CollegeVineReviews of collegevine.com

Great website, but please consider adding an option for “no honors class available” as well as “no AP class available.”

It’s a really nice website.

It's great, but would be much better if you could stop randomizing the school list on the dash. I have 31 schools selected as "considering", and it only shows 10 at a time, and randomly at that. It would be great if you could either choose your 10 schools to display and hide the others, or to just show all schools on the list, or all schools selected as "applying", etc.

CollegeVine is a useful site that provides high school advice and chancing profiles. However, I think that some of their chancing is unrealistic (ex. some schools that should be considered target schools are safety or reach schools). Also, I wish that CollegeVine would ask how many AP/IB classes their school has, because some do not have access to AP classes.

My daughter was motivated to participate in the internet sessions with the college-aged peer that worked with her on timelines and essays.

Excellent service. Really made a difference. One caveat - if you are not happy with the person assigned to you, ask for someone different.

College Vine was definitely worth it. I had a great experience working with the college student assigned to me, they were incredibly helpful and responsive. The only times things were ever complicated was when the person managing my applications was occasionally unresponsive and the time that QA didn't get back to me before I needed to submit my application. But overall, college vine was great!

They seem to understand the process very well, and they take the information you feed them to help create organized essays that reflect what you tell them. I emphasize what you tell them because they don't know you, so you need to tell them exactly everything you want to include in your essays.