Prospects are the hundred strongest children in each age group — around a thousand across the League.
Selection happens at registration. You send us your child's USCF ID, we check the rating against published US Chess data, and if your child is inside the hundred strongest for their age group, the profile goes live.
The list is set annually, on December 31st, and holds for the whole of the following year.
Your child's record exists in one place. Chess results, competitions in other fields, projects, what they are interested in — held together instead of scattered.
Verified partner organizations can see it, where you have allowed it. They define a subject and a level and build tracks for the children who fit. They do not choose children, and your child owes them nothing.
The Legionnaires — one hundred across all age groups — are drawn from here, against the criteria published on the Conditions page.
GUCML is in its first year. Prospect status carries no prize and no funding today, and being in the record does not mean a partner will notice your child. We would rather say that plainly than let you assume otherwise.