Your future,
planned smarter.
From research at MIT to learning to fly with Civil Air Patrol, find the programs that actually fit you, and get guidance from people who have already done it.
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Interests matched
Majors mapped
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Alex Rivera
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Research Science Institute
MIT
Civil Air Patrol Cadets
Local squadron
GRAMMY Camp
GRAMMY Museum
The problem
Planning your future has become a second job.
01
Everything lives somewhere else
Internships on one site, research on another, scholarships in a PDF a counselor emailed once in October. There is no single place to look, so most students look nowhere.
02
Guidance is priced like a luxury
Private counselors run $150 to $300 an hour. Families who can pay get a plan. Everyone else gets whatever their school counselor can fit between four hundred other students.
03
Niche interests get ignored
If you want to fly planes, study oceans, or make films, generic lists barely mention you. The programs exist. Nobody puts them in front of the students who would care most.
What you get
Three things, done properly.
01 / Discovery
Real programs, ranked for you
Tell us your grade, your interests, and how far you are willing to travel. We score every program in the catalog against that profile and put the best fits at the top, with a link straight to the official application.
See your feedTop match today
Research Science Institute
MIT, Cambridge MA
Free, fully funded
92
match
02 / Direction
Figure out what you actually want
A weighted assessment maps favorite subjects, career curiosity, skills, and hobbies onto real majors. Subjects carry the most weight, and hobbies nudge the result without hijacking it.
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Environmental Science
Science and Health
$48,000 to $110,000
88
match
03 / Guidance
Advice from people who did it
The Co-pilot answers using passages written by verified alumni, and tells you who said what. Ask about essay topics, timelines, or how to start from nothing junior year.
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Priya S.
Stanford, Computer Science
On revision and drafts
How it works
Four steps, start to applied.
- 01
Build your profile
Grade, interests, location, and how far you will travel. Four minutes.
- 02
Get scored matches
Every program gets a score against your profile. Top of the feed is genuinely the top.
- 03
Apply directly
Each listing links to the official application page with real cost and eligibility.
- 04
Keep the thread
Save what matters, ask the Co-pilot what to do next, watch a plan take shape.
From students like you
It works for people who felt just as stuck.
“I'd bookmarked maybe six different sites trying to find research programs. PathAhead put everything in one feed and actually ranked them by how well they fit me - I found my summer lab program in twenty minutes.”
Asha R.
11th grade, considering Biology & Public Health
“I took the major quiz mostly as a joke and it actually nailed it. I'd never have thought to look at Data Science until it showed up next to Econ and CS on my results.”
Marcus T.
10th grade, undecided major
“I asked the Co-pilot what to write my essay about and it pushed back on my first three ideas. Told me they were things anyone with my resume could have written. That was annoying and completely correct.”
Devon L.
12th grade, applying to business programs
“As a parent, the dashboard is what sold me - I can see my daughter's saved opportunities and actually have informed conversations at dinner instead of guessing what she's working on.”
Priya N.
Parent of a 9th grader
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