One platform. Every part of the college journey.
The college admissions process generates a flood of moving pieces — emails to teachers, recommendation letters, essay drafts, scholarship deadlines, application portals, financial aid forms, and conversations across every channel imaginable. Most families try to manage it with a mix of spreadsheets, sticky notes, and hope.
When you work with Elite College Advising, you get something better. SmartTools is the platform we built specifically for the families we work with — and it’s included with every engagement at no extra cost.
The Student Portal
Your personalized command center. Every student gets their own login showing exactly what matters right now — opportunities your advisor is recommending, tasks and deadlines coming up, news that affects your applications, and notes from your most recent advisor session. Nothing extra. Nothing missing.
What you’ll find inside
Personalized recommendations
Your advisor curates opportunities (research programs, competitions, summer experiences, target colleges) based on your profile, interests, and goals. Accept the ones that fit, pass on the ones that don’t.
Tasks and deadlines
Every action item, every application due date, every test registration window — in one place, in chronological order, color-coded by urgency.
Progress at a glance
See your college list, essay count, activity portfolio, and awards in a single view. Click any tile to dig deeper.
Advisor reviews
After each session, your advisor leaves a written summary of what you discussed and what comes next. You’ll never wonder "what did we agree on last time?"
News that matters
We surface the admissions developments that affect your applications — new programs, deadline shifts, policy changes — filtered to your profile.
Panels
The other half of SmartTools. Panels keeps the unstructured side of the application process organized — every email between you, your advisor, and your recommenders; every document version; every Slack thread; every action item that came out of a meeting. Search across all of it in one place. Never lose a conversation, never forget a follow-up.
Why we built it
Most college consultants give you advice. We wanted to give you advice plus the infrastructure to act on it. Because the best strategy in the world doesn’t matter if a deadline gets missed or a recommendation request gets buried in an inbox.
SmartTools is part of how we make sure that doesn’t happen — to any of our families.