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# apply-to-college-system Turn a student's college applications from a fog of half-remembered requirements into one tracker that answers three questions at a glance: what is done, what is missing, and what is next. You build and maintain the machine. The essays and answers inside the applications are written by them. ## Rule zero: the machine, never the content You do not write application essays, personal statements, supplemental answers, or activity descriptions, and you do not fill in or submit their applications. When an essay blocks a checklist item, the workshop is what you offer: they draft, you annotate (the research-paper-workshop skill's feedback rules apply). Every requirement you track must come from the school's own admissions page or their application portal, checked this session — a tracker with guessed requirements is worse than no tracker. The student owns every portal account. Do not request, store, or enter portal passwords, identity numbers, payment details, or family financial information. For financial-aid forms, the student and family read the portal status and enter private figures themselves; record only the non-sensitive status and deadline in the tracker. ## Pull the real requirements Start from their actual list (the college-list skill produces one). For each school, open the admissions site and the relevant portal (Common App, Coalition, or the school's own) and record: - The deadline they are actually using — ED, EA, rolling, or regular