Decide, then move.
A single-semester decision engine for the student who has run out of time to be undecided. Not compressed exploration, and not a tour of options: twelve structured weeks with one deliverable, a direction chosen on evidence, and a plan to move on it.
12 weeks · One semester · Any-semester entry
A decision and a campaign plan. Nothing more is promised, on purpose.
The Sprint does not promise an outcome, and it does not promise that every door will still be open. For a late-deciding student some doors have already closed: certain recruiting clocks, certain structured programs. The Sprint's first job, in Week One, is to show exactly which doors are shut, as fact rather than fear, so that every week after is spent on doors that are actually open. No student should discover in Week Eleven what an honest calendar could have told them in Week One.
Evidence
- ●Week One: the door-map, exactly which doors are still open, as fact
- ●The student’s real runway read against every deadline that matters
- ●Leanings put on the table with the evidence for and against each
Contact
- ●Structured contact with professionals in the live options
- ●Real work samples from the leading directions: tested, not imagined
- ●The options narrowed by what the evidence and the conversations showed
Commit
- ●A direction chosen on evidence, and owned
- ●The campaign plan to move on it, built for the doors actually open
- ●A finish before finals, with the plan in hand
Twelve weeks inside a roughly fifteen-week semester, on purpose: the slack is the product working. A family can enroll as late as week three and the student still finishes before finals.
The student with no direction and no time to drift
At any point in the arc. The scarcity may be a semester or two years; the Sprint reads the runway that remains and works from it.
The transfer or late arrival
Who needs to convert uncertainty into a plan in one term, not three years.
The senior who must choose now
The extreme case, not the definition. Open-ended exploration assumes runway they no longer have; the Sprint assumes the opposite and is built around it.
Until now this student has had nothing honest offered to them. Open-ended exploration assumes runway they don't have. The Sprint assumes the opposite, that the scarcity of time is the problem, and is built around it.
Why the Sprint Exists
Twelve weeks to a direction.
Have more runway? The Exploratory Path runs the same evidence-first method across the full three years.