We will show real results or nothing.

How this works

After every playbook delivery, we ask the family if they’d be willing to share an anonymized version of their result on this page. It’s opt-in, not opt-out. Most families say no, and that’s fine. The families that say yes are the only ones whose entries you see here.

Each entry contains: the date the playbook was delivered, the school the merit aid came from, the published name of the scholarship or aid program, the dollar amount, and the student profile band (a GPA range and test score range, no identifying details). Each entry includes a link to the school’s own financial aid page so you can verify the award program exists. Nothing is invented and nothing is edited after publication.

What we don’t publish

We don’t publish “average savings” statistics. Averages in this category are almost always misleading because the underlying populations vary so widely: a family with a 4.0/1500 student at TCU and a family with a 3.4/1180 student at a regional state university have completely different aid expectations. Any single number that combines them is meaningless.

When we publish a customer review, it runs under the same rules as this ledger: dated, shown with the customer’s written permission, and published verbatim, never edited after the fact. You’ll find one on our homepage, with the full unedited text one click away. What we won’t do is fill a page with anonymous praise you can’t check.

We don’t publish a “success rate.” We don’t track outcomes for families who don’t opt in, and reporting a rate based on opt-in data would be statistical malpractice.

How to verify an entry

Click the school link on any entry. The link goes to the school’s own financial aid office page describing the merit program. If the program described in the entry matches what the school publishes, the entry is real. If anything ever doesn’t match, let us know and we’ll fix or remove the entry the same day.