About cultivr
est. 2026 · made with counselors and students
College applications usually live in fifteen places at once. Essays in Google Docs. Deadlines in Common App. Activity lists in a spreadsheet that nobody updates. Reflections — the ones that actually become essays — locked in students' heads.
Cultivr is one quiet workspace where those pieces sit together. Students capture what's happening as it happens; the app organizes it into a profile they and their counselor can actually use; and when application season opens, the raw material is already there.
cul·tiv·r /ˈkəltəvər/ noun
A workspace for the four-year stretch between curiosity and college — somewhere to log what you do, talk through what it means, and arrive at application season with a record worth reading.
How it works
three habits, one workspace
The journal
Activities, awards, classes, college lists, and reflections live in one structured workspace. Add an entry the moment it happens — what you did, why it mattered, what changed — and senior year you'll have four years of evidence instead of four years of guessing.
Voice sessions
Open voice mode and think out loud the way you would with a counselor. Cultivr listens, asks the right follow-ups, and saves the moments you'd otherwise forget — the offhand sentence that becomes an essay opener, the worry that points to a real fit question.
Readiness
Three rings — Explore, Distinguish, Reflect — show how balanced your profile actually is. Underneath, a weekly view turns reflection into action: the supplement to draft, the recommender to ask, the activity to log.
A week in the journal
You don't need to write essays in November. You need to keep a record now, so November is just editing.
Logged the robotics regional comeback
Two-minute voice memo. Saved as a seed for Common App essay #2.
Talked through Tufts vs. Brown for 14 minutes
Three follow-up questions queued for Mr. Alvarez. One essay opener saved.
Added AP Research hours · +12 this week
Microplastics project now tagged as Academic + Community.
Weekly review
Three actions for next week — supplement draft, ask Coach Liu, revise essay seed.
What you can expect
By the time supplements open, your activities are written, your stories are catalogued, and your essay seeds are ready to expand.
Counselors arrive to context, not catch-up. Sessions start with what's actually open instead of what you did three weeks ago.
The pieces — activities, awards, essays, college list — connect to a few clear themes instead of reading like a checklist.
Start your journal