Youws – Insider's Guide to Your Dream College

Why choose us

Peer-to-Peer Targeted Counseling, Lifelong Professional Connection.

Up-to-Date and Targeted

Peer-to-peer counseling from current students of the particular college and major you are targeting.

Mentor and Network for Life

You and your counselor share similar career aspirations. Your connection with your counselor is forever!

High Quality

Our counselors are handpicked from Universities of California and other top universities.

Affordable

Our counseling services are more cost-effective than traditional private counseling services in the market.

Competitive Majors

Many of our counselors are in the most competitive majors, including computer science, engineering, and pre-med.

Equity

We are passionate about helping women and minorities in underrepresented fields such as technology and medicine.

Programs

Specially created to reach your goal.

Insider's Guide

Insider's Guide is our flagship program, providing you with the most up-to-date insider’s information regarding every aspect of your dream college.

Backdoor Campus Tour

Campus through the backdoor is a much more in-depth and personalized tour than the typical tours hosted by colleges.

Essay Review

Our essay review program takes a holistic approach in order to help you present the “whole you” to college admission officers.

Application Review

Through our application review program, our counselors conduct an in-depth review of your entire application package.

Coding Tutoring

Youws Counselors can help you with your CS related classes, computer science concepts, school assignments, and much more.

Youws Counselors

Meet our amazing counselors!

Our counselors are handpicked from top schools and ready to help you succeed.

Having gone through the application process ourselves, we understand your struggle. You’ll have a less stressful and more exciting experience working with us!

Klaire Li

UC Berkeley

Klaire is a junior studying Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Klaire attended high school at Los Altos High School, CA. On campus...

Derek Hua

UCLA

Derek is a junior studying Computer Engineering at UCLA in the Fast Track to Success program. He attended high school at Los Altos High School, CA. On campus...

Jamsheed Mistri

UC Berkeley

Jamsheed is a senior at UC Berkeley majoring in Computer Science. Jamsheed graduated from Los Altos High School. In the past...

Michelle Zhu

Carnegie Mellon

Michelle is a junior at Carnegie Mellon majoring in CS. She graduated from Los Altos High School, where she participated in FRC and Botball robotics. At CMU...

Nidhee Reddy

UMich

Nidhee is a junior majoring in Physics and on the Premedical track at the University of Michigan. Nidhee attended Los Altos High School in California. She is a part of...

Shnayjaah Jeanty

Columbia

Shnayjaah is an incoming freshman studying Political Science and Creative Writing on full scholarship at Columbia University. Shnayjaah attends high school at Flanagan High, FL. On campus, ...

Amber Yeh

UCSB

Amber is a first-year student studying Economics and Accounting at UC Santa Barbara. She graduated from Aragon High School as a valedictorian ...

Amanda Li

UNM

Amanda is a senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in a combined BA/MD program. She attended Los Alamos High School in New Mexico ...

Flexible Schedule

You decide when and how often you want to set up counseling sessions with clients.

Make Good Money

Earn good money by sharing your knowledge with others. Good opportunity to earn extra money to pay college tuition.

Share Your Knowledge

Share your knowledge with students who aspire to be part of the school you are proud of.

Improve Leadership Skills

Train and improve upon leadership and mentorship skills that will help you later in your career.

Promote Good Causes

We promote women in tech and do our best to support and represent the underrepresented groups in STEM.

Network for Life

Get to know and connect with other counselors and students, who will be at the top of your shared fields.

Youwssay

Jumpstart your essays with AI!

Don’t know where to start or how to structure your essays? Too many colleges to apply to and too many essays to write? Tired of trimming the same essay for different length requirements?

Youwssay uses cutting-edge generative AI technologies to write college essays in just seconds. Simply tell us your story, and watch Youwssay do the rest! The essays will reflect on who you are and make you stand out with our Youws Framework. We are constantly adding more colleges to the list. If there is a particular college/prompt you'd like to see, let us know in the contact form. Please send us feedback. We'd love to hear from you. Enjoy!

Youwscore APP

Want to see your chances?

Youwscore app estimates your chance of getting into your dream colleges based on the most up-to-date admissions data and criteria. We are constantly adding more colleges to the list. If there is a particular one you'd like to see, let us know in the contact form. We're improving the accuracy by adding more features and machine learning models. Please send us feedback. We'd love to hear from you! Enjoy!

What parents and students say

"I felt like I had lots of floating application parts that I was really proud of, but I didn’t know how to put them together. Youws really helped me get my whole application packaged together seamlessly. I’m excited to announce that I will be attending one of my dream schools, UCLA, in the fall!"

I like the fact that the Youws Counselors are only a few years older and I feel more connected to them. I feel more intimidated by the normal counselors since they are much older and their knowledge seems to be more outdated.

I really want to get into the computer science major and become a software engineer, but my parents can't help me because they don't know anything about coding. I like Youws because they have counselors in top CS programs, and they can tutor me in classes like AP CS.

We didn’t expect that it’s so much harder to get into UCs now compared to when I went to Cal, especially for computer science applicants.

Programming skill is increasing more important for non-technical employees like me. But it's hard to follow many of the online courses because they are not tailored to my needs. And private tutoring is expensive. Youws' one-on-one Python class is perfect because it can be adjusted to my pace and is cost effective.

My college counselor said I’m a good fit for Emory University. I got rejected. Turns out she told several of my friends the same thing and they all got rejected. Looking back at it now, Emory University was definitely not my fit.

I only saw my counselor as a gateway to college so I didn’t want to tell them about things like classes that I was doing poorly in, etc.

Klaire Li

Co-Founder, Chief Counselor, Software Engineer

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Aiji Li

Co-Founder, Sales and Marketing Lead, Software Engineer

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We are here to help!

Any questions, feedback or concerns regarding the company and the programs? Want to become a Youws Counselor? Feel free to reach out to us.