College Application Checklist and Tracker Spreadsheet, Deadline and Essay Planner for High School Seniors, Google Sheets + Excel + PDF

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This College Application Tracker is a Google Sheets and Excel spreadsheet, plus a printable planner, that puts every school, deadline, essay and letter in one place.

Applying to grad school? See our Grad School Application Tracker.

Applying to college means juggling a dozen portals, deadlines (ED, EA, RD), supplemental essays, recommendation letters, test scores and financial aid forms. This College Application Tracker & Planner gives you one simple system: build your list, plan every deadline, apply, and decide. It comes as a printable planner AND an auto-calculating spreadsheet, so you can use paper, digital, or both.

★ YOU'LL RECEIVE 5 FILES ★
1. College-Application-Tracker-Planner-US-Letter.pdf: 16-page printable planner
2. College-Application-Tracker-Planner-Tablet.pdf: the same planner as a tablet PDF with tappable tabs
3. College-Application-Tracker-Spreadsheet.xlsx: tracker for Google Sheets & Excel (now with an Aid Offers tab)
4. Google-Sheets-Link.pdf: one-click "Make a copy" link for Google Sheets
5. START-HERE.pdf: setup guide + BONUS printable Application Deadline Checklist

★ PRINTABLE PLANNER: 16 PAGES (US Letter 8.5" x 11") ★
• Cover page with your name, class year, school and counselor
• How to Use guide + status color key
• Application Roadmap (spring of junior year to spring of senior year)
• My Applicant Profile: scores, activities, honors
• My College List (22 schools) with reach / target / likely
• College Comparison Chart: 5 schools side by side
• Application Tracker: 2 pages, 48 entries
• School Detail Sheet with a 12-item requirements checklist (print one per school)
• Essay Planner for your main essay and supplements
• Recommendation Letter Tracker + what to give each recommender
• Tests & College Visits log with tour questions
• Undated monthly Deadline Calendar page (print one for each month)
• Admissions Results & financial aid log
• Making My Decision: compare your top 3 offers
• Notes page (dot grid)

★ TABLET PDF ★
• The same pages as a tablet PDF: 3:4 portrait (768 x 1024 pt) with a tappable tab column on every page, an index page and a Back to Index button
• Works in PDF annotation apps that support hyperlinks. Internal page links only
• Undated: write your own dates
• Import steps are on page 3 of the tablet PDF and in START-HERE.pdf

★ SPREADSHEET (Google Sheets & Excel) ★
• Dashboard: colleges on your list, applications submitted, acceptances, due in the next 7 / 30 days, overdue, total application fees, lowest net cost among acceptances, status chart
• Colleges tab for 60 schools with dropdowns for plan (ED, ED II, EA, REA, RD, Rolling), reach/target/likely and status
• "Days Left" counts down by itself. Rows turn gold 14 days before a deadline and coral at 7 days, and stop counting once submitted or decided
• Net Cost fills in automatically (cost of attendance minus grants and scholarships)
• NEW Aid Offers tab: compare up to 8 aid offers side by side, with cost of attendance, gift aid, loans and work-study kept separate. Net price = cost of attendance minus gift aid; loans and work-study are shown as their own totals. For organizing offers only. Not financial advice. Aid offers vary and can change; verify every figure with each school's financial aid office.
• Essays tab (100 rows) and Recommenders tab with letter due-date countdown
• Grey cells fill in automatically, so you always know where to type
• 3 example rows that aren't counted on the Dashboard; delete them anytime

★ PERFECT FOR ★
High school juniors & seniors · Parents helping with applications · Counselors and tutors (one license per student) · Transfer students · A thoughtful senior-year gift

★ PAIRS WITH ★
Our Scholarship Tracker & Application Planner (https://www.etsy.com/listing/4594093349/scholarship-tracker-spreadsheet), or save with the College & Scholarship Bundle.

★ HOW IT WORKS ★
1. Purchase. Your files are ready instantly.
2. Download them from You > Purchases & Reviews (or the link in your Etsy email).
3. Print the PDF. For the spreadsheet, open Google-Sheets-Link.pdf and click "Make my copy" to get your own Google Sheets copy in one click, or open the .xlsx in Excel. Full steps are in START-HERE.pdf.

★ PLEASE NOTE ★
• This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.
• The printable PDF is not fillable. For writing on a tablet, use the tablet PDF in a PDF annotation app that supports hyperlinks.
• Colors may vary slightly by screen and printer.
• Always confirm deadlines and requirements on each college's official website.
• For personal use by one student. Please don't resell or share the files.

Designed by me with the help of AI-assisted design tools.
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