Questions,
answered.

Spike is an AI college counselor you talk to. As you chat about your classes, interests, schools, and what is worrying you, it builds a picture of you and uses it to give advice that fits your situation instead of generic answers.

A general chatbot starts over every time. Spike remembers what you have told it, keeps your college list, essays, activities, and deadlines connected to that memory, and works from verified college data rather than whatever it recalls about a school.

Grades 9 through 12. Earlier years lean toward exploring interests and building a profile. Later years lean toward the college list, essays, and deadlines.

No. Spike learns about you through conversation and asks follow-up questions when the moment makes sense. You can also edit anything it has recorded about you.

Yes. Spike works on phones and in the browser, and your profile stays the same across both.

No, and that is deliberate. Spike helps you find what is worth writing about, pressure-tests an idea, and tells you honestly what a draft is communicating. The sentences stay yours. Submitting AI-written work is something colleges ask you not to do, and it also tends to read as hollow.

It compares what it knows about you against verified data on the colleges in its database, then explains its reasoning school by school. You get reach, target, and likely schools with a reason attached to each one, not just a ranked list.

It gives you an honest range based on where your numbers land against a school's admitted class, and it is clear that the range is an input to your decision rather than a prediction. Anyone offering a precise percentage is guessing.

Yes. The free tools run entirely in your browser with no account and nothing uploaded, including the chances calculator, GPA calculator, SAI aid calculator, and the AI essay checker.

Spike tracks application deadlines, test dates, and the tasks attached to them, and works backward from each date so work does not pile up at the end.

No, it complements them. Most school counselors carry hundreds of students. Spike handles the day-to-day questions between meetings so that in-person time can go to judgment, encouragement, and the decisions that genuinely need a person.

Yes, when the student shares access. Parents get their own view with progress, deadlines, and the current plan. It is designed to answer the questions a parent would otherwise have to ask over and over.

No. Colleges do not pay to be recommended by Spike, and student profiles are not used to put anyone into a recruiting funnel.

Email schools@get-spike.com with a little about your students and your program, and we will start with a conversation.

Free to start, which covers browsing colleges, building your profile, basic chat, and the weekly parent update. Pro is $29 a month for the full counselor including voice, essay coaching, and personalized recommendations. Holistic is $59 and triples the reviews, mock interviews, and voice minutes. For comparison, a private counselor is usually $3,000 to $10,000 for one application season.

Yes. Paid plans renew monthly and you can cancel whenever you choose.

It uses what you tell it to make its guidance more useful to you. Spike does not sell personal information. Full privacy and data-handling documentation is published before launch.

No, and be skeptical of anyone who does. Spike helps you make better decisions and submit a stronger, more coherent application. Admissions outcomes are not something any product can promise.