About myOptions
myOptions is a non-profit organization that provides assistance and valuable resources to millions of students, their parents, and high school faculty and mentors nationwide. Learn more about myOptions below!
Our Story
myOptions is a non-profit organization that provides assistance and valuable resources to millions of students, their parents, and high school faculty and mentors nationwide. We offer the nation’s largest free college planning program—myCollegeOptions®—which helps students create timely connections to the colleges and universities of their choice.
Specifically for secondary educators, myOptions Encourage is a complimentary technology platform with progress-monitoring dashboards, custom reports, and education-specific research that empowers you to lead your students to college and career success. Check your students’ progress, monitor and advise on educational opportunities, and help students make informed post-secondary decisions.
How We Help Students
Through our iOS app and website, students have the opportunity to:
Get suggested tasks based on grade level and semester to keep college planning on track throughout high school
Create their preference profiles to identify the features they are looking for (and looking to avoid) in their post-secondary opportunities
Receive a list of school, scholarship, career, and major matches
Access hundreds of advice articles we’ve created on important college and career planning topics
How We Help Educators
Beyond our work with students and families, the myOptions team:
Builds dynamic relationships with schools, school districts, and education partners to serve their students by enrolling them in the free myOptions planning program
Helps educators support students in exploring their career or college matches and navigating the entire college planning process
Provides educators a complimentary technology platform with progress-monitoring dashboards, custom reports, and education-specific research that empowers you to lead your students to college and career success
How can myOptions be free?
When there’s no cost to something with great value, it’s pretty natural for people to wonder how it can be possible. But it’s critically important to us that the programs provided by myOptions always remain complimentary to all students, parents, and high school professionals so that everyone can access the information they need.
So how do we do it?
myOptions is part of a larger, non-profit organization, ACT | NRCCUA, whose mission is to inspire lifelong learning and career success. As a non-profit, we are able to reinvest our higher education membership fees back into the myOptions programs, so students will be able to access our tools, guidance, and advice at no cost.
Interested in career opportunities?
Does the idea of helping students every day get you excited? Are you passionate about the student journey from high school to college and beyond? If so, visit our careers page to learn more.
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