Assessment with a Charge

<p>I just paid an online service for the assessment of my d’s chances of college admission. Although they boast a 94% accuracy rate and guarantee money back if they are wrong, I still feel unsure of their projection. Have you guys heard of or used the service before? Here’s what I got for my daughter:</p>

<p>College Name: || Her Chances || Average Applicant’s Chances
Columbia College: || 88% || 10%
Cornell College of Arts: || 83% || 22%
Dartmouth College: || 75% || 16%
UPenn: || 81% || 18%
Princeton: || 59% || 10%
Amherst: || 67% || 10%
Stanford: || 52% || 11%
Yale: || 56% || 9%
Northwestern: || 85% || 30%
Williams: || 88% || 19%</p>

<p>Her profile is like this:</p>

<p>SAT I:
CR: 760 Math: 780 WR: 680</p>

<p>SAT II:
Chinese: 800 Literature: 780 History: 700</p>

<p>GPA: 3.994 Unweighted
Class rank: 5 out of 311 (top 2%)</p>

<p>1 AP Calculus (Taking this semester) 7 honors</p>

<p>Major EC’s:
National Honor Society: Treasurer
National Art Honor Society: President
Business Professional of America: Secretary
Anime Club: Founder and President
Own and maintain a personal website that helps youngsters with website development and graphic design
Drama: stage technician
70 hours of community service</p>

<p>Employment:
Web Developer with a local technical company for about 2 years (9 hrs/w)</p>

<p>Major Honors:
National BPA (2006) Website Development Team - second place
National BPA (2006) Graphic Promotion - 5th place
Natinoal BPA (2005) Graphic Promotion - 13th place
Michigan BPA (2005) Website Design Team - 3rd place</p>

<p>Do you agree with the assessment? Please share your idea. Thanks.</p>

<p>Your daugher looks brilliant. I would not worry.</p>

<p>But I mean how can you prove them wrong? Columbia will most likely not say: “Your daughter was only 22% not fantastic enough…” Sounds like a minor scam to me…</p>

<p>you mean 12% lol</p>

<p>Haha…there goes my hopes at college acceptance ;)</p>