College Applications

Plugin college-apps from marketplace 10xcolleges in tydev-new/10xcolleges. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 1 month ago.

Skills (12)

• app-tracker

  Build and maintain the application tracker spreadsheet — deadlines, per-college task lists worked backwards from each due date, recommender status, and key dates. Use when a student asks what's due, whether they're behind, what to do next, or after the college list, deadlines, or application statuse

• college-app

  Start or resume college application work with a high school student — intake, building a balanced college list, researching schools, essay coaching, recommendation requests, deadline tracking, and counselor packages. Use when someone mentions applying to college, a college list, safety/target/reach

• college-list

  Build or rebalance a student's college list into safety, target, and reach tiers, with the reasoning for each school tied to their profile, budget, and preferences. Use when a student asks where they should apply, wants schools added or cut, questions whether a school is a reach, or when the list ne

• college-research

  Research a specific college and write a cited dossier — admit rate, test ranges, real cost and net price, the program the student actually wants, campus culture, deadlines, and an honest fit assessment against the student's profile. Use when a student asks about a particular school, its cost or admi

• core

  Shared kit for the 10xcolleges skills — the validator and generator scripts, the file schemas every workspace file follows, the calendar config, workspace templates, and the voice and citation guides. Not a workflow on its own; the other 10xcolleges skills point here. Use it directly only to run a v

• counselor-package

  Build the interim package for a school counselor or parent to review — a self-contained HTML/PDF with the student snapshot, college list and reasoning, research, essay status, recommendation plan, and specific questions for their feedback. Also produces the filled-in school packet as .docx. Use when

• essay-coach

  Coach a student through a college application essay — work out what the prompt is really asking, find the angles worth writing, and give feedback draft by draft. Handles personal statements and supplements (why-us, community, challenge, extracurricular, diversity). Use whenever an essay prompt, draf

• feedback

  Pass along what the user thinks of 10xcolleges — what worked, what didn't, a rating, a bug — to the people building it. Use when the user offers an opinion about the tool itself ("this was helpful", "that list made no sense", "it keeps asking me the same thing"), asks how to give feedback, or answer

• financial-aid

  Develop a financial aid and scholarship strategy — classify strategy archetypes (need vs. merit), track FAFSA/CSS Profile priority deadlines, identify institutional merit grids, source local scholarships, and audit spring award letters. Use when a student or parent asks about paying for college, sch

• major-fit

  Discover, validate, and strategically select college majors and adjacent alternatives. Use when a student is undecided, exploring options, wondering if a major like CS or Pre-Med is too competitive, or looking for adjacent majors with strong career paths and better admit rates. Produces academic-dir

• rec-request

  Plan recommendation letters — pick which teachers to ask, audit faculty writing habits, build personalized brag sheets with classroom friction moments, draft in-person scripts and email requests, and track submission etiquette. Produces brag-sheet--<teacher>.md and request--<teacher>.md.

• student-intake

  Use this skill when starting with a new student, when a school packet / transcript / resume / activities list / worksheet needs to go into the profile, or when something about the student changed (new scores, a new activity, a changed major). Builds profile.md (who they are) and criteria.md (what th