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Flamingo is Collegewise’s AI-integrated all-in-one college planning and admissions tracker, offered exclusively to Collegewise families. It centralizes every part of the college admissions process—school research, essay writing, application tracking, counselor communication, and progress planning—into a single workplace for students, parents, and counselors to use online or on the go.
Flamingo is Collegewise’s proprietary, AI-integrated college application tracker and college planning tool. This single shared system allows students, parents, and counselors to manage every part of the college admissions process together.
Through Flamingo, students receive:
Unlike generic college application tools, Flamingo is built specifically around Collegewise’s counseling methodology that prioritizes holistic, student-focused college counseling. Flamingo delivers project and task management, student goal setting, college research, real-time collaboration, and resource tools all in one convenient location.
The college admissions process involves hundreds of decisions, dozens of deadlines, and months of effort. Without a centralized system, it’s easy for important steps to fall through the cracks.
Flamingo solves that by putting everything in one shared space. This ensures students always know what they’re working on, what’s coming next, and how to connect with their counselor.
Flamingo turns what can feel like an overwhelming process into a structured, manageable, and even confidence-building experience for families. The platform is built to keep students and counselors synchronized, offer advanced task management, and give students fewer things to worry about in their college planning journey.
Students can now enjoy:
The Roadmap gives students and counselors a long-horizon view of the entire college admissions process and a student’s progression. It organizes work into large projects and individual action items across sections like Academics, Testing, and Activities.
Students toggle between task list, mission list, and timeline views to review their progress from whichever format works best. For families, the roadmap answers the question they ask most: "Where are we in the process?" For counselors, it's the backbone of every session.
Every score a student has on record, from the PSAT, SAT, ACT, TOEFL, IELTS, diagnostic exams, and mock tests, is stored in Flamingo. Students can review their own performance as well as upcoming test dates and recommended study timelines. The Testing section tracks:
All this rich data and context shapes real decisions for our team of counselors and tutors. Our experts can identify gaps, provide strategic advice on standardized test preparation and retesting opportunities, and advise on school testing policies and college selection.
Flamingo's built-in college research tools let students explore schools based on their own profile, programs, requirements, and college-fit factors in one place. This helps them build a balanced list of schools where they’ll actually thrive.
Students can filter their college search results by:
Once a student has selected the schools they want more information about, the table interface will allow students to explore more details such as:
Flamingo’s advanced technology makes college research a walk in the park. Unlike other tools or college application trackers, Flamingo’s content is updated in real time to ensure students have the most up-to-date college information. More details such as qualitative testimonials, YouTube videos, graduation rates, rankings, and statistics are all readily available once students have completed their search queries.
The Application Tracker is the operational hub of senior year. This section is specifically designed to streamline the final college admissions sprint and eliminate the need to ask questions such as: “When are college applications due?” and “Is my college application ready to submit?”
Application tracking is broken down into three sections:
The Essay Lab is where all the writing for college essays happens. Students can brainstorm, write, and finalize every college essay— from the Common App personal statement to school-specific supplements—with their counselor and editing team in the same workspace.
The Essay Search tool is organized by school and prompt, with word counts, testing policies, and student progress visible at a glance. Students can see exactly how they are progressing with their college essays to ensure every essay is polished before college application deadlines.
Essay Lab is also fully integrated with Google Docs, so students write in a familiar environment. This integration lets our counselors and editing team leave comments, track changes, and monitor revisions directly in the drafts.
Through Essay Lab, students can:
All communication between students, parents, and their Collegewise counselor and tutor happens inside Flamingo’s Messages section. This keeps conversations organized, private, and tied to the work a student is doing.
Flamingo’s built-in meeting-booking system shows upcoming and past meetings and allows families to schedule, reschedule, and join sessions directly from their portal.
Collegewise’s “Hive Mind” approach to college counseling extends to Flamingo with a full resource hub offered exclusively to Collegewise students. A comprehensive range of expert-made learning materials and updated guidelines for university applications globally, including case studies, handbooks, eBooks, and more, are available to students around the clock.
|
Feature |
Flamingo (Collegewise) |
Standard College Counseling Platforms |
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Integrated Essay Editor |
✅ |
❌ |
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AI Features and Automation |
✅ |
❌ |
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Roadmap/Task Management |
✅ |
❌ |
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Mobile App |
✅ |
❌ |
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Two-Way SMS Messaging |
✅ |
❌ |
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Robust College Search Tool |
✅ |
❌ |
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Built for Student and Counselor Workflows |
✅ |
❌ |
What makes Flamingo distinctive is the depth of its application workflow integration and student-focused interface.
Flamingo is not only built for operational efficiency, but it's designed with the student experience front and center. Students can confidently navigate tasks and timelines and manage their progress with the help and advising of their college counselor.
Flamingo stands out not just for existing, but for how deeply it integrates into the actual work of applying to college. It is not just a “nice-to-have” or a college application tool to complement the counseling process; Flamingo manages everything so students can focus on crafting stellar college applications.
Flamingo is exclusively available to Collegewise students and parents. To learn more about Collegewise’s counseling programs and Flamingo access, schedule a free consultation.