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Admissions/Cohort 27/Applicants/Eleanor Vance

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Eleanor Vance

Orlando, Florida

App ID: #AU-2025-4821

Tuition Balance

$12,450.00

Next payment due: Oct 15, 2025

65% Paid$23,050 Paid of $35,500
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Email Addresse.vance@example.edu
Phone Number+1 (555) 382-9102
Date of BirthNov 14, 2001 (Age 23)
NationalityUnited States

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Application Timeline

  • Application SubmittedJan 12, 2025 · 09:12 AM
  • Official Documents ReceivedJan 15, 2025 · 02:44 PM
  • Under ReviewJan 15, 2025 · 02:44 PM
  • Interview ScheduledJan 18, 2025 · Active stage
  • Final DecisionPending review resolution
Application fee paid$75.00 · ledger entry #10428
Decision recordedNoah Whitfield · accepted

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Applicants · Cohort 27

41 of 60 decided

Eleanor Vance

Interview complete · Orlando, FL

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Marcus Lee

Application submitted · 12m ago

Needs review

Ruth Adeyemi

Interview scheduled · Thu 10:00

In progress

Noah Whitfield

References received · 2 of 2

Recommend

Grace Kim

Application submitted · 3d ago

Needs review

Josiah Turner

Interview scheduled · Fri 09:00

In progress
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Interview bookedRuth Adeyemi · Thu 10:00
Admissions

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Balance

$8,837.50

Next payment Sep 1 · plan on track

Tuition charge · Plan 1 of 4+$3,112.50
Payment received · card−$3,112.50
Sibling discount applied−$500.00
Application fee+$75.00
Void · duplicate fee (reason logged)−$75.00
Every correction is a new entry · full history kept
Discount appliedSibling grant · −$500.00
Finances

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Worship & Prayer · Week 4

Reflection journal

Discussion
22/28

Psalm 63 response

File upload
18/28

Quiz · forms of prayer

Auto-graded
26/28

Peer review · call to worship

Peer review
9/28
Lesson 4.2 — Praying the Psalms · 3 parts
File submittedPsalm 63 response · Ruth A.
Classes & homework

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Transformation Group · today

94% present
Eleanor V.
Marcus L.
Ruth A.
Noah W.
Grace K.
Josiah T.
Naomi A.
Caleb B.
Rolls into standing & term reports automatically
Group saved26 of 28 present
Attendance

Take attendance in about ten seconds

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Your application · The Residency

Interview scheduled

Application submitted

Application fee paid

References — 2 of 2 received

Interview — Thu, May 8 at 10:00

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Key dates · documents · tuition — all in one login
Documents signedEnrollment agreement · Ruth A.
Student portal

Students always know where they stand

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Announcements

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Tags & saved views

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Roles & permissions

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Family & donor giving

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CSV in and out

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Switching over

Coming from another system?

Everything your office does today has a home here. We'll help you move your data over. A few things do work differently, though:

Set up with your real data

Sign up, build your programs, invite your team, and bring in your current students from a CSV, all before you decide anything.

Numbers you can trust

Every figure on every report comes straight from the ledger. We never round it, estimate it, or summarize it for you.

Ready in an afternoon

Build your own cohorts, application forms, and tuition plans. There's no onboarding project, and no call with us required.

Your data stays yours

Move your CSV in and out whenever you want. Each school's records sit in their own space at the database level, not just hidden behind a filter in the app, so a bug could never leak one school's data into another's.

Pricing

Free until you enroll students.

$35/month plus $5/month per enrolled student. Building your programs, application forms, and tuition plans costs nothing. Billing starts the day your first student enrolls.

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