Tell Claire about your child. She'll help you choose the right prep school.
Claire
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Tell Claire about your family once. Watch it turn into a shortlist.
Claire
Admissions advisor
Your journey
From first question to confident decision.
1Tell Claire
Share what matters to your family — budget, priorities, what your kid actually needs. One conversation, no forms, two minutes.
2Meet matches
See schools that actually fit, ranked against verified tuition and aid data across 142 schools in 29 states.
3Deep dive
Ask Claire anything about a school — curriculum, culture, financial aid specifics — the things the website doesn't say out loud.
4Compare
Put your shortlist side by side: tuition, aid, and the true cost of attendance, not just the sticker price.
5Decide & prepare
Get a recap packet for your shortlist, then interview prep and financial aid timelines before you apply.
The widest honest view.
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The things a brochure will never say out loud.
The real cost is never the tuition figure
Families spend $15,000–$25,000 more per year than the published number. Claire projects the true four-year cost for every school on your list.
Ask what it really costs →Prep school isn't right for every strong student
Academic strength alone doesn't predict fit. Claire asks about temperament and independence before she names a single school.
Ask if it's right for your kid →Nobody asks the right first question
Most families jump to 'which school' before answering 'should we even do this.' Claire starts where the decision actually starts.
Start that conversation →Claire doesn't stop at a list of names.
Your recap packet
- Your family profile, in plain language
- Your shortlist with verified tuition and aid
- An interview & visit-day checklist
Then she switches to prep mode
- Mock admissions interviews
- Visit-day questions the website won't answer
- Financial aid timeline and essay brainstorming
An independent analyst costs $4,000+. Claire costs $12.98 once — and your first questions are free.
Start asking →Built by a student who lived it.
I'm Ryan, 18, a current New England boarding student. My family made this decision with rankings, brochures, and guesswork. Claire is the honest conversation we needed first — about cost, fit, and whether to do this at all.
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Family experiences
We're brand new — you'd be one of our first families.
PrepFinder just launched, so there's no roundup of reviews to show you yet, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than fake one. What you get instead: a founder who went through this exact decision a year ago, and an honest conversation with Claire today. If PrepFinder helps your family, we'd love for you to be one of the first reviews here.
I built Claire to have the conversation my family needed before any of this started.
Not to sell you on prep school — I'll let the experience do that. Just to help you think clearly, ask the right questions, and walk into this process better prepared than we were.