ChatGPT Teens Adds College Planner for High School Applicants

OpenAI has dropped a college planner directly into ChatGPT for Teens, aiming to help American high schoolers sort through application deadlines, scholarship searches, and fee waivers. The rollout targets students in grades 10 through 12 who intend to attend four-year institutions. Expect the tool to appear within weeks. Plans exist later to cover two-year colleges, trade schools, and learners outside the United States.

This feature focuses on tracking progress rather than picking a school. Students can log their status across multiple universities, view timelines for upcoming tasks, and ask ChatGPT questions about specific requirements or how to get started. Decisions regarding where to apply still belong to conversations between families, counselors, and prospective colleges.

OpenAI reported that nearly 1.2 million teens have already used Learning Visualizations in the platform to grasp math and science concepts. Over 180,000 students utilized Study Mode for step-by-step learning support during the initial rollout of ChatGPT for Teens.

The company is also working with College Advising Corps to extend its reach into new states. This partnership will launch an AI fellowship where advisors can experiment with how artificial intelligence supports their work in under-resourced high schools. Ekaterina Struett, CEO of College Advising Corps, noted that unanswered questions about forms or deadlines often feel like closed doors for students. She added that the planner offers promise by helping teens prepare for those conversations and stay on track toward affordable options aligned with their goals.

New study tools are arriving alongside the planner. Users can now create and save flashcard decks from uploaded notes or a chosen topic. They may revisit missed cards and schedule future practice sessions. The system will also detect when someone tries to build a quiz from notes, then make it easier to turn those documents into interactive tests. Multipage note scanning is coming to iOS devices soon, while continuous photo capture stitches several images into one PDF ready for upload. Android support is still in development.