Expand your College Counseling Practice
Replace your intake form with a guided activities list. Begin your process with your students’ comprehensive story, ready for your expert counsel. Your dashboard will connect you to every one of your students and allow you to leave interactive feedback on their activities, honors, and essays in real time.
Getting to know your students takes time.
Every student has a unique and complex story, and it takes time to get to know each and every one. They often don’t know what counts on a college application, or they might not be proud enough of their accomplishments to share openly.
We know how challenging it is to spend a series of meetings just gathering information, which ultimately limits the number of students you are able to help.
Stop spending days just getting to square one.
Activities-first framework guides students in finding what’s unique about their story, so you can focus on providing your personal touch and expert guidance, in less time with better results.
Faster
Students build their profile, activities, and honors. Their story develops faster, so you can spend your time working toward their future rather than trying to dig through their past.
Easier
Your students start with a brag sheet, resume, and essay suggestions, all built from their initial profile. You can leave feedback at every step, and keep every document up-to-date and consistent, so you never have to do the same work twice.
Better
Essay templates help your students focus their message. Connect with students with more visibility, more information, and more time to get their application to the next level.
Every tool you need,
every step of the way
Activities-first framework helps your students capture their story and organizes it into a college application, while you provide them with feedback at every step.
MCA gives access to 1,300+ activity choices, 18,000+ role and distinction options, 5,000+ organization-name prompts, and thousands of guided questions and template combinations.
Simplify your workflow, guide more students
Extensive toolkit allows you to simplify your workflow and guide more students without sacrificing quality or time, building meaningful relationships and more successful applications.
Traditional workflow
Workflow with MCA
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Frequently
Asked Questions
What is My College Activities?
My College Activities is a program that helps students recognize and describe the experiences that tell their story. Guided choices and targeted questions help them build stronger activity descriptions while simultaneously preparing their brag sheet and resume, giving you more useful information to work with.
How does it save me time?
Students often need help remembering what they did, identifying their contributions, and explaining why they mattered. My College Activities guides the process of information gathering so you can spend more time on application strategy, thoughtful feedback, and each student’s individual goals.
What makes it different from a questionnaire or activity tracker?
It goes beyond collecting answers. Created from nine years of independent college counseling experience, our Activities-First Method helps students explore their roles, leadership progression, responsibilities, and impact. Proprietary coaching logic helps turn those details into clear descriptions.
Will students know what to write?
They don’t have to start with a blank page. Streamlined choices and focused questions help students recall their experiences and find specific language to describe them. Students build from what they actually did, preserving their own story and voice.
What if a student doesn’t have traditional extracurricular activities?
Paid work, family responsibilities, personal projects, and community involvement can all reveal meaningful contributions. My College Activities helps students recognize experiences they might otherwise overlook.
Do students have to enter the same information more than once?
The activity information they enter supports multiple outputs, including their application activity descriptions, brag sheet, and résumé. They can build on the same work instead of starting over for each document.
Does it help with application character limits and activity hours?
Yes. Guided coaching helps students make effective use of limited description space. The proprietary Commitment Detail Workshop also helps students work through their participation to estimate hours per week and weeks per year more thoughtfully.
Does My College Activities replace my counseling process?
Your judgment, relationships, and strategy remain central. My College Activities supports your process by helping students arrive with more complete information and clearer descriptions for you to review and refine together.
Can students use their descriptions on college applications?
Yes. Students can review and copy their completed descriptions into Common App or other applications, adjusting for each platform’s fields and requirements. My College Activities does not submit applications for them.
Is it useful before senior year?
Yes. Students can begin recording experiences and reflections earlier in high school, while the details are still fresh. That record gives you a stronger foundation for future conversations about interests, growth, and contribution.
How do students share their work with me?
Independent counselors are able to view all of their students' information once their student accepts their invitation.
How can a student try it?
Students can sign up and try one activity for free without having to complete their profile. Start with one experience, see the brag sheet begin to take shape, and review an activity description they can use on an application.