Preparing your personalized experience
Verified college planning · Free for students 16+
Tell us what matters to you. We’ll show you colleges that fit your life, your budget, and your career goals using verified data.
Your personal college agent
Built around your saved plan
Start with the Illinois public option: its estimated net cost is lower, and its business outcomes align with your goal.
Next move
Run the school’s official net price calculator.
2,917
Colleges
Private
Saved plan
$0
Free plan
Official College Scorecard, O*NET, and BLS evidence with source dates.
What you can count on
Know who Gateway is for, where its college information comes from, and what the free plan costs before you begin.
Built for students
Gateway’s current free workspace is made for students age 16 and older navigating college and career choices.
Real college data
Explore operating associate- and bachelor-focused colleges from the official June 10, 2026 College Scorecard release.
No trial pressure
The free plan does not expire. Your private shortlist, planning workspace, and personal college agent require no payment information.
Built around your next move
Start with your goals. Compare real options. Keep the details organized. Ask for help whenever the next step feels unclear.
How it works
01
Write naturally. Location, budget, major, campus size, or the future you want all count.
Midwest · Business · Cost-conscious · Collaborative
02
Source dates stay visible. Estimates are never promises.
03
In-state estimate
Before your final aid offer
04
Run net price calculators
Request recommendation
Confirm early deadline
Affordability visualizer
Adjust the example cost and salary. Gateway shows the math instead of hiding it behind a mystery ranking.
Four-year cost
$64,000
Debt-to-earnings
0.89×
Value score
+12.5%
Formula
((Projected first-year salary − Total four-year net cost) ÷ Total four-year net cost) × 100
Trust is a product feature
College decisions are too important for mystery scores or confident guesses. Gateway shows its evidence, protects your work, and labels uncertainty.
Important college facts include their source and date so you know what is verified and what still needs a final check.
Your saved schools, notes, timeline, documents, and agent conversations stay tied to your account and can be exported or deleted.
Gateway calls out estimates and sends you to official school, scholarship, government, or counselor sources for final decisions.
Ready when you are
Create a private workspace for your shortlist, deadlines, and personal college agent. No card. No expiring trial.
Free means free
Your free plan does not expire and requires no card. Signed-in students can use their personal college agent with privacy, moderation, and usage safeguards.
Free
Available nowA non-expiring student account with no payment information required.
Plus
Checkout disabledPlanned higher limits after Stripe configuration and entitlement QA.
Family
Waitlist onlyComing later, after supporter invitations and student privacy controls are ready.
FAQ
What Gateway does, what stays free, and where you should always verify important details.
Gateway is currently available to students age 16 or older. We check age during signup before creating a student workspace.
Gateway currently includes 2,917 operating associate- and bachelor-focused colleges from the official U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard release dated June 10, 2026.
No. Free does not expire and does not require payment information. Plus and Family are not available for checkout yet.
No. Your personal college agent can explain choices and organize next steps using your saved plan. It does not predict admission, guarantee outcomes, or replace official school and financial-aid sources.
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