Our Advantage

Precise: Unlike general tutoring or freelance platforms, PathUs employs a proprietary AI algorithm to match high school students with college mentors who share:
✅ Similar intended majors (e.g., Chemistry → Matched with Chemistry majors)
✅ Overlapping extracurriculars (e.g., Science Olympiad, Robotics, Debate, etc.)
✅ Shared target colleges (e.g., aiming for Ivy League, UCs, or liberal arts colleges)
✅ Comparable academic strengths (e.g., strong AP/IB coursework)
Smart: While other platforms rely solely on human mentorship, PathUs integrates AI-driven insights into real-time mentoring sessions to:
✅ Provide accurate guidance based on up-to-date admissions trends.
✅ Suggest essay improvements, application strategies, and SAT/ACT plans.
✅ Detect weak spots in a student's application and recommend improvements.
Affordable: Unlike private counselors who lock insights behind premium packages, PathUs offers:
✅ On-demand mentoring, guides, and AI-powered tools at a very low starting cost.
✅ Instant access to admissions tips, essay templates, and SAT/ACT strategies without requiring an expensive session.

80% of the Service Quality at Only 20% of the Price
✅ Provides high-quality mentoring at a fraction of the cost of private college counseling agencies.
✅ Delivers strategic, AI-assisted guidance that rivals traditional consultants.
✅ Helps students craft competitive applications without excessive fees.
Flexible, Pay-As-You-Go Packages (No Forced Full-Package Purchases)
✅ Students can choose individualized mentoring sessions or customized packages based on their needs.
✅ Unlike traditional agencies that force full-package purchases ($9,000+), PathUs allows students to pay for only what they need (essay reviews, SAT/ACT help, extracurricular planning, etc.).
✅ Parents don’t have to commit to long-term contracts—they can scale their engagement as needed.
More Accessible & Affordable Resources
✅ PathUs offers on-demand mentoring, guides, and AI-enhanced resources at a very low starting cost.
✅ Students can access high-quality admissions tips, essay templates, and strategy guides without needing to book a full mentoring session.
✅ Unlike exclusive consulting firms that lock insights behind premium packages, PathUs provides accessible, structured guidance.

PathUs mentors are college students from top universities who:
✅ Undergo a professional training program designed by college counselors with 30+ years of experience.
✅ Provide accurate, ethical, and highly personalized guidance.
✅ Combine firsthand experience from elite universities with expert-backed training to deliver high-quality mentorship.
Partnerships with College Counseling Agencies who:
✅ PathUs collaborates with multiple college counseling agencies that have decades of experience in admissions strategy, essay coaching, and extracurricular planning.
✅ These partnerships allow PathUs to integrate proven counseling frameworks into its mentoring model, ensuring that students receive accurate, ethical, and effective guidance.
✅ Through these partnerships, PathUs is able to provide high-quality mentorship at a fraction of the cost of private consulting firms.
Real-World Validation: PathUs’s Past Experiences & Early Successes:
✅ Before launching, PathUs conducted 400+ customer interviews with students and parents to refine its mentoring model.
✅ The team ran and is continuously running multiple live Zoom mentoring sessions, manually matching high school students with college mentors to validate its AI matching algorithm.
✅ PathUs has consulted professional counselors, Ivy League students, and admissions experts to ensure its service meets real student needs.