Built from BLS · NACE · IPEDS · College Board
◆ FOR PARENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS & SENIORS

Your kid deserves more than 38 minutes of college advice.

That's how much one-on-one college counseling the average US student gets — total, over four years of high school (NACAC). Private counselors charge $200/hr. Pathwise gives you real numbers on any college major — schools, salaries, debt, AI risk, career paths — in 2 minutes.

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◆ EVERY NUMBER SOURCED FROM:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
NACE Salary Survey
IPEDS · College Scorecard
College Board
◆ THE COUNSELOR GAP
38 min

That's how much one-on-one college counseling the average US student gets — across all four years of high school.

It's not the counselors' fault. The national student-to-counselor ratio is 372:1 (ASCA 2024–25), and counselors spend only about 21% of their time on college-specific guidance (NACAC). The system just can't give kids the time this decision deserves.

Sources: NACAC (38-min figure) · ASCA 2024–25 (ratios)
◆ HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. Two minutes.

No phone calls. No appointments. No signup forms. Just real data delivered to your inbox.

01
Type any college major.
Computer Science. Nursing. Marketing. Whatever your kid is considering — even majors they're still on the fence about. You can run multiple reports if they're choosing between two.
Takes 10 seconds
02
We generate the full report.
Behind the scenes we pull from BLS, NACE, IPEDS, and the College Board, then format it into a clean report — top schools by ROI, salary by city, AI risk, debt math, career paths.
~2 minutes
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Delivered to your inbox.
Full report by email, plus a one-page summary you can screenshot and text your kid. Read it in five minutes. Have the real conversation that night.
Yours forever
◆ SEE BEFORE YOU BUY

This is exactly what $19.99 gets you.

A full Nursing report is live as a free sample. Same format, same depth, same data quality as the paid version — just on one specific major. Read it for five minutes. If you don't see real value, you won't buy. That's the whole pitch.

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◈ VERIFIED
YOUR REPORT
Nursing
$64K
START SAL
$129K
PEAK SAL
4.5
AI RISK
TOP SCHOOLS BY ROI
1
U. of Pennsylvania
$28K/yr
2
Johns Hopkins
$31K/yr
3
U. of Michigan
$18K/yr
◆ WHAT'S IN A PATHWISE REPORT

Everything a $5,000 counselor would tell you. In 2 minutes.

Type any college major. We generate a full intelligence report you can read on your phone in five minutes and send your kid in one click.

◆ 01 / SCHOOL RANKINGS
Top 10 schools ranked by REAL ROI
Not by reputation. By net cost vs. starting salary. The schools that actually pay back. Includes admit rate, in-state vs. out-of-state cost, post-aid cost, average GPA.
◆ 02 / SALARY BY CITY
What this major actually pays — in your city
Real starting salaries adjusted for cost of living. A Marketing grad in NYC takes home less than the same grad in Atlanta. Most students don't realize this until rent month.
◆ 03 / DEBT MATH
What 4 years actually costs you
In-state public vs. out-of-state vs. elite private. Average debt, monthly loan payment after graduation, how long until it's paid off on a typical salary.
◆ 04 / AI RISK SCORE
Will AI replace this job by 2035?
Major-by-major automation risk. Which roles inside this field are getting hit by AI now, which ones are barely affected, and why. Crucial context most counselors don't have.
◆ 05 / CAREER PATHS
5-8 jobs this degree actually leads to
Each with day-to-day descriptions, top employers, key skills, demand level. The careers nobody tells you about — the ones that pay 30% more than the obvious ones.
◆ 06 / BOTTOM LINE
A one-page summary you can send to your kid
The screenshot-and-text-to-your-kid version. The numbers that matter, the honest tradeoffs, and the question your kid should answer before they commit.
◆ BUILT BY A STUDENT, FOR PARENTS
"Six months ago I was where your kid is."

I'm Griffin. I'm a freshman at Seattle University studying finance. When I was picking my major, I realized something messed up — most of my classmates were making the most expensive decision of their lives based on a campus tour and a gut feeling.

Private counselors cost $5,000+. Public school counselors barely have time. And the actual data — what each major pays, which schools have real ROI, which careers AI is eating — is scattered across a dozen government databases.

So I built Pathwise. It's the tool I wish my parents and I had a year ago.

Griffin Saito-Hardie · Founder, Pathwise
◆ WHY IT'S $19.99
$5,000+
What a private college counselor charges for the same information.
~2 min
From checkout to a complete report delivered to your inbox.
$19.99
One report. One major. One-time payment. No subscription.
◆ QUESTIONS PARENTS ASK

The four things I get asked most.

Where does the data actually come from?
Every salary number traces to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics or the NACE annual salary survey. Every school cost number traces to IPEDS or the College Scorecard. Every figure is sourced. See the full sources page →
Is it just a ChatGPT wrapper?
No. Pathwise pulls from a structured data layer (BLS, NACE, IPEDS, College Board) and uses AI to format and explain it — not to invent numbers. Every figure is sourced and verifiable. We deliberately don't generate anything that isn't traceable to a government dataset.
What if my kid hasn't picked a major yet?
That's the most common situation. Pull a report for the 2-3 majors they're considering and compare. Most parents end up buying 2 reports — one for the major their kid says they want, one for the major you've been quietly hoping they'd pick.
What if I'm not sure it's worth $19.99?
Read the free Nursing sample first — it's the same exact format, depth, and data quality as the report you'd buy. If the sample doesn't convince you, the paid version won't either. Each report is a digital good delivered immediately, so all sales are final once the report is generated (full policy at pathwiseusa.com/refund.html). If your report has a clear factual error, email griffin@pathwiseusa.com within 7 days and we'll re-deliver or credit you.
◆ THE DECISION YOUR KID IS ABOUT TO MAKE

Will shape the next ten years.
Spend twenty bucks to do it with real data.

Two minutes from now you can have the whole picture in your inbox. Or you can keep hoping the gut feeling is right.

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