1. MyRoad™ The College Board’s college and career planning web site.
MyRoad is the College Board’s dynamic web site that guides students in planning their futures. With MyRoad, students can:
Take a research-validated self-assessment test to help them determine their career interests
Research careers and college majors that they want to pursue
Search for colleges and identify those that would fit them best
Read articles on and by professionals and students who have gone down paths similar to those in which they are interested
Develop a personal portfolio, resume, and college application essays
MyRoad™
The College Board’s college and career planning web site.

2. How Can Students and Schools Acquire MyRoad Accounts?
PSAT/NMSQT®
All high school students who take the PSAT/NMSQT receive free MyRoad accounts. These accounts will last for the entirety of their high school careers. Schools that administer the PSAT/NMSQT also receive free MyRoad educator access. Visit for more information.
CollegeEd®
All students* who participate in CollegeEd (for any of the editions from 7th to 12th grades) receive free MyRoad accounts. These accounts will last up to the end of the school year. Schools that purchase CollegeEd also receive free MyRoad educator access that will last up to the end of the school year. For pricing/ordering information: us at
School-Wide Site Subscription
Schools or districts may purchase MyRoad site subscriptions to provide access to ALL their students*. For pricing/ordering information: us at
Individual Student Subscriptions
Students* may also purchase their own individual subscriptions for $ These accounts last for one year. The annual renewal fee is $ To order, go to and click Sign Up Today.
All high school students who take the PSAT/NMSQT receive free MyRoad accounts as part of their My College Quickstart online college planning package. These students are able to utilize My College QuickStart and MyRoad until they graduate high school. Educators do not get access to My College QuickStart but do receive a MyRoad educator access code for staff to create MyRoad accounts. MyRoad educator accounts related to the PSAT/NMSQT do not expire.
All students who participate in CollegeEd courses for grades 7 to 12 also receive free MyRoad accounts. These accounts will last up to the end of the school year. This offer also applies to the CollegeEd High School edition school planners that are provided by Premier Agendas. Only those students who are 13 and older may create MyRoad accounts.
Students may also purchase individual MyRoad memberships. These memberships cost $19.95 for the first year and $16.95 for every following year that they renew. Individual memberships last for one year.
* Note: Only students who are 13 and older may create MyRoad accounts.

3. MyRoad Online Resources for Schools
Download free resources to encourage students to utilize MyRoad at:
Lesson Plans: For Each of MyRoad’s Primary Sections
MyRoad Features Mapped to ASCA National Standards
PSAT/NMSQT and MyRoad Majors
MyRoad Parental Consent Form: For Students Under the Age of 13 (also available in Spanish)
The PSAT/NMSQT offers plenty of free online resources that are available through our web site. Navigate to the PSAT/NMSQT for Educators web site and click on the PSAT/NMSQT Downloads link on the left-hand side of the screen.
On our site we provide:
Guides on how to best use MyRoad and how to set up accounts
A document that maps MyRoad features to the American School Counselor Association standards
Flyers and posters on how to set up MyRoad accounts that may be easily distributed to students who took the PSAT
A letter template that may be mail-merged and can be used by schools or districts to notify parents of their children’s access to and use of MyRoad.
And, full lesson plans that may be used for all of MyRoad’s major sections.

4. More Information/ Technical Support
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5. Setting up a PSAT/NMSQT My College Quickstart and MyRoad Account
Quickstart access codes offer students the most convenient method of setting up their accounts
PSAT/NMSQT Score Reports provide students with their access codes
School PSAT/NMSQT Coordinators will also receive a roster that includes student names and their corresponding access codes (included in Score Report shipments)
Quickstart access codes offer students the most convenient method of setting up their accounts. This is not the only method, though. If a student loses his or her access code, the student may also enter in their personal information in order to set up their account. Also, after February, 1, 2007, students can enter identifying information to access My College QuickStart without entering an access code.
PSAT/NMSQT Score Reports provide students with their access codes.
PSAT/NMSQT Coordinators will receive the Roster of Student Scores and Plans that includes student names and their corresponding access codes.

6. High school students who take the PSAT/NMSQT are directed to access My College QuickStart at This is the home page.
Middle school students are also directed to to obtain online test questions with complete answer explanations ONLY. Middle school students do NOT receive My College QuickStart.

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The process for setting up a My College QuickStart account is similar to the process for establishing a normal CollegeBoard.com account. In fact, once a student has a Quickstart account, his or her account will also serve as a CollegeBoard.com account.
If the student already has an account with CollegeBoard.com, then he or she would enter his or her username and password on this screen and click on “Sign In”.
If the student does NOT already have a CollegeBoard.com account, then he or she would click on “Sign Up” under “Not a Member Yet?”.

8. On this screen, the student should select “Student” and then click “Submit”.

9. Next, the student enters his or her personal information on the Student Sign Up page.
NOTE the following:
If a student loses his or her username or password, then he or she must have entered a valid address on this screen in order to retrieve it via later.
If a school does not allow the use of within the school, we still recommend that students enter their personal addresses into the field requesting that information.
If a student does not have a valid address, then he or she may want to use a parent’s or even a counselor’s address. Your school may even want to set up a special address to use with those students who do not have addresses.
We also recommend that you log the usernames and passwords that the students establish for themselves so that this information is easily accessed in case they lose their account information.
If a student comes across a warning that their address is already in use by another account, they are still allowed to set up their account using that address. All that he or she needs to do is to click on the link labeled “Continue” located below the warning.

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Once a student has entered his or her personal information, he or she has created a CollegeBoard.com account.
The student still needs to establish a My College Quickstart account, though, and the next screen to which he or she will come will do just that.
The student will enter his or her access code (on the PSAT/NMSQT Score Report) into the appropriate field requesting that information and then clicks on “Submit”.

11. If a student does not have his or her access code, the student may still be able to establish his or her account through this page. They will simply enter personal information (such as name, mailing address, etc.). This information will be matched to the information taken from the each student’s PSAT/NMSQT answer sheet.

12. After having successfully establishing the account, the student will be brought to his or her My College Quickstart home page. From here, they may access the four main components:
My Online Score Report
My SAT Study Plan
My College Matches
My Major and Career Matches

13. By clicking on My College Matches or My Major & Career Matches, the student will be able to link to MyRoad (bottom right of screen). If the student indicated the major in which he or she is interested in on their PSAT/NMSQT answer sheet, this page will offer links to specific sections within MyRoad related to that major as well as related career fields.

14. PSAT/NMSQT Extra: www.collegeboard.com/psatextra
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My Organizer:
Logging Into MyRoad
As you just learned, high school students can access MyRoad through their My College QuickStart accounts. When these students come back to access MyRoad later, they can go to My College QuickStart again OR they may go directly to myroad.com and sign in with their same user name and password.
Also, ALL students who have MyRoad accounts may log back into MyRoad through either myroad.com or through their Collegeboard.com My Organizer account.
Students who have taken the PSAT/NMSQT may log into MyRoad through the 2 above places, or they may also log into MyRoad through collegeboard.com/psatextra.

15. Once students have logged into MyRoad, they are brought to their My Plan page. In My Plan, students develop their own personal portfolios and resumes.
Here, they can assemble the information that they will need for their college applications, brainstorm ideas for application essays, and record their interests and accomplishments for both college and career planning.

16. Students may enter their personal account information into the Personal section of My Plan. They may enter their name and contact information as well as the schools they attend.
They may also review a brief synopsis of their personality type, as determined by the Personality Profiler (once they have taken a self-assessment test).

17. My Plan’s Objectives section provides students with a space to may enter their goals and interests as they relate to majors, colleges and careers. As students explore these three areas within MyRoad, they may mark any colleges, majors, or careers as high, medium or no interest to them.
These specific majors, colleges, and careers will then be listed within their corresponding sections of Objectives, below the goals that each student has personally entered.

18. Students may record their academic history within My Plan’s Education section. Here they can list the schools they attended, the level of education that they completed at each school, and the GPA’s they received at these schools. Students may also itemize the courses they took at each school, when they took each course, the grade they received, and the teacher’s name for the class.
The Education section also allows students to record the major tests that they have taken, such as the PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, ACT, or AP tests, as well as the dates that they took each test and the scores that they received.

19. The Experience section within My Plan allows students to record their work experiences for their resumes. They may provide detailed information on each workplace, the dates of the employment, and a description of the job. Within this section, students may also list those skills of which they are the most proud.

20. My Plan provides students with the Activities and Honors Section, into which they may record their accomplishments.
Under activities, students may list any extracurricular activities in which they participate(d), the number of years that they participated in each activity, and the skill level they reached while performing them.
Students may also record those subjects and activities in which they have the most interest.
Within Awards & Honors, students may enter any awards and special acknowledgements that they have received and the dates on which they received them.

21. The Self-Portrait section of My Plan is a space into which students may enter their personal self-reflections.
My Ideal job allows students to describe the occupation that interests them the most. In this area, students can write what they feel would be the organization in which they would fit the best, a brief description of the job itself, and what they think a typical work day would be like.
Self-Portrait offers a section to students to list their mentors. They may describe them and reflect upon why they chose them.
Students can use My A-List to record their favorite things, their dislikes, and their top life goals.
Students may also practice and prepare for college application essays with the My Essays section.

22. ID Me provides students with the ORA Personality Profiler self-assessment test and serves as an excellent launch point for students to begin their major and career planning process. The ORA Personality Profiler comes in two forms: (1) the student version which is geared to individuals from thirteen to fifteen years of age, and (2) the adult version which is geared toward individuals aged sixteen and older. The primary difference in the assessments is the context in which the questions are asked.
The Personality Profiler is 125 questions in length and will take between twenty and thirty minutes to complete. Responses will be automatically saved when you click the next button to move between pages; also, students may begin the assessment, leave MyRoad, and then sign back in and finish it without losing their answers.

23. While the ORA Personality Profiler is a thorough self-assessment test, those students who want to begin their planning right away have the option of alternately beginning the ID Me Quickstarts section.

24. Each QuickStart, one for Majors and one for Careers, is a short survey that matches students’ interests to majors and careers. After taking each survey, students are offered several recommended majors and careers that they may begin researching.
The drawback to the Quickstarts is that they will not provide a full personality assessment summary as they are not as accurate or thorough as the ORA Personality Profiler.

25. The ORA Personality Profiler is MyRoad’s full personality and self-assessment test.
[This may be an opportunity to ask the district whether they pay for the Myers Briggs assessment for their students. The ORA Personality Profiler offers them the same validated insight into their students’ interests].
After having completed the test, students will be provided with a personality profile that describes their strengths, learning preferences, motivations, and development opportunities.
It also provides a list of recommended majors and careers with which students may begin the process of college and career exploration.
The test may be taken over as many times as students wish.

26. Within MyRoad’s Explore Majors, students can research in depth the major academic fields that they are considering in college.
Students may begin their exploration by either jumping into this section of MyRoad, or by clicking on the results of their QuickStart or ORA Personality Profiler surveys.
In order to facilitate exploration, MyRoad divides the world of collegiate majors into 6 major sections: Engineering, Life Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies and Social Sciences.

27. When students find a major that interests them, they can click on that major’s link to see that major’s description. The first page they will see for each major of interest will be the Overview page. Each major’s Overview provides a brief description of the field, explains its importance, the debates that keep it lively, and any related research that is currently taking place.

28. If a student clicks on the High School Courses link within a major’s section, he or she comes to a page that offers suggestions on how to prepare in high school for pursuing that major in college. This information includes the types of courses one should take in high school, the extracurricular activities that would prove useful, and college admission tips.

29. College Courses provides a more detailed and practical description of the major and requirements for attaining an associate’s degree, bachelor’s degree, and graduate degree.
Here, students will find for each major:
What courses they should expect to take in college
The kind of advanced studies into which they can enter
Fields relating to the particular major
The opportunities that lie outside of the classroom.

30. Career Connection serves as a bridge between the Explore Majors and Research Careers sections of MyRoad.
Students may find and explore the possible careers to which a particular major may lead if they receive an associate’s, a bachelor’s, a master’s, or a doctoral degree.

31. How they came upon the conclusion to major in that field
My goal is to work for NASA as an aeronautical engineer.
The Perspectives section for each major offers reflections from students who have already traveled down the paths within that particular field at college. It provides brief quotes, suggestions, and descriptions of what a student can expect of that major during college. Inside, the commenting students explain:
How they came upon the conclusion to major in that field
What the course work is like and what it demands
The challenges that may be encountered
Simple pieces of advice
What one can do after college with a degree in that major

32. MyRoad offers over 450 occupations that students may explore
MyRoad offers over 450 occupations that students may explore. These careers are divided into the following 8 categories: Arts & Media, Public and Social Services, Business Specialties, Research & Education, General Business, Technology, Medicine & Health and Trades & Services.
Again, students may begin their exploration by either jumping into this section of MyRoad, or by clicking on the results of their QuickStarts or ORA Personality Profiler surveys.
Not only does MyRoad provide information on each career, but it demonstrates what academic paths will lead to them, as well as their educational requirements.

33. The Career Overview page offers a broad description of each particular career, including:
The skills that the career requires
The responsibilities that it includes
The pros and cons of working in that field

34. The Where You’ll Work page will give students general ideas of the types of places and environments in which they may work within a particular field.

35. Outlook presents an economic forecast of a particular career
Outlook presents an economic forecast of a particular career. Students will learn if employment opportunities are plentiful, if they are expected to remain so, and what factors will contribute to their rise or fall.

36. A career’s Perspectives page utilizes interviews with professionals in the field to describe:
A typical work day
Their salary
Their responsibilities
How they began in their field
What they love most about their job

37. I have always been interested in art history, and I would like to work an art museum one day.
Students may click on any of the occupations in the list on the left-hand side of the screen to explore a variety of specific roles that relate to that career. Every Occupations article examines the specific responsibilities, educational and training requirements, growth potential, and compensation.
Students may also mark particular careers to indicate their interests as they peruse the site. They can mark their interests as “High”, “Medium”, or “None”. The careers that they mark as “High” and “Medium” will appear in the left-hand side of the screen whenever they enter the Research Careers section. They will also be listed in the Objectives section of My Plan.

38. Students may search for and research the colleges in which they are interested within MyRoad’s Find a College section.
Find a College contains over 3,500 two-year and four-year colleges in its database.
There are a variety of ways that students may find the colleges that are right for them.

39. The quickest way to search for colleges is with the College QuickFinder. With this tool, students simply enter the name of a particular college in which they are interested and then click on Go.
A list of all possible name matches will appear.

40. The Advanced Search section allows students to enter a variety of criteria in order to narrow their search to retrieve particular colleges that best fit their interests.
Among these criteria, students may search for:
Type of school
School location
Campus and student life characteristics
Activities and sports opportunities
Majors and academics
Admissions procedures
Tuition costs and financial aid offerings
College application deadlines

41. Once students have found a particular school in which they are interested, they may research the details and characteristics of that particular institution using its profile page.
With eight pages of information, the College Profile provides students with the facts on student life, activities, academics, admission, and costs. This is the place to find out what majors are the most popular, what types of financial assistance are available, how many students are in the first-year class, and much more. (This information comes from the College Board’s College Handbook.) Also, each College Profile contains a link to the college’s web site.

42. Once students have identified the colleges that interest them, they can use LikeFinder™ to discover even more schools that have the characteristics that they are looking for.
They type in the name of one school and then LikeFinder will find other schools with similar characteristics. Students can then control and expand the search by selecting those particular characteristics that most matter to them.

43. MyRoad’s Side-by-Side Comparison allows students to compare two or three different colleges at once.

44. Insights is MyRoad’s online magazine that contains a number of regularly updated features that bring to life the educational and career choices that we all ponder. Here, students can follow other real-life students through the process of choosing a major, a college, and a career. Students can also get advice from professionals working in the field.

45. Mentor’s Corner provides students with interviews with ground-breaking professionals working in a variety of fields. Students will hear from mentors as they share their ideas about getting started on a career path, gauging and taking risks, meeting challenges, making the most of opportunities that present themselves, and achieving success.

46. Sound Off offers advice and thoughts from current high school and college students on the topics of college preparation, choosing majors, and planning for their careers.

47. In Student Interviews, students can read their counterparts’ answers to questions about the challenges they face, the paths they have chosen, the goals they’re meeting, and the plans they’re making for the future.

48. One may follow the experiences, accomplishments and challenges of the Sound Off students as they make their way through a full academic semester.

49. One may also read articles written by some of the Sound Off students within the Speak Up! section.
These articles cover a variety of topics about navigating one’s way through college life, such as summer internships, choosing a college, other academic opportunities, campus diversity, and more.

50. Campus View gives students a look at the current goings-on within academic programs at specific colleges and universities. The articles are divided into the following categories for quick navigation: Life Sciences, Social Science, Humanities, and Physical Sciences.
Some example article titles:
The Iowa Writer’s Workshop
Geology and Geophysics at Yale
UW School of Nursing
Medill School of Journalism

51. MyRoad’s Resource Library offers articles on a variety of topics, categorized as follows:
High School Matters:
How to prepare for college
What courses to take in high school
How to choose the right college for you
How to apply for college
Higher Education:
College Majors
College Success
Graduate School
Careers:
The Job Search
Career Success
Mentoring:
Career Counseling
Mentoring
Life Skills

52. MyRoad's Hot Topics will keep students up-to-date in the current goings-on within the humanities, life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and social sciences industries.
It provides articles on the latest trends, the hottest debates, and the changes that are happening right now within the academic world.

53. More Information/ Technical Support
For technical support, ordering, billing or any other questions:
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