College admissions help, without the $6,000 bill.

College admissions consulting is guidance through the application process — building a balanced school list, writing and revising essays, planning deadlines, and understanding financial aid. Traditionally it's a private counselor working one-on-one with a family, often for several thousand dollars. Katalyna delivers the same core help through an AI workspace plus real human essay review, at a fraction of the cost.

Private admissions consultants commonly charge into the thousands of dollars for a comprehensive package, which puts them out of reach for most families. Katalyna is built to be affordable: there's a free plan, a free human essay review, and paid plans that cost a small fraction of a traditional consultant. See the pricing page for current plans.

Good guidance genuinely helps — but the average public-school student gets about 44 minutes of college counseling a year, and a private consultant is unaffordable for most. Katalyna gives you the structure and feedback a consultant provides (a balanced list on real data, honest essay coaching, deadline tracking, aid tools) without the price barrier. No one — a human consultant included — can guarantee admission.

Yes, for the parts that scale: scoring schools against your profile on official data, catching weak spots in an essay, keeping deadlines straight, and estimating net price. Katalyna uses AI for those, and pairs it with human review for essays. It never writes your application for you.

No. Katalyna is a coach, not a ghostwriter — a rule enforced in the product itself. It points to what works, what doesn't, and how you'd fix it, so the essay stays yours. That's also what colleges require: your own work, in your own voice.