Major Clarity
What is Major Clarity?
A College & Career Readiness platform for ALL students!
MajorClarity is a web-based service designed to assist you in college and career planning. It is a comprehensive website that you can use to help in making decisions about careers, colleges, scholarships, and goals.
MajorClarity is linked with your campus so that your counselors, teachers, and principals can analyze data about your future plans. It also lets us share information with you about meetings and events, local scholarship opportunities, and other web resources for college and career information.
You can log into Major Clarity through your Aledo ISD student launchpad!
Major Clarity Resources
Transcripts and Letters of Recommendation (12th grade only)
Connecting Your Common Application (12th grade only)
Common Application Evaluator (12th grade only)
How to Use Major Clarity for College and Career Preparation & Planning
MY PORTFOLIO
The My Portfolio link provides an overview of your work in MajorClarity. You can see your progress toward completing the steps that we have identified as important for your grade level, review your career path test drives and academic planning, as well as quickly see your favorite colleges, scholarships, careers, CTE Pathways, and more.
STUDENT JOURNAL
The Student Journal page allows you to make notes and write down your goals and thoughts during your exploration process.
ASSESSMENTS
The Assessments page is where you can complete the Personality and Learning Styles Assessments and learn a little more about your results. If you want, you can even reset the assessment and try again. In fact, we encourage you to do this at least once a year.
CAREER EXPLORATION
After completing the Personality and Learning Styles Assessments students can visit the Career Exploration page to explore hundreds of different careers. You can watch interviews by real professionals or try an activity to learn by doing. Make sure to record your rating for each interview and activity to update your FitScore. You can also favorite Career Paths and Occupations. You will find all of your rating and favorites in your Portfolio.
POSTSECONDARY EXPLORATION
The Postsecondary Exploration tab is a place where can research colleges by name, program, state, and even type of college. When you click on the colleges you will find more information about entrance requirements, cost of attending, and the popular programs at that school. There's even an embedded link that will take you to the college's website and one that will assist you in calculating the costs of college. Trust us, thee a lot more to it than tuition, books, and housing.
FINANCIAL RESOURCES
There is no need for you to pay for expensive scholarship searches or to visit secondary websites. In MajorClarity you have access to over 20,000 scholarships.
RESUME BUILDER
Start building your resume. The Resume Builder tab walks you through the questions you will need answer to create a real resume. When you have finished click on "View Resume" to open a PDF. It's a great place to start.
APPLICATION CENTER
The steps to completing college applications can get confusing. Use the Application Center tab to track your progress as you select colleges and complete your applications.
MICRO-CREDENTIALS (GRADES 9-12 ONLY)
MajorClarity offers a variety of Micro-credential badges that students can earn to add to your portfolio and your resume. While these are not industry-based credentials, they will provide you the opportunity to learn more about a variety of topics. There are currently seven micro-credentials available. You are welcome to complete as many of the micro-credentials as you want.