College Tool App Tour: Benefits, School Search, Overseas, Cost of Living and the Printed Plan
The tour shows how a family's VA education benefits fit into one plan and the order to use them.
Your benefits: Post-9/11 GI Bill®, Chapter 35 DEA, the Fry Scholarship, and Yellow Ribbon, plus transferred months and scholarships, fit into one plan. Find the school: browse any state, or type a school, a city, or the short name families actually use. Studying overseas: foreign school, a U.S. university's overseas branch, or a study-abroad term switches to the VA's foreign-school flat rate. Cost of living: you amend the variables until the picture reflects your actual situation. The roadmap: the tool tells you if your entitlement covers it, what the income looks like, and where the gaps are. The printed plan: your inputs organized into estimates with the official references, for your records and review.
The app tour, page by page: https://wegotyou1776.com/how-it-works
College Tool on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/college-tool/id6777793101
College Tool on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wegotthis.collegetool
We Got You 1776, LLC is a Veteran-founded education-technology company that builds tools helping military families plan their education benefits.
College Tool is built from official sources but is not an official source itself, and it cannot cover every case, so use it as a starting point for your plan. VA decides eligibility and benefits: confirm your plan with VA and your School Certifying Official, and read the sources that apply to you.
Independent planning tool from We Got You 1776, LLC. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Defense. Not financial, legal, tax, or benefits advice. GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government website at benefits.va.gov/gibill.
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College Tool. The app tour. It shows how a family’s VA education benefits fit into one plan and the order to use them.
Your benefits. Everything in one plan. Post-9/11 GI Bill®, Chapter 35 DEA, the Fry Scholarship, and Yellow Ribbon, plus transferred months and scholarships, fit into one plan.
Find the school. FSU, UGA, Ole Miss. Browse any state, or type a school, a city, or the short name families actually use. Each one carries its housing figure and its Yellow Ribbon participation.
Studying overseas. Abroad, by the VA’s rate. Foreign school, a U.S. university’s overseas branch, or a study-abroad term: it switches to the VA’s foreign-school flat rate.
Your budget. Cost of living. A cost-of-living estimator sits on top of the benefit math. You amend the variables until the picture reflects your actual situation.
Mix and match. Home, California, a semester in Tokyo. Build your path one phase at a time. Each phase is a school, benefit, and how long you stay.
The roadmap. Where the gaps are. The tool tells you if your entitlement covers it, what the income looks like, and where the gaps are.
The order. The order that gets the most. If you hold more than one benefit, the sequence changes the total, often by thousands. The app maps it.
Your plan, printed. With its official references. It prints your plan, your inputs organized into estimates with the official references, for your records and review.
Check it yourself. It shows its work. The rates, rules, and figures link to their official VA sources, so a family can check the math themselves. The output is a starting point for the conversation with a VA representative or a School Certifying Official.
Pricing. Free to start. A one-time purchase unlocks the full phase approach. No account. No tracking. What you type stays on your phone unless you share it.
College Tool. Plan around your education benefits. wegotyou1776.com/gi-bill-app. College Tool is built from official sources but is not an official source itself, and it cannot cover every case, so use it as a starting point for your plan. VA decides eligibility and benefits: confirm your plan with VA and your School Certifying Official, and read the sources that apply to you. Independent planning tool from We Got You 1776, LLC. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Defense. Not financial, legal, tax, or benefits advice. GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government website at benefits.va.gov/gibill.
We Got You 1776 is independent. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Defense, and nothing it publishes is financial, legal, tax or benefits advice.