College Search Tools

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When it comes to searching for your best fit, it's always confusing--there are just too many colleges! 

California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI)

You can log into your CCGI portal with your CUHSD account. And here is the link to the how-to tutorial.
 
Screenshot of the menu on CaliforniaCollege.edu

Naviance SuperMatch

Another tool you want to play with is the Naviance SuperMatch, which is free, robust and gives you additional information of admission statistics from past years. This is very handy when you start building a college list.

Log in using your CUHSD account: https://student.naviance.com/auth/fclookup
 
Screenshot of the menu for Naviance

Big Future by College Board

In addition to Naviance, there are many robust search/match engines out there such as Big Future by College Board
 
Screenshot for landing page for Big Future website

College Data

A data-driven search tool that also provides information on tuition and scholarship
 
Screenshot of college search on collegedata.com

The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review has tips on college admissions
 
Screenshot of the Princeton Review website

Niche

A survey-based college search tool
 
Screenshot of the best colleges menu on niche.com