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class="tool_description">MyPlan.com helps students and professionals plan more fulfilling lives by making well-informed decisions about their education and careers. Whether you’re deciding on what college to go to, choosing a major, planning ahead for your first career, or thinking about making a career change, MyPlan.com can help you explore options and bring clarity and insight into figuring out what’s right for you. 100% independent and unbiased, MyPlan.com gives you the truth about colleges, careers and majors. Our research and data is the most comprehensive you’ll find anywhere on the subject. And, with dozens of easy-to-use tools, we’ve made getting to that information convenient, simple and fun.</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="24"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="corp_data_header">Data is king.</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="2"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/grey_line_538.gif" width="500" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="6"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tool_description">MyPlan.com is dedicated to providing the most accurate and up-to-date information you can find anywhere about colleges, careers and majors. And, with over 150,000 pages of content, including articles, statistics, images, and videos, MyPlan.com is the most extensive guide to colleges, careers and majors you’ll find anywhere – online or offline!</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="24"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="corp_data_header">Freedom of information.</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="2"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/grey_line_538.gif" width="500" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="6"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tool_description">MyPlan.com is dedicated to keeping information affordable if not free. People face enough challenges when choosing colleges, majors and careers. Access to information shouldn’t be one of them. Nearly everything on our site is available to the public for free. No catches. No gimmicks. Period. The only things we charge for are some of the assessment tests; we charge for them in order to recover the expensive cost of researching and developing them, and even still, we keep our prices ridiculously low.</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="24"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="corp_data_header">It takes a village.</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="2"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/grey_line_538.gif" width="500" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="6"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tool_description">Community is the difference. MyPlan.com was developed around an online community infrastructure that allows our members to share experiences and exchange opinions about any college, career or major. With nearly 3,000 forums (and counting), MyPlan.com is home to the largest educational and/or career planning discussion board on the Web!</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="24"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="corp_data_header">Who are we? </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="2"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/grey_line_538.gif" width="500" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="6"><img src="images/spacer_1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tool_description">We’re people who took the long way around to figuring out what we wanted to do with our lives. Perhaps we’re not so different from you. 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