The College and Career Center is switching to college planning platform Maia Learning this year for Palo Alto High School juniors.
The district announced the switch in December, with a webinar for both students and parents about the platform, and is in use now.
This new program will also be implemented for freshman and sophomores to start with post-high school exploration College and Career advisor Sandra Cernobori said.
Cernobori said the district signed a contract with Maia Learning for juniors as a trial, to work out challenges with the platform early on.
Maia Learning has features that help students, including searching for colleges, programs and careers.
“Features like when you put something in your “considering” list, you’re able to see how many letters of recommendation the college needs,” Cernobori said.
According to Cernobori, there were many problems with Naviance, the school’s previous college planning platform, including the customer service and data on the platform being outdated.
“It [Maia] has so far been very helpful looking at colleges and looking at their admission rates,” junior Merise Boda said.
Boda shared many of the same frustrations Cernobori had with Naviance, and enjoys the switch to a new platform because of its simplicity.
“Naviance was insanely complicated to use, like I could not do anything,” Boda said. “But with Maia Learning everything is all in one spot, it’s very easy to use, it’s very simple.”
