College-access platform · Launching fall 2026

College access takes more than information. It takes a system that keeps students moving.

Every year, students lose momentum between planning, applications, financial aid, enrollment, and the transition to college. OnTrackEDU combines personalized guidance, a comprehensive college-readiness curriculum, and connected workflows into one student experience — so they always know where they are, what comes next, and how to keep moving forward.

The flagship curriculum

The Get-In Guide

Six modules across three phases
PlanIdentity, exploration & the college list
ApplyApplications, essays & financial aid
ThriveEnrollment, transition & success
6guided modules
$0cost to students
2app + live workshops
11–12built for juniors & seniors
300–600

students per counselor in many under-resourced schools — far past the 1:250 ASCA recommends

59%

of high schools offer dedicated college counseling — concentrated in wealthier districts

~30%

of accepted low-income students never enroll — lost to "summer melt" between admission and day one

What works

structured college-access programs improve application, FAFSA, and enrollment outcomes — and persistence once students arrive

The challenge isn't creating opportunity. It's carrying students through it.

Schools have invested heavily in helping students get to college, and those efforts matter. But getting students to campus requires more than moments of support. It requires continuity across months of decisions, deadlines, and transitions — where even capable students can lose momentum before they ever enroll.

Where college access becomes college enrollment

The work happens between the milestones.

Every workshop, advising session, and college event moves a student forward. But none of them carries the student all the way to enrollment. The work that determines whether a student actually gets there happens in between.

Where schools may show up
  • College fair
  • FAFSA workshop
  • Application workshop
  • Senior meeting
  • Decision Day
These moments matter. The journey continues afterward.
What students still have to navigate
  • Finish applications
  • Write essays
  • Submit financial-aid documents
  • Compare aid offers
  • Apply for scholarships
  • Register for orientation
  • Complete housing
  • Register for classes

That's where OnTrackEDU lives.

OnTrackEDU doesn't replace the moments schools create. It connects them, giving every student one place to learn, plan, and keep moving — from the first college conversation to the first day on campus.

Whether a school already has a college-access program or is building one from the ground up, OnTrackEDU provides the continuity students need to keep moving forward.

Meet Scout · Live now in the platform

Guidance when counselors can't be everywhere.

Students don't stop needing guidance when the school day ends. Questions come up while filling out applications, comparing financial aid offers, registering for orientation, and preparing for the transition to college.

Scout gives students immediate, plain-language guidance throughout the process — helping them understand what comes next, stay organized, and keep moving forward, while keeping counselors focused on the moments that require human judgment.

"A search box helps a student look. Scout helps a student decide."

We extend your counselors.
We don't replace them.

The platform handles the structure — so counselors are free for the judgment, relationships, and encouragement only people can give.

What OnTrackEDU takes off their plate
  • Reminding students about deadlines
  • Answering the same logistical questions
  • Tracking incomplete tasks
  • Spotting which students quietly fell behind between meetings

Applications, financial aid, enrollment, and transition tasks keep moving between meetings — so counselor time stays focused on the conversations that require empathy, expertise, and relationships.

Exploration over prediction

No match percentages, no fit scores, no ranking language — anywhere. Students should feel "this sounds like me," not "I got scored by a form."

Students never pay

Access is funded by the institution, full stop. The student is the user; the school, district, or nonprofit is the buyer.

Continuity over moments

A workshop is a moment. The platform is what connects them — the follow-through between every meeting and deadline.

Who buys it

Students never pay. Institutions do.

Fastest first buyer

Nonprofits & CBOs

College-access programs (TRIO, GEAR UP), youth-development organizations, and community nonprofits running cohorts — lowest procurement friction, mission-aligned, and often already grant-ready. We lead here.

Core market

Schools & districts

Title I schools, continuation and alternative programs, and districts with high first-generation populations and counseling teams stretched past their limits — licensed per site or per student.

Funders

Foundations

Program officers who don't use the product but underwrite it across multiple sites — the path to scaled, grant-funded impact when a school can't pay directly.

Trinity Jolley, founder of OnTrackEDU
Trinity Jolley Founder, OnTrackEDU

Built by someone who lived the navigation problem.

Trinity Jolley is the founder of OnTrackEDU, a student-success platform designed to help students navigate college access, enrollment, and persistence with greater clarity and confidence.

As a first-generation college graduate who transferred to the University of Southern California and later earned a Master of Education in Educational Technology, Trinity experienced firsthand how difficult it can be to navigate educational systems without clear guidance or support.

Over the past several years, she has led education and community initiatives across schools, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations — managing programs, partnerships, and student-success efforts that have served thousands of learners and families. Through that work, she saw the same challenge appear again and again: students were expected to navigate complex processes with limited time, support, and information.

OnTrackEDU was built to change that. By combining technology, behavioral science, and student-centered design, the platform helps students take action, stay organized, and access the support they need to achieve their goals.

M.Ed., Educational Technology B.A., Sociology, University of Southern California Program Management & Educational Partnerships College Access, Student Success & Postsecondary Navigation
OnTrackEDU LLC · California Get-In Guide curriculum © 2025 App live fall 2026

See the platform, and bring it to your students for fall 2026.

We're signing a small number of founding pilot partners now. Explore exactly how it works, then start a conversation.

Explore the platform
The platform · Launching fall 2026

How The Get-In Guide works.

A six-module curriculum that spans the full journey, delivered as a student app — with live and virtual workshops you can add to bring it into the room.

How it works

Start with the app. Add workshops if you want them.

The student app is the core — where students live in the work, from planning through enrollment. Run it on its own, or pair it with live and virtual workshops that bring the same journey into the room.

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The student app

Live fall 2026. Students move through The Get-In Guide at their own pace, with their work saved to their own Google Drive — always knowing where they are and what's next.

  • Self-paced, student-owned
  • The full six-module journey, end to end
  • One connected profile, reused across essays, aid, and applications
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Live & Zoom workshops Optional

Bring the journey into the room with facilitated sessions across the year — from college planning through summer melt — in person or over Zoom, alongside parent and family nights.

  • In-person or virtual
  • Six anchor workshops a year
  • Parent nights & family sessions
Live now — inside the Explore step

Built for the questions that come up at home.

When a student is filling out an application at the kitchen table, comparing aid offers, or staring at "I don't know where to start," Scout answers in plain language — surfacing real colleges from federal data and helping build a list. It holds the thread, so by the third exchange it's reasoning about that student, not a generic one.

Three ways into one list

Talk to Scout, search by school or place, or tap a filter — Near me, HBCU, HSI, public, community college. All three feed a single saved College List.

Grounded in live federal data

Every school shows its real acceptance rate, net price after aid, and graduation rate from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard — not estimates or vibes.

Exploration over prediction

No fit scores and no match percentages — students explore, then decide. Affordable, in-state, and community-college paths sit beside the big names, never with deficit or shame language.

A list students own

Students set each school as reach, match, or safety, add their own notes, and mark what they're applying to — with built-in guidance on keeping the list balanced.

"A search box helps a student look. Scout helps a student decide."
Where Scout is headed
Scout everywhere

One "Ask Scout" launcher, a tap away inside any module — not only school search.

The navigator

Reading a student's full progress to shift from answering questions to "here's your next step."

Into Thrive

Extending Scout past admission into the on-campus and persistence modules.

The curriculum

Six modules, three phases.

Sequenced to the real decision timeline of 11th and 12th graders — grounded in exploration over prediction, with no fit scores, rankings, or match percentages anywhere.

Plan
Identity, values, exploration, and the college list
01 Identity, Goals & College Exploration Students surface their strengths, interests, and goals, then build a balanced college list grounded in exploration over prediction — no fit scores, rankings, or match percentages.
Apply
Applications, essays, scholarships, and financial aid
02 Applications, Essays & Personal Narrative A structured application process with culturally responsive personal-statement development and review frameworks built for students whose stories are often undertold.
03 Financial Aid & Affordability Step-by-step FAFSA walkthroughs, aid-offer interpretation, grants vs. loans, and a systematic way to find, track, and apply for scholarships.
Thrive
Enrollment, transition, and first-year success
04 Enrollment & Transition Reviewing offers, choosing the right college — including community-college pathways — and enrollment readiness. The melt-prevention spine of the platform: an acceptance is an invitation, not a finish line.
05 Thrive on Campus Belonging, help-seeking, self-advocacy, and campus navigation through the critical first semester — built around one shift: students who learn to ask for help early are the ones who stay.
06 First Semester Success Executive functioning, study systems, habits, and setback recovery — the persistence skills that carry a student through the first year and keep them enrolled toward a degree.
Alongside the curriculum

The Thrive Hub.

A student toolkit that lives next to the modules — planners, trackers, and check-ins to stay on pace, plus a Resource Finder for local and campus support. What a student enters once flows everywhere, so the platform feels like them, not like a form.

Partner with us

Three ways to partner.

Every partnership runs on the same platform — what changes is how much hands-on support comes with it. Start anywhere, and add support as you grow.

Essentials
The platform

Licensed access to The Get-In Guide and the Thrive Hub, plus parent resources. Fully self-serve — for organizations with existing counseling capacity.

  • Full curriculum & student tools
  • Parent resources for families
  • Onboarding & implementation support
Guided
Platform + coach

Everything in Essentials, plus an assigned OnTrackEDU Success Coach who brings the platform to life with hands-on support.

  • Everything in Essentials
  • Assigned OnTrackEDU Success Coach
  • Anchor workshops, office hours & parent nights
Partnership
Multi-site & district

Everything in Guided, plus higher-touch coaching, custom implementation, and multi-site coordination — for foundations funding several sites and districts seeking coordinated rollout.

  • Everything in Guided
  • Higher-touch coaching & outcome reviews
  • Multi-site coordination & custom rollout

Meet the OnTrackEDU Success Coach

The optional human layer in Guided and Partnership. The coach facilitates workshops, holds office hours, leads parent nights, and helps keep students moving — always augmenting your counselors, never replacing them. Not a counselor, financial-aid caseworker, or admissions rep.

Coaching is optional — add it to any plan, or start with the platform on its own.

Activation Campaigns — time-boxed pushes you can add to any tier to drive a specific outcome when it matters most. Tap any to expand.

A targeted summer push for accepted students through the window where many first-generation students quietly get lost — between an acceptance and the first day on campus. It keeps them moving through enrollment, housing, and orientation so they actually show up in the fall, a gap few schools solve on their own.

A focused drive to get seniors through their financial-aid forms before the state deadline — the single most consequential and most-missed step in the whole process. Anchored by a family FAFSA night, with steady follow-up in between.

A time-boxed sprint that turns a scattered, overwhelming task into a structured push: find scholarships worth applying to, organize the deadlines, and get applications submitted while the momentum lasts.

Sessions that bring families into the process — financial-aid and enrollment guidance, plus the context parents need to support a college-bound student, especially in first-generation households where the path is new to everyone.

The year at a glance

Six anchor moments. The app carries the rest.

When you add workshops, they follow a predictable rhythm across the school year — each one mapped to a stage of the journey, with the app doing the continuous work in between.

SeptemberCollege PlanningPlan
OctoberApplication SprintApply
NovemberFAFSA NightApply
FebruaryScholarship SprintApply
AprilDecision DayApply → Thrive
JuneEnrollment & Summer MeltThrive
Founding partners · Fall 2026

Bring OnTrackEDU to your students.

We're partnering with a small group of schools and programs for fall 2026. We begin by agreeing on the outcomes that matter most for your students — the ones we'll work toward together:

College application completion — more seniors submitting 3+ applications by deadline.

FAFSA / financial-aid completion — seniors completing the FAFSA before the state deadline.

Counselor workload on process tasks — the platform handles sequencing, reminders, and next steps.

Summer melt — fewer accepted students lost between admission and the first day of college.

College-going rate — more first-generation and low-income students enrolling, and staying enrolled.

Start the conversation

Request a pilot, or book a 20-minute demo to see it first — there's no obligation either way. It takes about a minute.