Better student success tools for counselors
The average ratio of students to counselors is 385-to-1.1 Given this reality how can counselors be expected to provide guidance while juggling compliance and funding challenges?
Join thousands of counselors using YouScience to help students succeed
Guidance tools aren’t
created equally
Most guidance tools fall short, offering superficial interest-based assessments, biased career exploration, and cumbersome reporting that makes tracking student progress difficult.
That’s why we built YouScience Brightpath
Science-based assessments
giving students powerful self-discovery insights based on aptitude science.
Bias-free career exploration
helping match students to best-fit careers they may not have considered using a proprietary YouScience algorithm.
Simple data and reporting
Track individual student progress and program success effortlessly with simple, time-saving data and reporting tools.
The YouScience Counselor success equation:
YouScience helps you make a difference in the lives of your students
YouScience assessments:
Provide students with a mix of science-based aptitude, interest, and work style assessments.
Other assessments:
Students are given a surface-level interest survey that may reinforce stereotypes and limit college and career exploration to their current exposure and experience.
YouScience career exploration:
Students explore careers based on their unique aptitude and interest data, created by a proprietary algorithm that uses artificial intelligence to align student data with best-fitting careers.
Other career platforms:
Students are asked to make decisions on future careers and education pathways based on limited information.
YouScience career exploration:
Students explore careers based on their unique aptitude and interest data, created by a proprietary algorithm that uses artificial intelligence to align student data with best-fitting careers.
Other career platforms:
Students are asked to make decisions on future careers and education pathways based on limited information.
YouScience course planning:
Student class choices are based on personalized aptitude and interest data. Using the Education & Career Plan tool, they can explore new classes and careers and create a 4-year course plan.
Other career platforms:
Students are asked to make decisions on future careers and education pathways based on limited information.
YouScience Work-Based Experiences:
Students can gain real-world work experience and find career-connected learning opportunities.
Other career-connected learning:
Students may explore careers they are interested in, but it’s not automated or personalized.
YouScience Work-Based Experiences:
Students can gain real-world work experience and find career-connected learning opportunities.
Other career-connected learning:
Students may explore careers they are interested in, but it’s not automated or personalized.
YouScience reporting:
Progress and reports are easily and readily available through the Brightpath platform.
Other reporting:
You have to manage all of this using a variety of disparate tools and spreadsheets.
Resources for school counselors
School counselor report shows 54% buried in administrative tasks
The 2025 School Counselor Report reveals the real challenges counselors face today—what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to change. Hear directly from counselors as they share best practices and insights to better support student success.
Real talk from real counselors: the 2025 School Counselor Report
In this exclusive roundtable, counselors from middle school through postsecondary across the U.S. reflect on the 2025 School Counselor Report and share what they’re seeing in the field—from shifting student needs to what actually works in helping young people thrive.
Report reveals 72% of students aren’t ready after graduation
The 2025 Post-Graduation Readiness Report exposes a growing gap between education and real-world readiness. Based on insights from recent graduates, the report reveals what today’s students truly need—and why it’s time to rethink how we prepare them for life after high school.
"Working as a college counselor with high school students for nearly 20 years, and having tried multiple career assessments. I’ve found the YouScience tool to be an incredibly effective method of revealing a person’s natural strengths and guiding them towards industries and jobs. I have become a YouScience evangelist and can’t speak highly enough to my colleagues about it."
—Chris Blackwell, Director of College Counseling, Cistercian Preparatory School, Irving, Texas
"YouScience has been helpful for me to get more personal with the kids and say you do have these talents, you just don’t have the life experience to realize you have these talents. Based off your aptitudes, let’s put you in a class that you will feel success. Sometimes it's classes they have never really considered."
—Jennifer Morgan, counselor, Snow Canyon Middle School, Washington County School District, Utah
"As a former guidance counselor turned CTE Director, I love the way that YouScience assesses aptitude. Any other aptitude test that I have ever worked with measures what the student "thinks" they are good at."
—Cami McCLenny, CTE director, Enterprise City Schools, Alabama
"The YouScience information that we get helps us create connections where students feel like we know them. They feel seen. They feel heard."
—Karlin Bauman, counselor, Kennedy Junior High School, Utah
"YouScience has been an invaluable tool for us. It’s a tool in the counselor toolbox to be able to use to direct kids in the right direction."
—Holly Reeves, counselor, Adele C. Young Intermediate, Utah
With Brightpath you can:
Stop
Giving students guidance that is not based on their aptitudes or what the world needs
Struggling to engage parents and guardians with limited personalized data
Using disparate tools or spreadsheets to manage your work
Dreading Mondays
Start
Providing all students with personalized, data-driven guidance that enables notably improved results
Using YouScience to engage with parents or guardians, educators, and your community
Using one platform for reporting and managing all students
Loving your job again
Brightpath will help you
Educators achieve significant results with YouScience
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Graduation rates2
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Postsecondary enrollment3
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Self-confidence3
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Graduation rates2
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Postsecondary enrollment3
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Education pathway diversity3
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Self-confidence3
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Featured videos
1 https://www.edweek.org/leadership/counselor-to-student-ratios-show-improvement-but-looming-fiscal-cliff-may-threaten-gains/2024/02
2 https://resources.youscience.com/rs/806-BFU-539/images/HigherEd_DenmarkTech_CaseStudy.pdf
3 https://resources.youscience.com/rs/806-BFU-539/images/GOSA_Full_Report.pdf