A grade report that names a different person now corrects it, and an unassigned notice joins the one course of that name once it exists. Existing records were repaired the same way: one teacher corrected, one phantom course turned back into eight unassigned notices.
Admin Center
- Numbers audited and corrected. A pass over every screen against the GA4 and Search Console APIs found the stored data exact and several readings wrong. Fixed: "US non-brand clicks" now counts every click outside the visible brand queries (Google hides rare queries, which is where non-brand clicks live; the old tile read 0 against 13), the mobile human proxy stops at page two (deeper impressions are scrapers paginating), Bing weekly numbers no longer include a week from before the period, the Bing index line compares against the live sitemap, the referring-domain delta covers the period rather than five weeks, and Pages, Content and Trends end on the last day Search Console published.
- Quieter cards. Decay ignores pages whose impressions sit past position 30 and needs five prior clicks before calling a click drop; index drift needs a few URLs and 5% of a silo, not one; quoted-phrase and site: queries are left out of gates and striking-distance lists.
- Nightly jobs run to completion. Agenda cancelled the index sweep at ten minutes every night (half the queue inspected, no record written); the growth jobs now carry explicit lock lifetimes, which also covers Sunday's twenty-minute refresh.
- Signed-in use. The Audience screen opens with signed-in sessions per day, the app screens people use, and how they come back (most return direct, from a bookmark or an email link). Counted from visits to screens only an account can open, so the history goes back to May 2025; the site now also sends the account id to GA4, so its own signed-in flag fills from this release on.
- What first-time visitors do next. Under the landing tiles, a table of the pages new visitors land on, how many went on to a second page and which one; every landing page's hover card shows the same for all visitors.
v0.2.31
October 5, 2026School emails now land on the right child and the right course. The decision model that sorts your mail also decides which student and which existing course a grade or teacher notice belongs to, and says so when it belongs to none of them.
School Report
- The right course, every time it is knowable. Which child and which course a school email is about is now decided by the same model that classifies your mail, choosing only among the courses Solyo already knows for your family, whatever platform sent the email. In a month of real mail it matched every case that could be checked.
- No more phantom courses. When a notice matches none of the known courses, it is kept on the student under "Unassigned" on the School Report instead of being filed under the closest name or creating a course with the wrong teacher. It joins the course automatically once a grade email creates it.
- New families are unaffected. Courses are still created from the first grade emails exactly as before; the question is only asked once there are courses to choose from.
- Tonight's school notices show up tonight. A Canvas announcement that arrived in the evening was dated by the server's clock, a day ahead of yours, so the School Report's "last 7 days" list hid it until midnight. Dates now follow your time zone, and the list tolerates the older rows.
v0.2.30
October 5, 2026A small follow-up to the new email pipeline: student inboxes stop paying for questions about emails they will set aside, and the classification log says exactly why each one was set aside.
Under the hood
- Cheaper student inboxes. When the first round of classification shows an email is not school, college or activities mail, the second round of questions is skipped; nothing would have read the answers.
- Honest logs. An email set aside from a student inbox is now recorded with its real category and the engine that decided it, instead of a label from a filter that no longer exists.
- For the Solyo team. The ingestion pulse script can measure from an exact time, such as the minute a release went live.
v0.2.29
October 5, 2026A deployment fix. The 0.2.28 build could not start on the server because one library was missing from its image; this release adds it, so everything announced in 0.2.28 arrives now.
Under the hood
- The decision-model library now ships with the server image. The 0.2.28 build listed it in a dependency file the image does not read, so the backend stopped at startup and the previous version was put back. Nothing else changed.
- Safer startup. If that library is ever absent again, email sorting falls back to the previous language-model path instead of taking the backend down.
v0.2.28
October 4, 2026Email sorting got faster and more careful. A dedicated decision model now reads each email in about a tenth of a second and says how sure it is; the language model steps in only when it is not.
Under the hood
- A decision model sorts your mail. Each email is classified by a model built to pick from a fixed list of answers with a confidence score, rather than to write text. Low-confidence answers go to the previous classifier, so nothing is decided on a guess.
- Fewer wasted steps. Grade extraction, contact triage and calendar checks only run when the classifier is confident they apply, and bulk senders whose mail has settled into a pattern are sorted without a model call at all.
- More honest dates. The event date on an email is now picked from the dates actually written in it, never inferred.
- Two quiet bugs fixed. Calendar invitations from marketing lists are now gated the way they were meant to be, and sent mail can no longer slip into grade processing.
- For the Solyo team. The classification screen in the Admin Center shows coverage, escalations, confidence, errors and cost per email, and a new rule raises a card when any of those drift.
- Mail is never lost to a slow step. Each batch of incoming mail is now stored the moment it arrives and processed by a background worker with retries, so one slow model call can no longer make the same emails reprocess for hours. The Admin Center shows the queue and lets the team requeue a failed batch.
- One summary call per sync instead of one per email, and the pipeline hands each saved email to the calendar and grades steps directly instead of re-reading it, which removes a whole class of "field not loaded" bugs.
- Promotional mail nobody will read is no longer indexed for the counselor, so answers draw on the mail that matters. School and college mail, anything personal, and anything in the daily summary are always indexed.
- A student inbox now keeps activities mail. Club, team and lesson emails (practice schedules, game reminders, sign-ups) used to be discarded before any model looked at them. They are now classified like any other email and kept, so their dates and to-dos reach the family calendar.
v0.2.27
October 4, 2026The Admin Center is complete: every screen of the plan is live for the Solyo team, from index coverage and backlinks to AI-search visibility and a weekly list of what to fix next. Nothing changes in the app families use.
Under the hood
- Pages, Technical, Audience and Content. Every sitemap URL is inspected on a rolling schedule so the team sees what Google and Bing have indexed, which pages are decaying, and how each content area performs.
- Links, Competitors and Trends. A weekly refresh pulls backlinks, competitor rankings and topic interest through a paid data API with a spend cap, and lists the sites most worth asking for a link.
- Opportunities and AI Search. Sixteen rules turn the data into a ranked to-do list, a weekly check records which AI assistants cite Solyo, and the Monday email opens with a short note whose numbers are verified against the data.
- Signed-out visits to the Admin Center now see a short notice with a sign-in link instead of bouncing to the dashboard.
- A leaner sitemap for search engines. Pages now report the date their content last changed rather than the date of the latest release, and career pages with no search demand stay available but ask search engines not to index them, so crawlers spend their time on the pages families look for.
- Better internal links. The GPA ladder links each of its calculators, the New Ivies guide links every school it names, and the AP and test-optional guides link the AP exam schedule and the Ivy test-optional list.
v0.2.26
October 4, 2026Admin Center, first screens: the Solyo team now reads traffic and search performance from one place, with sixteen months of history behind it. Nothing changes in the app families use.
Under the hood
- Sixteen months of history, kept. Google Analytics, Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and Cloudflare are pulled into Solyo's own database every night, so the numbers no longer disappear when the sources roll their windows.
- Human traffic first. Every headline number counts people who arrived through a search engine, an AI assistant, a link or social media, and leaves out the crawler traffic that inflates most analytics.
- A weekly summary email for the team, with the week against the week before, striking-distance queries and the gates on the roadmap.
v0.2.25
October 3, 2026Groundwork for the Admin Center: the traffic and search feeds behind it are connected and verified, with nothing changing in the app you use day to day.
Under the hood
- Five feeds, connected once. Google Analytics, Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Cloudflare and DataForSEO are now wired through one encrypted configuration, each verified with a live read-only call before it is stored.
- A six-hourly health probe re-checks every feed and records the result, so a broken connection shows up within hours rather than at the next report.
v0.2.24
October 2, 2026College Search on your phone: a cleaner school header, a redesigned admissions card, a Major filter on any search, and one clear invitation on every tab when you are not signed in.
School pages on your phone
- Two tidy rows of facts at the top. Admission rate, retention and class size sit on the first row; tuition, aid and the school's own Net Price Calculator on the second, so the cost facts stay together.
- Admission at a Glance, redesigned. Test policy and early rounds read as quiet chips with a small coloured dot: green for non-binding, orange for binding or required, blue for test-blind. The Common Data Set year shows under the title.
- Applicants, Admitted, Enrolled and Yield rate line up in four columns, with the admit rate as a small pill beside Admitted.
- One selectivity meter. A single orange ramp with a readout that names the band and the admit rate in words, so the position never relies on colour alone.
- Top Fields of Study now sits with the other program facts instead of under Analytics.
- Cost & Financial Aid keeps its title on one line on a phone, with Compare and the calculator buttons on the row beneath.
Searching by major
- A Major filter in the filter sheet. Pick any major from an A to Z list and the search runs again for the schools that offer it. On a zip code search this narrows the nearby schools to one program.
- Only schools that teach the major. With a major in play, field-adjacent and graduate-only matches drop out, and the results header reads, for example, "Nursing major near zip code 94110".
- Selective schools by default. Open-admission schools are now opt-in in the Selectivity filter, so a major or zip search is not flooded with open-enrollment results.
- Distance sits next to the student count on each result card.
If you are not signed in yet
- Each tab says what it does. Selection, Messages and Notes, and a school's Emails and Notes sub-tabs, open with one short pitch, three benefits and a Start for free button instead of a bare sign-in box.
- Exit demo in one tap. The sample-profile banner is white on orange, and its button drops the demo flag so the whole page flips back to the real view at once.
v0.2.23
September 30, 2026Scholarship pages that answer the first question first, AP exam dates you can drop into your calendar, and a GPA result that leads straight to the colleges where it fits.
Scholarship pages
- The ask comes first. Every award page now opens with a summary card: the amount, the deadline, who qualifies and what the application takes, before any of the detail.
- Remind me is the main button. Set a reminder before the deadline in one tap; if you are not signed in yet, it takes you through the free sign-up and back to the award.
- Coming back from an application? When you return from the official site, the page asks whether you applied, so your list stays accurate.
- On a desktop, the buttons stay in view while you read the rest of the page.
AP exam schedule
- Add to calendar. Every subject in the 2027 schedule has an Add to calendar link that downloads a .ics file Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook all open, set to the local start time with a reminder the day before.
- Your student's exams in one file. Tick subjects in the clash checker and download only those, or download the whole schedule at once.
From a GPA to the colleges that fit it
- The GPA calculator answers the next question. Once you have entered grades, a line under the result links to the colleges where freshmen average that GPA.
- The chances calculator does the same for an unweighted GPA, right above its results.
- Every college profile links its average GPA to the matching "Is a 3.7 GPA good?" page, so you can see which other schools admit at the same level.
- All 21 GPA pages, 2.0 to 4.0, are listed at the bottom of the GPA calculator page.
College Search
- A shorter first screen when you are not signed in. The guide under the tool folds its sections (colleges by state, questions parents ask, other free tools) to one line each; open the one you want to read.
v0.2.22
September 29, 2026A rebuilt homepage and free tools that look and work the same everywhere: one header, one footer, school logos on every list, and a chances calculator that knows your major.
A new front door
- The homepage is rebuilt around one line: from high school to college, with peace of mind. Four short chapters show the dashboard, the college list, the applications and the aid, with the same sample family throughout.
- One header and one footer on every page. The header carries a Tools menu (Grades, Selection, Admission, Financial aid) and folds to a single row while you scroll on a phone.
- A security page that states in plain words what Solyo connects to, what it never does with your data, and how to disconnect.
- 7 days free, no credit card, cancel anytime now appears under every sign-up button, and the trial email tells you what happens on day 8.
Is a 3.7 GPA good? pages
- Safety, Target, Reach and Unlikely are now full cards, each with its colour, icon and count, plus a legend at the top that jumps to any band.
- Every college row shows its logo, and the whole row opens the school in College Search. On a phone each row is two lines: the name, then GPA and admit-rate badges.
- Average merit award per college, read from each school's own Common Data Set, sits beside the admit rate on desktop.
- A byline, a verified date and a link to the methodology now sit next to the tables, not only at the bottom of the page.
College Chances Calculator
- Pick an intended major and the list only contains colleges that actually graduate students in it, with the size of each program shown, for example "Finance 160/yr".
- Results use the same band cards and rows as the GPA pages, so the two tools read as one. Tap a row to open the school; tap the heart to save it to your list.
- The GPA calculator shows all six method tiles in full on a phone, and tapping a tile opens that method's breakdown.
College Search and the counselor
- Short, familiar school names now appear in every heading of a school's detail view, not only on the cards.
- Visitors who are not signed in see a one-line prompt on any school detail to add it to their selection.
- One card per answer in the counselor. A question earns the card it asks for, and the reply no longer repeats what the card already shows.
v0.2.21
September 27, 2026A college counselor that knows your family: deeper, checked answers built around each student, plus cleaner school cards on your phone.
Answers built around your family
- The counselor knows who it is talking to. When you are signed in, every answer starts from each student's grade, GPA, courses, test scores, intended major, saved schools and upcoming deadlines, and speaks to the student by name where it matters.
- Your numbers win. If you ask "my daughter has a 3.8 and a 1450, what are her chances?", the answer uses those figures, even when a different record is on file.
- Every answer is checked before you see it. A second pass compares the draft with the data it was built on and removes anything it cannot support.
- Heads-up items you might not think to ask about: deadlines inside three weeks, schools on your list that require the CSS Profile, and what Early Decision means for comparing aid offers.
More accurate college facts
- Test policies read from each school's own Common Data Set, so a school that requires scores is no longer called test-optional.
- Deadlines land in the right year, and scholarship countdowns count calendar days in your time zone.
- New verified references: free-tuition income limits for 47 college and state programs, superscore policies at 80, and which majors admit directly at about 60 universities.
- Best colleges for a major now rank by graduate outcomes. Graduation and first-year retention count alongside earnings, debt and program size, so the list no longer just mirrors selectivity.
Cleaner school cards on your phone
- Short, familiar school names on every card instead of long official ones.
- One deadline chip per school, reading "ED/EA Nov 1" when the early rounds share a date.
- Buttons that fit. Match, Compare, Save and Learn now sit on one line on every phone width, and Delete no longer spills off the card.
v0.2.20
September 25, 2026A student is added to your family only when an email proves they exist, and the college search card loses its clutter.
No more phantom students
- A newsletter title can no longer become a student. A school newsletter or webinar announcement used to be able to add a made-up name to your family roster, and later emails would then be filed under it. A new student is now created only when an email names them in the body and carries a grade or score for them; anything else is set aside instead of guessed.
A tidier college search card
- One message count, not two. The orange count next to the envelope now stands alone; the duplicate "Messages" button is gone.
- Distance only when it matters. Searching by major no longer shows how far each school is; the distance badge returns as soon as you sort those results by distance.
- Retention sits next to admission rate, so the two outcome percentages read together, ahead of SAT and size.
v0.2.19
September 25, 2026Rankings you can compare: your college list now ranks every school on the same scale, follows your intended major, and opens a full ranking breakdown with one tap.
Rankings that follow your major
- One ranking scale per list. Your Selection tab ranks every school on the same U.S. News list, so the numbers finally compare. Schools ranked on a regional or liberal arts list are tagged REG or LAC instead of sitting next to national ranks as if they meant the same thing.
- Set an intended major and the ranks switch to it. Pick Finance in your academic profile and your list shows each school's Finance rank, with a line telling you how many of your schools U.S. News ranks for that major. Your major also appears in the page header.
- Tap any rank to see them all. A new rankings sheet shows the school's overall rank, every major and program rank it holds with yours highlighted, and what it is recognized for.
A cleaner college search
- Rank and aid badges everywhere. The Rank, Aid and Meets full need badges from search now also appear on your Selection list, school messages and school pages.
- Selection cards redesigned to match search results: actions sit next to the school name and the badges get the full width, so nothing gets squeezed.
- A new Sort panel with clear groups and plain labels like Most selective, Nearest or High to low, and each sort starts with the best schools first.
- Majors listed A to Z in the major search.
v0.2.18
September 25, 2026College search now shows U.S. News rankings, which financial aid forms each school requires, and where the merit money is, all checked against official sources.
Rankings where you need them
- U.S. News ranks for more than 1,600 colleges, both the overall rank and the program ranks (business, computer science, engineering, nursing and more). A school page separates school-wide ranks from ranks by major, and the Programs tab shows the rank next to the matching major.
- Search results show a Rank badge. Search by major and the badge shows that major's rank, not the school's overall position.
Financial aid, made searchable
- Know which aid forms each school requires. Every result says FAFSA only, FAFSA plus the CSS Profile, or no FAFSA at all, based on the College Board's official CSS Profile list. Filter by any combination.
- Find the merit money. New filters for schools that give merit aid to a meaningful share of freshmen, schools whose average merit award covers at least half of tuition, and schools with a merit scholarship covering full tuition or more (155 schools, each confirmed on the school's own website).
- Meets full need is now a badge and a filter, for schools that cover 100% of demonstrated need on average.
- Aid deadlines on school pages. Priority filing dates, deadlines and decision dates for about 300 colleges, from each school's own Common Data Set.
New guides and more accurate numbers
- Two new pages: the full list of colleges that require the CSS Profile, filterable by state, and Best Colleges for Finance, ranked by graduates' earnings, graduation rate and debt.
- More current admissions data for over 100 colleges from their newest Common Data Set, plus fees, housing and meal costs where schools publish them.
- Aid figures corrected at 30 colleges where the average need-based grant had been read from the wrong line of the school's aid table, and college pages now show one consistent tuition figure.
v0.2.17
September 21, 2026Two dozen more scholarships answer the questions applicants actually ask, verified against each administrator, and deadline countdowns no longer expire a day early.
Scholarship answers, verified at the source
- 24 more awards now carry researched question-and-answer sections, 168 answers in all, each verified against the scholarship administrator's own published rules: who qualifies, what the deadline really is, whether the award renews, and how winners are picked.
- 17 catalog records were corrected against administrator sources. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility rules that had drifted from what the administrator actually publishes (or were fiction repeated by aggregators) now match the primary source.
Deadlines that count down correctly
- Scholarship pages no longer mark a deadline as passed a day early. Public award pages treated every deadline as expired from the prior evening onward, right when deadline searches peak; they now stay open through the deadline day itself, matching the in-app tracker.
v0.2.16
September 20, 2026Scholarship pages gained a one-tap way to track a deadline, and the counselor can answer with school facts it used to hold but could not reach.
Track a scholarship deadline in one tap
- Every scholarship page now has a "Track this deadline" button next to the apply link. Signed in, it saves the award to your tracker under the right student and takes you straight there; signed out, it shows exactly what tracking gets you before asking for an account.
- Similar-award suggestions now show each award's deadline beside the amount, so you can tell at a glance which ones are still worth a look this cycle.
The counselor reaches more of what it knows
- About twenty more facts per school are now answerable in chat, including early decision admit rates, class sizes, graduation rates, typical graduate debt and required high school units. The data was already there; the counselor could not reach it. A new automated check keeps every future data field reachable or consciously excluded.
- School chips in answers now show the school's real logo. The logo was guessed from the school's name before, which rendered blank monograms for schools like Boston College.
Voice on iPhone
- The upgraded voice engine now actually runs on iPhone. A browser security policy was silently blocking it there and falling back to the old engine; the policy now allows it.
v0.2.15
September 20, 2026Voice conversations rebuilt from the microphone up, and every admission rate cross-checked against a second, federal source.
Voice conversations rebuilt
- The counselor hears you properly on a phone. Voice capture was rebuilt from the microphone up: audio is recorded at your device's native rate and downsampled cleanly, so conversations on iPhone stop coming through garbled or in fragments.
- Your own speakers no longer talk over you. The counselor's voice now plays through the browser's echo cancellation, so it is no longer picked up and transcribed as if you had said it.
- A network blip no longer ends the call. Voice sessions reconnect and resume where they left off, and you get a mute button, a live level meter and a microphone picker.
Admission numbers, double-checked
- Every admission rate is now cross-checked against the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard. A figure that disagrees with the federal record gets flagged and reviewed instead of published.
- College pages cite their source. Each school page now says its figures come from that school's own Common Data Set and names the year they cover; when a school publishes no Common Data Set at all, the page says so plainly.
- A new automated check stops a page from silently serving last year's numbers after this year's have arrived.
v0.2.14
September 19, 2026The counselor answers the questions it used to deflect, and tells you when a list it shows is not the whole list.
The counselor stopped deflecting questions it can answer
- "What is the difference between early action and early decision?" now gets a real answer. Questions about admission terms were being mistaken for questions about your own deadlines and came back with "I couldn't find that in your data". Definitional questions now go to the knowledge base regardless of what is in your account.
- Partial lists are labeled as partial. When the counselor shows a school's programs or career data, it now says how much of the total you are seeing instead of presenting a sample as the whole picture.
- A message no longer appears twice in your chat history when it was recorded from two places at once.
Blog
- The in-article link to the relevant tool now appears in every post. Seven posts were silently missing it, and a new check keeps it that way.
v0.2.13
September 19, 2026Three weeks of Common Data Set work puts 204 college pages on this year's admission numbers, and the counselor stops confusing schools that share initials.
College pages on this year's numbers
- 204 of the 438 school pages now carry 2025-2026 admission figures, up from roughly 37% of them when this campaign started three weeks ago. Every figure comes from that school's own published Common Data Set, not from an estimate or a third-party summary.
- The schools families ask about most went first. MIT, Auburn, Oklahoma State, fourteen state flagships and most of the 10,000-plus enrolment band moved onto the current cycle, along with Hawaii, Rhode Island, North Dakota and Colorado Boulder.
- Honest about the rest. 28 schools publish no Common Data Set at all, and four more publish one we have not been able to reach. Those pages name the year their figures come from instead of implying they are current.
The counselor no longer mixes up schools with the same initials
- Ask about BC and you get Boston College, not Boston University. Schools with overlapping names or initials were resolving to whichever record happened to match first, so a question about one school could come back answered with another school's data.
- 8,046 school aliases that led nowhere have been repaired, so a school is now reachable by the name families actually use for it. We re-ran 400 schools afterwards to confirm nothing else moved.
Blog posts reach the tool while you are still reading
- The link to the relevant tool now sits inside the article. On a phone the first one used to be about fifteen screens down, which in practice meant almost nobody got to it. It now appears straight after the opening section.
v0.2.12
September 14, 2026Two new free tools: what a given GPA actually gets you, and every college application deadline on one page.
What your GPA actually gets you
- Twenty-one pages, one for every GPA from 2.0 to 4.0. Each one names real colleges that admit students at that grade point average, drawn from 309 schools that publish their average admitted GPA.
- Grouped into four honest bands rather than a single ranked list, so a 3.2 shows you reach, target and likely schools instead of only the ones out of range.
Every application deadline in one place
- 386 schools with their Early Decision, Early Action and Regular Decision dates, taken from each school's own Common Data Set and filterable by deadline type.
- Including the reply date. The page shows when a decision is due back to you, not just when the application is due.
Corrections
- National Merit Scholarship award count corrected from 7,100 to about 6,700, closing the last of the scholarship figures flagged in early September.
- 17 dead links to outside sites repaired. These were citations on scholarship and college pages that had moved or been taken down.
v0.2.11
September 13, 2026Chances results spread properly for in-state schools, and four scholarship pages gained researched answers.
Chances calculator fixes
- In-state school lists now span the full range. When results were built from your state rather than from a national list, the step that guarantees a few genuinely accessible schools was being skipped, so some students saw a list weighted entirely toward reaches.
Scholarship pages
- Four scholarship pages gained real answers to the questions people actually ask about them, each one researched against the body that runs the award rather than written from a template.
- Related scholarships now link to each other, so finding one award leads to the others a student is likely to qualify for.
v0.2.10
September 12, 2026Admission Planner setup works from every state and territory, not just ten of them.
Setup no longer turns families away
- All fifty states, Washington DC and the territories now appear when you set up a student. The list had ten states in it. If you lived anywhere else you could not finish setup at all, which blocked the Admission Planner entirely for families in forty states.
- Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands ZIP codes now resolve. A San Juan ZIP previously matched no state, so the whole geographic part of a student profile came back empty and school matching had nothing to work with.
- Guam and the Pacific territories pick their location directly, because five of them share a single ZIP prefix and guessing one would have mislabelled the other four.
v0.2.07
September 9, 2026An AP score calculator for twelve subjects, and a clearer way around the site.
AP score calculator
- Work out what raw score you need for a 3, 4 or 5, across twelve AP subjects, each with its own page and its own scoring breakdown.
- Built from the published scoring guidelines for each exam, with multiple choice and free response weighted the way College Board weights them.
Getting around
- Reworked navigation so the free tools are reachable from anywhere on the site rather than only from the home page.
- School links now open the right school. Links that pointed into a specific school's detail view were being treated as separate pages by search engines, which meant some of them led to a generic list instead of the school you clicked.
v0.2.06
September 9, 2026A college chances calculator that gives you a spread of schools, not a single number.
College chances calculator
- Put in a GPA and test scores and get a real list of schools back, sorted into reach, target and likely, with each school's own published admission figures behind it.
- No account needed. The calculator is free and open to anyone, and what you type stays in your browser.
v0.2.05
September 7, 2026A rebuilt home page, and a fix for sixteen college pages that were describing the wrong school.
Sixteen college pages described the wrong school
- Sixteen of fifty college write-ups were filed under the wrong school. The page for Liberty University carried Vanderbilt's description, sources and citations under Liberty's own heading, and had done for months. All sixteen have been rewritten against the correct school.
- A check now runs before anything merges that refuses any college write-up which does not describe the school it is filed under, or which has no source behind it. This particular mistake cannot reach the site again.
A rebuilt home page
- New opening, pricing and trust sections, written for parents trying to work out in under a minute whether Solyo does the thing they came looking for.
Search and titles
- Page titles on the main hubs no longer get cut off mid-word in search results.
- Assorted fixes to the counselor chat covering answers that came back incomplete.
v0.2.04
September 7, 2026Two new free tools: the full 2027 AP exam calendar with a clash checker, and every historically Black college in one place.
The 2027 AP exam calendar, with a clash checker
- Every 2027 AP exam date and start time in one place. Exams run 3 to 7 May and 10 to 14 May, with late testing 17 to 21 May. All 39 subjects across both weeks, taken from College Board and dated so you can see when we last checked it.
- Find a scheduling clash months before it becomes a problem. Tick the exams your student is sitting and Solyo flags any two booked into the same session, then names the exact late-testing date each one would move to. College Board publishes the regular and late-testing calendars on separate pages and never crosses them, so families have always had to work this out by eye in April. Your list stays in your own browser.
- It tells you what to do next. A clash is normal, not a mistake to appeal. The page explains that your school AP coordinator orders the alternate exam, that a family cannot arrange it directly, and that it has to happen before the exam ordering deadline.
All 102 historically Black colleges, comparable side by side
- Every HBCU in one directory, grouped by state. All 102, across 19 states, Washington DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with admission rate, net price after aid, six-year graduation rate and what graduates earn ten years on.
- Net price, not sticker price. The split is 51 public and 51 private nonprofit, and published tuition tells you very little about which is cheaper for your family. The directory leads with what a typical student actually pays.
- Honest about the count. You will see 99, 102 and 105 quoted in different places. The page shows all three figures and explains that the gap is the year of the count and schools closing or merging, not a disagreement about what an HBCU is.
Testing policy guidance brought current
- Yale no longer belongs in the test-flexible group. It was the canonical example from February 2024 but reverted to requiring the SAT or ACT in May 2026, effective with the 2026-2027 cycle. The guidance said otherwise.
- Ivy League testing policies re-verified against each school own admissions page, rather than against a summary of them.
Easier to find, easier to move around
- School pages no longer lose their own headline in search results. 157 of the 383 college pages were cutting their title mid-figure, so a page about MIT admissions showed a percentage with the word "Acceptance" missing entirely. Every one now keeps the number and the label.
- Related links across the site actually vary. Career, task and FAQ pages were each pointing at the same handful of siblings no matter which page you were on, which left most of them reachable only from their index. Every page now links to a different set, so browsing from one career or one checklist item leads somewhere new.
- A few dead links fixed. Five links to school financial aid sites were built without their address prefix and led nowhere.
v0.1.96
August 31, 2026Ask the counselor which colleges are strongest for a career and get a real answer, plus a quieter inbox and calendar dates that hold up.
Best colleges for a career, finally answered
- "What are the best schools for finance?" now returns a ranked list. Ask about a field, a major, or a career and Solyo ranks the whole college directory by how strongly each school delivers it, with public or private, admit rate, and what graduates of that program actually earn. Ask for public and private together and you get both lists.
- Career words work, not just major names. Investment banking, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, consulting, pre-med and pre-law all resolve to the right programs instead of coming back empty.
- Solyo's in-depth briefs on 40+ major universities are reachable at last. A retrieval gap kept them hidden, so questions like "is Boston College Jesuit" or "what is Stern known for" fell through. They now answer from the brief: strongest programs, career pipelines and placement, campus life, admissions context.
- Answers show where the numbers came from. A sources panel now names the College Scorecard, federal campus safety data, Solyo's counseling knowledge base, or the scholarship catalog whenever the answer leaned on one.
New expert guidance in the counselor
- Career pathways and school strategy. A new chapter on where school choice genuinely gates career access and where it does not, covering finance, consulting, tech, quant, pre-med, pre-law, and engineering, including how campus recruiting pipelines actually work once your student is enrolled.
- Waitlists and deferrals. What a waitlist offer is really worth, how to write a letter of continued interest, the UC opt-in, the early-round deferral playbook, and how aid and housing work for late admits.
- Choosing a major, and what it costs or earns. Major versus prestige, the computer-science enrollment shift, earnings and underemployment data, direct-admit versus undeclared, double majors, and how to have the conversation at home.
- A corrected FAFSA calendar. Solyo had been repeating a pre-launch projection that the 2026-27 FAFSA opened December 1, 2025. It actually opened September 24, 2025, a week ahead of schedule. The 2027-28 form opens on or before October 1, 2026.
- A fuller guide to Solyo itself. Ask the counselor why PowerSchool and Canvas show different grades, how GPA tracking works, how to share access with your student, or how to reconnect Google, and it now answers from the product guide.
A quieter, more honest inbox
- Recruitment blasts stop pretending to be personal. A college campaign that greets your student by name but carries a mass-mail unsubscribe footer is now recognized as marketing, so it no longer shows up as a personal email that needs a reply.
- Real people are untouched. A counselor writing to you one to one, and your own school's newsletters, keep their place. Only campaign infrastructure gets demoted.
- Draft replies stay grounded. Suggested replies no longer invent commitments on your behalf. If an email asks you to register and nothing in your account says you did, the draft stays non-committal or leaves you a placeholder instead of writing "we're already signed up".
Calendar dates you can trust
- An email read days late no longer lands on the wrong day. "Practice today" now means the day the email arrived, not the day Solyo got around to it, so a backlog after a sync outage no longer scatters events across the wrong dates.
- One event, not two, when two sources describe it. A team app reminder titled by team name and the school's email titled by venue, at the same time on the same day, are now recognized as the same practice.
v0.1.95
August 30, 2026A mailbox that stopped syncing now says so, with a button to fix it.
Reconnect a stalled mailbox
- "Sync stopped" with a Reconnect button. When Google expires a connection, the Email Accounts card now shows the affected mailbox in orange with a Reconnect button that restores it in one pass and backfills the last 7 days. Previously a dead mailbox kept showing a green connected chip with no way back.
v0.1.94
August 30, 2026A compare view that actually helps you decide, 26 more Florida scholarships, and email sync that keeps its own schedule.
Compare schools side by side
- A compare view that finishes the job. Put up to four schools side by side and see the rows that matter first: your student's resolved cost, their match tier, and the four-year total. Rows where the schools are effectively the same collapse into one "Similar" line so the real differences stand out.
- Drop a school without starting over. Dismiss any column to narrow the field, and your comparison survives a page reload.
A clearer saved-school list
- Safety, Target, and Reach at a glance. The saved list is grouped by category with drag-and-drop between groups, so you can see whether the list is balanced.
- Add straight to compare. Save a school and send it to the comparison in the same motion, from search results or from a school page.
- Visitors get an explanation, not a dead end. Someone browsing without an account now sees what the saved list does and how to start one, instead of an empty panel.
Florida scholarships
- 26 more Florida awards. Florida state programs, statewide foundations, and Orlando-area awards are now in the catalog and matched like every other scholarship, with the same researched odds and eligibility detail.
Reliability
- Email sync keeps its own schedule. The background sync now arms itself when the service starts, so your inbox keeps being checked without anyone opening the app.
- Solyo notices when Google drops a connection. Expired mailbox connections are now detected and flagged the moment they fail, which is what makes the Reconnect button in 0.1.95 possible.
v0.1.93
August 30, 2026Your student can now have their own Solyo login, and grades always land in the right grading period.
Invite your student
- Your student gets their own login. From Settings, invite your student by email and they get their own Solyo account: College Search, College Planning, Scholarships, Career Exploration, their grades, and the AI Counselor, all scoped to them.
- They can pitch in on their own profile. Students can log their own test scores and add their extracurricular activities, so the scholarship and admissions picture stays up to date without you doing the typing.
- You stay in control. Your emails, family calendar, and financial details are never visible to a student account, grades are read-only for them, and you can revoke or restore access anytime from Manage Students.
Grades in the right grading period
- The school calendar now decides the grading period. New grades are filed under the semester or trimester the calendar says your student is in, so a grade received in August no longer shows up under last spring.
- The dashboard and the School Grades page finally agree. Both now resolve the current year and period the same way, so you see the same grades wherever you look.
- Smarter reading of Canvas emails. Solyo now understands the course and term codes in Canvas notifications, including summer-session courses, and uses them to file each grade correctly.
A clearer scholarship tile
- One tile per student on the dashboard. Each student now gets their own Scholarships tile showing one number that matters: how many awards they are eligible to enter this year, plus a red alert with the exact date when an application closes within the week.
- Counts that match. The "For you" tab count now matches the list of scholarships on the page.
v0.1.92
August 27, 2026The right grade level for every student, and a counselor that recognizes more school names.
Accuracy fixes
- Grade levels stay correct. A student's grade level is now derived from their grade progression, so it rolls over correctly after summer and can no longer drift out of date. Existing records repair themselves automatically.
- The counselor recognizes more school names. Names with punctuation like "St. John's" and common abbreviations now resolve to the right college in chat instead of coming back empty.
v0.1.91
August 26, 2026Fewer duplicate calendar events.
Calendar fixes
- Fewer duplicates. A follow-up to the calendar cleanup in 0.1.90: the same school event arriving in slightly different emails is now recognized as one event more reliably, so your calendar stays clean.
v0.1.90
August 26, 2026Scholarship odds you can actually trust, one clear view per award, a plan anchored to your student's real year, and cleaner email processing.
Honest scholarship odds
- Published win rates, when they exist. Where a provider publishes real numbers, Solyo now shows the actual rate, like "about 1 in 39, published rate", instead of an estimate. We researched every award in the catalog to find them.
- A realistic dollar figure. The headline now says what applying broadly is realistically worth for your student, weighted by the odds of each award, instead of adding up every maximum prize.
- Every award says what kind it is. Badges distinguish "Guaranteed if you file" state programs, "Capped: file early" first-come funds, and true competitions, so you know whether an award is paperwork or a contest.
- No made-up numbers. When a provider publishes nothing, Solyo says so plainly rather than inventing a figure.
One clear view per award
- A single Learn More drawer. Every scholarship now opens one complete view: eligibility check with your student's answers filled in (tap any row to edit), what you'll get, how winners are chosen, key dates, what you'll need, and the application link.
- Richer backgrounds. Every award's About section now opens with who runs it, why it exists, and what the selection committee values, researched from the provider's own pages.
- Browse with detail. Cards in Browse All open a detail sheet with About, Eligibility, Key Dates, and How to Apply, even for awards outside your student's matches.
A plan for your student's actual year
- Freshmen through juniors see their own year, not senior year. The page now leads with "This year, 11th grade", the awards your student can actually enter now, and a month-by-month calendar of this school year.
- Senior year is a preview, not a to-do list. Awards that only open senior year appear in one "Senior year ahead" card with a realistic total and prep milestones, so nothing pressures you before it should.
- Answer questions right where they block. The questions that unlock more awards now appear inline, ranked by how many awards each answer unlocks.
Simpler settings
- One "Financial Aid & Scholarships" page. The two overlapping settings sections are merged into one, with the Pell Grant estimate built in.
- Criteria and Essays at hand. Two buttons on the Scholarships page open your student's full criteria list and the essay workspace directly.
Cleaner email processing
- Fewer duplicate calendar events and better email summaries. A batch of improvements to how school emails are classified, summarized, and turned into calendar events.
v0.1.89
July 25, 2026Scholarships come to Solyo: personalized matches with honest eligibility, essay and recommendation help, a full application tracker, and a public directory.
Meet Scholarships
- Personalized matches from a vetted catalog. The new Scholarships page matches your student against 180+ hand-verified college scholarships: national awards, all 50 states' grant programs, and need-, merit-, and identity-based funds.
- Unanswered questions never disqualify. Solyo is honest about what it knows: an award is "Eligible" only when every checkable requirement passes, and otherwise shows "N answers away" with quick inline questions you can answer in seconds to confirm more awards.
- Real dates, not vague ones. Every award shows when applications open, the deadline with a countdown, and a full key-dates timeline for the cycle.
From match to submitted
- A built-in application tracker. Track each application from saved to submitted to won. Tracking an award automatically creates a step-by-step task chain with reminders: request recommendations, draft the essay, order the transcript, submit, plus a FAFSA step for need-based awards.
- Add your own. Found a local award at school or church? Add it as a custom scholarship and track it alongside everything else.
- Merit aid from the colleges themselves. A new section shows average merit awards and aid rates at the schools on your student's list, because institutional aid is often bigger than any private scholarship.
Essay and recommendation help
- Write once, apply many times. Essays are grouped by theme so you can see that one strong essay covers a dozen awards. Drafts autosave, and you can mark which awards each essay is used for.
- Feedback and a head start. Get AI feedback on a draft, or send it to the AI Counselor to keep working on it in chat.
- Recommendation letters made easy. A recommender kit builds a ready-to-send request email and a "brag sheet" about your student to give teachers everything they need.
- An application kit per award. Each award gets a checklist plus a copy-paste dossier of your student's details for filling out provider forms.
Solyo keeps watch
- A weekly scan works for you. Solyo checks every match weekly and nudges you about deadlines within two weeks and awards worth applying to now.
- A GPA guard for renewals. Because Solyo sees grades, it can warn you when a GPA is getting close to the floor an award requires to renew, before the money is at risk.
- Juniors get a roadmap. Students not yet in senior year see what they can do now and what those moves unlock for senior year.
A public scholarship directory
- Browse without an account. A new public directory covers every award in the catalog, with hub pages for all 50 states plus DC, deadlines by month, and award types, each with eligibility, key dates, and how to apply.
- Ask the counselor. The AI Counselor now knows every award in depth: ask "how do I win the Coca-Cola Scholars scholarship" and get real guidance on what the judges value.
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.