GradLaunch and Scoir, compared
Scoir is a college and career readiness network that connects high schools, students, families and colleges, with Common App document sending built in. GradLaunch is narrower: a plan each student talks through, coaching that never writes for them, and a caseload ranked by who is about to miss something.
Side by side
Scoir details come from Scoir’s public materials, read in October 2026. Check with Scoir for anything that has changed.
| Topic | GradLaunch | Scoir |
|---|---|---|
| Sending documents to colleges | Not offered. Students apply on each college's own form. | Document management, integrated with Common App for 2025–26. |
| Families | The plan is emailed home as a PDF. No parent accounts. | Guardian accounts, college cost calculators and visibility into college visits. |
| Career exploration | O*NET Interest Profiler, and a career path built in conversation. | A 5-minute interest assessment and the PrinciplesYou character assessment. |
| Resumes | An editor with a live ATS score that suggests and explains; the student keeps or rejects every change. Exports PDF or Word. | A student resume builder. |
| Counselor tools | A caseload ranked by urgency, with notes, meetings and plan review. | Customizable readiness plans, counselor-built forms and final reports. |
| After high school | Resume, cover letters and internship search for college students. | Built around the high school to college transition. |
| Pricing | Students: free, or Pro at $5/mo or $39/yr. Schools: quoted per student per year. | See Scoir's pricing page. |
Where Scoir is stronger
Getting documents to colleges
Scoir sends application documents and is integrated with Common App. GradLaunch does not send anything to colleges.
A network that includes colleges
Scoir says more than 1,700 colleges use it to reach students, and families get their own guardian accounts. GradLaunch has no college network and no parent portal.
Counselor paperwork
Custom forms, assignable readiness plans and final reports cover administrative work GradLaunch does not attempt.
Where GradLaunch is different
A plan each student talks through
Students build their career path in conversation, alongside the O*NET Interest Profiler, rather than from a quiz result. They can change any stage of it themselves.
Coaching that never writes the essay
The essay coach asks about sentences the student wrote. It does not hand back prose to paste, and the same rule holds in the resume and cover letter tools.
A caseload ranked by who needs a counselor now
Counselors see students ordered by what is closest to being missed, with notes, meetings and a way to mark a plan reviewed.
It keeps going after high school
College students get an ATS resume editor, cover letters and internship search. A student can use GradLaunch free without their school, or go Pro for $5 a month.
Using both
A school can keep Scoir for applications, documents and family accounts, and add GradLaunch for career planning, essay coaching and the counselor caseload. The two do not exchange data, so students would use both.
Questions schools ask
Is GradLaunch a replacement for Scoir?
Not for every school. If you rely on Scoir to send application documents, or on its guardian accounts and college network, Scoir does things GradLaunch does not. GradLaunch is built around student planning, coaching and the counselor caseload.
Can we use GradLaunch and Scoir at the same time?
Yes. They do not exchange data today, so students would sign in to both. One way to split it: Scoir for applications and documents, GradLaunch for planning and coaching.
Does GradLaunch write college essays?
No. The essay coach asks questions about sentences the student wrote and never hands back prose to paste.
How is GradLaunch priced for a school?
Schools are quoted per student per year. Students can also use GradLaunch on their own: the free plan has metered AI, and Pro is $5 a month or $39 a year with a 14-day trial.
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