College planning checklist, grades 9–12
What actually matters in each of the four years — and what can safely wait until the next one.
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Three guides, open to anyone. Each is written from the same rules Bloom's product runs on, so nothing here is advice a family account would later contradict. No signup, no email, nothing saved.
Pick the one question on your mind today.
Each guide answers it, then says where its answer stops.
Three guides
Start with the question you actually have.
Most families arrive with one — a course to pick this month, a year that feels like it started without them, a list that is all reach and no safety. Each guide answers its own question and says where its answer stops.
How to plan high school courses
Which classes carry weight with admissions, when to add rigor, and when a harder class costs more than it earns.
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How to build a college list
Safety, match and reach — how many of each, and what makes a safety actually safe for your family.
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Figures come from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard snapshot Bloom ships with the product. Verify anything you plan around with the college or with studentaid.gov.
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A guide answers one question. A plan answers four years.
Inside a family account these same engines run against your own student — their courses, their list, their state, their aid — and keep running as the years move.
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