Help Your Child Stand Out With a Clear College Strategy

Your child doesn’t need more extracurriculars. They need to know which ones could become research, awards, internships, leadership, or standout projects—and which ones aren’t worth their time.

That is one of the hardest questions for a busy parent to answer.

Should your student keep the activity they’ve done for three years? Go deeper on one interest? Pursue research? Find an internship? Enter a competition? Take on leadership? Start something of their own?

And what should a 9th grader be doing now that is different from what a 10th or 11th grader should prioritize?

In this event, we’ll show you a new way to answer those questions.

You’ll get a live look at The FlightPlan, an AI-powered college strategy platform from Curious Cardinals, and see how it takes a student’s academics, extracurriculars, interests, goals, and school context and turns them into a personalized roadmap for what to focus on next.

We’ll walk through a student profile live and show you how The FlightPlan helps answer questions like:

Which activities should my student bolster, maintain, or cut? Where are they already strong, and where are there still meaningful gaps? What should they prioritize at their particular grade level? Which interests could become research, an internship, an award, leadership, a publication, or an original project? What opportunities should they pursue next? What should they actually be doing this month, rather than vaguely “sometime before college applications”?

Because there is a big difference between participating in robotics and inventing something that gets patented.

Between liking biology and publishing original research.

Between being interested in writing and producing work that wins a national competition.

We’ve spent six years working with 15,000 students, so we’ve seen what can happen when ambitious students get the right direction: students have published research, won major competitions, built award-winning apps, launched businesses and nonprofits, and presented work to organizations like NASA.

The common thread is rarely that they simply did more.

It’s that they figured out where to go deeper and what the right next move was.

By the end of this virtual event, you’ll understand how The FlightPlan identifies what is already working, what might be missing, the specific next steps that could help your child turn their interests into meaningful accomplishments, and the scaffolding that will help them actually follow through.

You’ll leave with a much clearer answer to one of the hardest questions in high school: “What should my child actually be focusing on next?”