CRS is a GPA for career readiness
Just as GPA is built from individual course grades that combine into a single signal, CRS is built from three dimensions that combine into one score.
CRS = Foundation + Momentum + Outcomes
Your institution already has a single number that tells every academic advisor exactly where a student stands. GPA identifies who needs help, prioritizes intervention, and updates every term. Until now, nothing did the same for career readiness.
Foundation — Inputs & Effort
Foundation measures whether a student is putting in the work: the inputs they control.
It captures the actions a student can take at any stage of their journey, from early exploration through active job search, and it establishes whether the building blocks are in place to move forward.
Momentum — Engagement Trend
Momentum measures how a student’s engagement is trending over time: whether they are accelerating, holding steady, or quietly disengaging.
It is the dimension that makes CRS genuinely forward-looking, surfacing the students who are starting to drift before that drift becomes a missed outcome.
Outcomes — Real-World Traction
Outcomes measures whether effort is converting into real-world results: whether applications are becoming interviews, and interviews are becoming offers.
These are the numbers your institution is already being asked to report; CRS connects those results back to the behaviors and momentum that drove them.
A score that knows where each student stands in their journey
CRS uses the same three dimensions for every student, and evolves with them over time. CRS is calibrated to where a student is in their academic journey, because what “on track” means for a first-year student is not what it means for a senior.
Foundation and Momentum matter most early, when students are exploring, engaging, and building career readiness.
Near graduation, effort should convert into interviews, offers, and real career outcomes.
Disengaging students are at risk, regardless of where they are in their academic journey.
No more chasing surveys
CRS is powered by what students do throughout their college journey. Stella captures activities, accomplishments, and behavioral signals automatically as students engage with the platform.
The result is a score that reflects reality, not student response rates. And because the data is continuous and behavioral, the diagnostic patterns CRS surfaces are grounded in what is actually happening – not surveys after they’ve already left.
