Start the sequence
Nothing is decided yet. The math track you land in now sets what is reachable by senior year.
- Geometry, or Algebra I
- Biology
- One elective that tells you something
Bearing 000°Free, about 10 minutes
You don't have to know what you want.
You just need a bearing.
Tell us what you enjoy. Get back the classes to take next year, and the year after, for the directions that actually fit you.
20 directions and 200+ majors, built on O*NET, the interest framework the US Department of Labor uses.
Every direction has a route
No account needed
Two taps, real classes.
Straight from the library you get after signing up. The survey is what works out which of these fit you.
1. What sounds more like you
2. What grade you're in
10th grade, heading toward software & computing
- Need itAlgebra II
- HelpsAP Computer Science A (Java)
- Need itChemistry
- HelpsWorld language, year 2
The mistake people make here
Taking Statistics instead of Precalculus junior year. It's a common swap because stats reads as easier, and it removes Calculus from senior year. That's the single most common way students land in a CS program a semester behind in math.
The route
Four years, and the year that decides them.
The quiet fork
Algebra II and a second year of a language. Doors start closing here, and nobody announces it.
- Algebra II
- Chemistry
- World language, year 2
The year that gets read
Precalculus keeps Calculus open for senior year. Statistics reads easier and closes it.
- Precalculus
- Physics or an AP science
- The AP that fits your direction
Finish what you started
The portfolio, the capstone, or the fourth year of math a program expects to see.
- Calculus or an applied fourth year
- Capstone or portfolio
- Dual enrollment where it counts
Checked against your school
Bearing reads your school's own published catalog and marks which of these exist there, under the names your school uses.
- Course numbers and prerequisites
- What your school does not offer
- Dual enrollment and summer routes instead
Why this matters now
The decisions that matter most get made the earliest, with the least information.
Someone takes Statistics over Precalculus junior year because it sounds easier. Two years later they apply to engineering programs that build the whole first year on calculus. Nobody told them those two facts were connected.
Same story with world languages, with chemistry, with art portfolios that take four years to build, with CTE pathways that need three. None of it feels like a big deal at the time.
How it works
Four steps, one afternoon.
Then ask the advisor anything. It already knows your grade, your school, your results and your plan.
- 01
Answer 30 quick questions
About ten minutes. It saves as you go, so you can stop anywhere and come back.
- 02
Get five or six directions
Each one comes with the reason it showed up, including ones you would never have searched for.
- 03
See the classes that get you there
Grade by grade, from the one you are in. Which courses carry weight, and which choices close a door two years later.
- 04
Check it against your school
Bearing reads your school's own catalog and marks what exists there. Bring the list to your counselor.
What Bearing won't do
Tell you what to be
A ten-minute survey cannot know that. It points at possibilities and shows its reasoning.
Predict where you get in
Nobody can. The tools that claim to are guessing.
Replace your counselor
You leave with a specific list to bring to the person holding your transcript.
Share your answers without you
Your results are yours. You decide who sees them, and you can change that any time.
Bearing 000°, start here
Start now, free.
The survey, your results and your plan are live today. The waitlist is for what comes next: counselor sharing and a parent view.