Counza — AI College Counselor for US University Applications
Counza is an agentic AI counseling agency that runs a student's entire
US university application journey from start to finish. It gives
ambitious high-school students the strategy of a $2,000–$10,000 private
admissions counselor for $49.99 per month, and it works for applicants
anywhere in the world.
What Counza is
Counza is an AI college counselor — not a chatbot and not a
single-purpose tool. It plans and runs the complete college
application: it builds a personalized college list, lays out a
week-by-week plan with every deadline, develops essay angles tailored
to the student, recommends activities that strengthen the application,
tracks every school's requirements, and keeps parents in the loop. The
student gets the kind of end-to-end guidance that used to require an
expensive private counselor.
The problem Counza solves
A US college application is fragmented across a dozen systems — the
Common App, each school's portal, supplement prompts, financial-aid
forms, testing, activities, and deadlines that never line up. Most
families either pay a private admissions counselor $2,000 to $10,000,
or piece it together alone with generic advice and AI tools that
confidently invent acceptance rates and requirements. Counza replaces
both: it brings the whole journey into one place and runs it on data
you can trust.
What Counza does
A real, personalized college list
Counza builds a balanced list of reach, target, and safety schools
matched to the student's profile and goals. The recommendations and
the stats behind them — acceptance rate, test-score ranges, cost of
attendance, financial aid, graduation rate, and earnings outcomes — are
grounded in verified admissions data, not an AI guess. Each school also
surfaces the best-fit major for the student's intended field.
A week-by-week application plan
Every school, application round, and deadline is laid out as a
semester-by-semester plan, so the student always knows the next three
moves instead of staring at seventeen open tabs.
Essay angles that fit the student
Counza develops personal-statement and supplement angles drawn from the
student's own story and strengths. It provides direction and strategy;
the student does the writing.
Activities that move the needle
It identifies extracurriculars, competitions, and projects that
genuinely strengthen an application for the student's goals, instead of
busywork.
Application tracking and parent visibility
Requirements, supplements, and forms are tracked across every school,
and parents get visibility into progress without having to chase it.
How Counza works
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Onboarding: a short conversation captures the student's grade,
school, intended major, academics, activities, and goals.
- Profile: Counza turns that into a structured picture of the applicant.
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Plan: it generates the college list, the week-by-week timeline, essay
angles, and activity recommendations.
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Execution: the student works the plan with always-on guidance, and
parents follow along.
Who Counza is for
High-school students in grades 9 through 12 applying to United States
universities — from India, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Europe, the
United States, and anywhere else. Counza is built for international and
domestic applicants alike, and it never hardcodes one country's
assumptions.
How Counza is different
Compared with a general AI chatbot
Ask a general chatbot for college stats and it will often invent
acceptance rates and requirements. Counza's recommendations and figures
come from verified admissions data, and it runs the actual application
workflow end to end instead of answering one question at a time.
Compared with a human college counselor
A private admissions counselor typically costs $2,000 to $10,000 and is
hard to access from outside the US. Counza delivers the same
end-to-end strategy and oversight for $49.99 per month, available any
time and from anywhere.
Compared with single-purpose tools
Essay checkers and college-search sites each solve one slice. Counza
runs the whole journey — list, plan, essays, activities, and
applications — as one connected system.
Pricing
Counza is $49.99 per month, cancel anytime. Pilot access is currently
free. For comparison, a private human admissions counselor typically
costs $2,000 to $10,000 for the same scope of work.
Frequently asked questions
What is Counza?
An AI college counselor — an agentic admissions counseling service that
runs the entire US university application journey end to end.
How much does Counza cost?
$49.99 per month, cancel anytime, with free pilot access. A human
counselor typically costs $2,000 to $10,000.
Who is Counza for?
High-school students in grades 9 to 12 applying to US universities —
international and domestic applicants alike.
Does Counza work for international students?
Yes. It is built for students applying to US universities from anywhere
in the world, not just the United States.
How is Counza different from ChatGPT?
Counza is grounded in verified admissions data instead of unsourced
guesses, and it runs the full application workflow rather than
answering one-off questions.
Is Counza a replacement for a human college counselor?
It delivers the same end-to-end strategy — college list, plan, essays,
activities — at a fraction of the cost, available any time.
Does Counza write the essays for the student?
No. Counza develops essay angles and strategy; the student does the writing.
Can parents see the student's progress?
Yes. Parent visibility into the plan and progress is built in.
How do I get started?
Start a profile analysis at https://app.counza.com/ — a short
onboarding conversation builds the plan.
Contact: hello@counza.com