Tell Waypoint your school and major, drop in your transcript, and answer a few questions. It works out your requirements and builds your path to graduation.
Advisors aren't the villains. They're buried. But when your graduation depends on one overloaded person answering one email, that's a broken system.
As an engineering student, my whole schedule hangs on prerequisites. Miss one class in the right semester and you can lose a year. So I needed my advisor: to clear holds, confirm my transfer credit counted, and check that my plan actually worked.
What I got was emails that went unanswered, follow-ups that never happened, and holds that sat on my account while registration got closer. I started keeping track of every time I didn't hear back. Eventually I had to take it above my advisor just to get things moving.
The frustrating part: most of what I needed wasn't a judgment call. It was reading a catalog, checking a transcript, and doing the prerequisite math. A computer can do that in seconds. That's when I decided to build it.
Let AI handle the routine work: degree audits, prerequisite checks, catalog questions, simple holds. Then advisors can spend their time on the conversations that actually need a human. Waypoint even writes your meeting notes so that one short meeting counts.
Sources: NACADA 2011 National Survey (median 296 advisees per full-time advisor) · EdSurge on Tyton Partners' 2018 report (65% say their advisor helped build a plan) · Civitas Learning (caseloads up to 1,000).
An unofficial transcript or degree audit works best: PDF, screenshot, or pasted text.
A few questions so the plan fits where you're headed.
Drag classes by the ⠿ handle to move them between semesters. Waypoint checks prerequisites, when classes are offered and your credit load.
See which classes in your plan you're allowed to take somewhere cheaper, what they're called there, and what your school's rules are. Some schools don't allow it at all.
Every open slot in your plan (major electives, core curriculum and free electives, including ones outside your major) with real options from your school. Tap a class to lock it into your plan.
A printable flowchart of every class, with arrows showing prerequisites, like your school's official degree plan. Pick how you want it.
Bring this to your real advisor so the meeting goes fast.