Observed arrival · 2026-09-06
Destination College Wants to Make Financial Aid Less Chaotic
A privacy-focused set of browser tools for first-generation students and families working through the CSS Profile, tax documents, award letters, and college costs.
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The site organizes its offering around several stages of financial-aid work: extracting answers from tax documents for the CSS Profile, scanning award letters for side-by-side cost comparison, and eventually estimating college costs. The homepage labels the scanner Beta and the calculator Coming Soon. It also states that uploaded documents are processed locally in the browser and do not leave the user's device, though the extract does not expose the underlying workflow for verification.
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