Accuracy of Parchment?

TooOld4School
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 01:35:59 +0000

Parchment is only as accurate as the people reporting results back to it, and that subset is not necessarily representative of the overall student population. If you look at difference sites, you will see wildly different predictions. One thing I have noticed is that they are all pretty consistent except for a few top universities - when you get to the ones where average acceptance rates are 15% or less far more randomness creeps in. The universities with super ‘holistic’ admissions (not data driven) are the most difficult to predict.