Plan your college applications, from first list to last deadline.
Forge is a free workspace for high school seniors. Build a college list from how graduates actually did, draft essays against the real prompts, and keep every deadline, letter and form in one place.
Free, with no account to create.
The whole season on one line
A sample fall. Forge builds yours from your list: which round for each school, their deadlines, and the essays and letters that have to land before them.
- School deadline
- Your milestone
What’s in the workspace
- Colleges for you
- Recommendations drawn from 1,281 ranked colleges, filtered by region and setting. Schools are sorted into reach, target and likely only where admissions data supports it. Where evidence is missing, Forge says so instead of guessing.
- Essays
- The 2026–27 Common App prompts and each school’s supplements, with their word limits. Drafts save as you type.
- Deadlines and paperwork
- Rounds and school deadlines on one timeline, a checklist that remembers what’s done, recommendation letters, scholarships, and FAFSA and CSS Profile steps with links to the official sites.
- Your counselor, in the loop
- Send a read-only link they can comment on, or export a brief, a calendar file or paste-ready text for your applications.
A ranking built on what happened to graduates
Colleges are ranked on early-career earnings compared with graduates of the same major elsewhere, plus graduation and employment rates. Admit rate, test scores and reputation get no weight.
| Rank | College | Early earnings | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH | $124.4k | 96% |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA | $163.4k | 94% |
| 3 | Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, ME | $111.8k | 95% |
| 4 | University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN | $102k | 95% |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA | $170.7k | 96% |
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Your AI, or none
Connect your own Grok or ChatGPT account and the copilot can read your transcript, fill in your profile and build your plan. Everything also works by hand.
Nothing submitted for you
Forge isn’t connected to the Common App and never signs in anywhere on your behalf. You paste in what you wrote.