How accurate is ChatGPT in predicting acceptances?

[jameshawkings]

Interesting. Could be better stats, could be better ECs, not sure. Good luck!

[Strannik]

What are your stats? 70-80% for UGA for OOS is quite unlikely

[jameshawkings]

Chance me for Colleges [TX resident, 3.94GPA, 1510 SAT, top 10%, $15-20k, poli sci]

TX Resident. Large public HS. Budget is around 15-20k/year Intending to major in Political Science 39/505 in my class. Top 10% but not top 6%. 1510 on SAT (780 EBRW 730 Mathematics). 3.94UW/4.44W GPA. 34 on ACT (from 8th grade, though, so I won’t submit unless advised to) Did not study for either standardized test, and both were something of a surprise. I was not planning to apply to selective colleges until I realized my scores and grades might be able to get me in some places. Classwork - 9 APs 12 Honors all 4s and 5s on AP tests (Possibly a weak point. I only have two years of Foreign Language.) ECs Band TMEA All-State Qualifier - 2023, First Chair ----. Soloist in ----. Interlochen Arts Camp Qualifier - 2024, First Chair at Clarinet Intensive TMEA All-Region 2022-2024, First Chair 2023/24 TMEA All-Area 2023/24 Various solos with my band (no doxxing :)) TSSEC Qualifier 2023/24 - Superior Rating (1) ---- Superior Rating (1) Section Leader - 2022/24 Founder of the --…

[Strannik]

Great credentials, so you were not going to provide a 34/1510 score (you say for bot h the ACT and SAT without studying just to see), but then realized these scores may help you get in? That’s interesting.

[jameshawkings]

I was preparing for a career in music performance, but took it without studying and incidentally did well. I wasn’t really preparing for admissions to selective colleges before the beginning of this year

[Strannik]

It’s cool that you accidentally did well in both the ACT and SAT sittings Many struggle multiple times…

[jameshawkings]

Thank you! Honestly blessed

[Strannik]

It’s also great that you took all those AP and honors courses, took the AP exams, and you were not even thinking about applying to selective colleges! I would suggest actually studying some for the tests and you’ll likely max out on both.

[jameshawkings]

Like, would you recommend taking the SAT/ACT again? I’ve already applied to most of my schools

[antioch_linguist]

Well, I, on the verge of going insane because of how unknowable this whole process is, started using ChatGPT as a sort of a fortune teller. I am mostly anti AI and very much not spiritual but college admissions is quite stressful, you never know.

I put in all my details, schools, literally everything I have, told it about how little of a chance an international seeking aid has, and started feeding it profiles of people who have shared their results (but without their decisions). It started out very optimistic, suggesting multiple T20 acceptances, but I finally trained it to give me all rejections, sometimes with a few waitlists. In the end I have no idea why I’m doing this, maybe to face reality early on.

[Strannik]

You need to get your mind off of this, go for a walk or something The obsession with T20 is unhealthy…I started the process with that mindset and have happily moved on.

[OregonDad24]

Precisely. Without some data to train on, AI isn’t any better than you or I. And WITH some data to train on, you wouldn’t need AI – someone could just crunch the data and create a calculator.

Colleges receiving thousand of applications and accepting a tiny fraction of them MUST use a formula if they want to move through the applications in a way that’s a) timely, and b) fair to all applicants. It may not be programmed into a computer, but if you have both the inputs (GPA, scores, activities, demographics, etc) and the outputs (accept/reject) it’s not magic.