<p>The college chances predictions have seemingly been largely based on gpa and SAT. For each school, they rate their own success in correctly predicting accept/reject and you can see that for a school like Stanford that relies heavily on other factors, their prediction accuracy has been relatively low. They’ve added a list of questions for new applicants that will presumably allow them to factor non-numerics into their predictions. </p>
<p>Their predictions are “interesting” in any case. If you look through the Stanford list you’ll find a goddess with 2400/4.0, 5’s in about a hundred AP’s (click the user name to get more info) with a 92% (iirc). Right below her is a guy with a 4 in exactly one AP with 100%. Secret formula, like Coke.</p>