College Chance Calculators

MWolf
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 04:48:45 +0000

For any college which practices holistic admissions, they aren’t very accurate. If the college depends mostly on GPA and testing, they’re better, but since they do not incorporate the rigor of classes, they can also be inaccurate.

They do, however, tell you how you compare, academically, to the students who attend the college.

There are also large differences between schools. So if you want to consider GPA/SAT scattergrams, use the ones on Naviance, which are created using the stats of students from your high school.

Their biggest weakness, though, is that they compare you to students who have been accepted. They do not compare you to students who have been rejected. The fact that your stats are better than 90% of the students who have been accepted doesn’t tell you how many students with your stats were actually accepted. So a student with a GPA of 3.95 and an SAT of 1580 may have better stats than 90% of the students who were accepted to Yale, however, they won’t tell you that 80% of all the applicants with those stats were rejected.