Your application starts years before you apply.
Every prerequisite, every hour and every letter, tracked as you go against what the schools on your list actually require. Then the cycle opens and it is already filled in.
Which are you applying to
$11.99 a month, or $239.99 once for five years. No free tier and no trial, whether you are a sophomore or mid-cycle.
The same problem, three times over
You are not disorganised. The process is.
Every one of these paths asks for years of coursework, hours and relationships, and then asks you to account for all of it in a few weeks. None of them give you anywhere to keep it in the meantime. That is the whole of what this is for, across all 647 programmes we track.
Requirements, per school
Not a generic checklist. What each school on your list published, read off its own page, with the fallback labelled as a fallback wherever a school publishes nothing.
Hours somebody will vouch for
Logged as you go, split the way the committees split them, and confirmable by the supervisor who was actually there rather than reconstructed three years later.
Essays you write once
The same question arrives from a dozen schools under a dozen limits. Keep one answer and adapt it, instead of rewriting from memory at midnight.
The best time to start was your first semester.
The second best is now. Setting it up takes about three minutes, and it is the same account whether you apply next year or in three.
From $11.99 a month. The five-year plan is one payment of $239.99 and never renews.
Buying it for someone else? Give it as a gift, no account needed.