“… To boost her chances of acceptance, Pal has turned to Cialfo, a Singapore-based college prep course that combines traditional offline tutoring with data analytics, to crack the admissions code.” …
admissions “code” = snake oil?
Their algorithm is used to create à shortlist, not guarantee an admit. For all we know, that’s a reasonable shift to non HYPSMabc, for many kids.
Plus the comment about educating parents suggests tempering their expectations.
Way behind the times. The real experts know it’s all about distributed neural network heuristics.