@Mamelot Yea they are but GPA is a little lower and my ACT is higher. One of my classmates got accepted to CLA this week and I was very surprised as his stats were ACT: 27 and GPA: 3.6 with 3 AP classes
Based on the link I posted from last year, I would not be surprised if my son (out of state - WI applied to CSOM) does not get a reply until February. I’m not going to post his stats here because I think some on this site are waaay over critical of stats. His EC’s and ACT scores are good, but his GPA and class rank are not as good as others who have posted on this site. Parchment.com gives him an 87% chance of being excepted (but I know the posters on this site would not give him nearly that high of a percentage). So, I guess we will see. He’s been accepted to Iowa State and has also applied at UW-Madison.
Just got accepted!
Accepted to CSE
Major: Electrical Engineering
ACT: 30
GPA: 3.99 UW
Rank: 3/(55-59)
Wisconsin Resident
Ha…regarding post #121. I wish there was an edit function! Obviously I meant “accepted” not “excepted” 
@BrewCrew82 you can edit up to 15 minutes after your post. BTW have you checked out Admitster? I have found it to be more accurate than Parchment. My D2 has a very high probability on Parchment but Admitster gives her chances at right under 50%. That makes sense to me when you consider her chances against an overall pool of applicants (without distinguishing among the colleges). She should be higher than the overall admit rate and probably close to the admit rate of CLA itself, given her average stats for that college (I have back-of-the-envelope calculated that CLA’s admit rate is a little higher than 50%). What’s great about Admitster is that they provide the detail behind their projection distinguishing between “academic” factors and EC’s. Those are broken down further so that you can see how, for instance, the Math ACT affects the academic side (for the SAT at least at the U of MN Math seems to be weighted more heavily than CR or Writing). It’s a very helpful tool.
Good luck to your son! That ACT will help for sure!
@Mamelot thanks for that info! Very interesting results on that site. Completely opposite of parchment. His chances of getting into Minnesota based on that site are about have the chances they give him on Parchment. However, his odds of getting into Wisconsin (his 1st choice school) are much greater based on Admitster’s projections. So, I don’t know what to think. The other interesting item is that they only give him a 79% chance of getting into Iowa State (where he has already been accepted) and Iowa State’s admission policy is not holistic at all. It’s a formula. You can easily figure out if you will be accepted before you even apply to Iowa State (they accept/reject within 48 hours). Parchment gave him 98% for Iowa State.
@BrewCrew82 yeah that’s a problem with using these projection sites for large universities with many colleges (and different admit rates for each one). They are calculating a general admission projection rather than one for a specific college. For instance, I know that D2 would get into Liberal Arts & Sciences or College of Business at Univ. of IA with 100% probability because she would meet the Admission Index for both, but would not meet the requirements for Engineering due to her Math SAT. They don’t get that specific on Admitster or Parchment - they just look at overall admissions info. and compare the person’s chances against that. Also, I’ve noticed that things can swing quite a bit depending on how much info. is added to the profile. The more complete the better. For D2, Admitster weighs the academic stuff 100% for University of Iowa (I didn’t check Iowa State) which makes sense.
I say that if you have two projection sites going and it’s showing the same projection then his real chances must be in the ballpark. That logic would work for me
@Mamelot My friend at school got into CLA this week with a 27 on ACT and 3.6 GPA with 3 AP classes. I don’t get how they are admitting students
My S is still waiting and he had the GG application, complete in early September. They invited him to learn about the honors program due to his 35C, but have pretty much ignored him since. If they had accepted him a month ago, I think it would have increased his interest in the school. As time goes on and others are admitted, not so much. On the other hand, he is respecting the fact that the COE at MN is perhaps a bit more competitive than he thought.
@vvfor3, do you know when he/she applied? I think that can be interpreted as good news for both you and my D2, unless there’s a hook somewhere.
Edit update: are you in the TC metro? Because I think each high school in that case has a dedicated admissions counselor.
@s16s18s21s25 it would be INSANE of them not to admit a 35 ACT with decent grades. I’m still pretty sure he’ll get in. I think we all just have to be patient, although I sympathize with you and with @vvfor3 because you’ve both seen weaker stats be accepted and you have to kind of wonder what the methodology is for timing. This happened last year too. The reality is that two applications admitted 4-5 months apart are still the same thing - two applications admitted.
@Mamelot unfortunately, both sites have vastly different projections for both schools (UW Madison and Minnesota) for my son. It seems to me that Parchment bases their chances on the stats and acceptance rates of the users of their site. There is no place on Admitster’s site that asks the user to enter their final result (Accepted, Denied, Waitlisted, etc). On Parchment there is and then if you use the “Fit” module on Parchment you can actually see a scatter graph of accepted, denied, attending of users of the site based on 2 different factors that you choose (you can chose 2 of the following: w or uw GPA, class rank, SAT, ACT). If you click on the dots of the scatter graph you can see each users stats for that school that recorded a final status of their application.
Just got admitted!
College of Science and Engineering
Major: Computer Science
Stats:
ACT: 31
GPA: 3.96 W; 3.39 UW
Rank: Not calculated
Illinois Resident
Congrats to everyone else that got admitted!
Latest theory is reverse psychology…if they play it cool by leaving him hanging perhaps he’ll want them more.
@Brewcrew82 I do like the scatter plots on Parchment as well. Admitster definitely seems to use a different methodology and I think it might be proprietary. What are the Admitster projections for your son for the two schools? It would interesting to compare them - perhaps something can be gleaned from the results (you never know).
@stephanie97 congrats! Well done.
@s16s18s21s25 this whole college match up thing reminds me of a Jane Austen novel. In the “olden days” marrying well was just as important! How far we’ve come since then right?!
@Mamelot He applied at the end of September and he was pretty surprised that he got in before me since I have much higher stats. But hopefully this means we’ll receive some good news soon
@vvfor3 at first blush it seems odd; however, that person got into CLA and you applied to CBS first and CLA second. That could mean that you are currently being considered for your first choice - which, of course, would be hopeful news.
(keep in mind that this person also applied sooner than you did so perhaps they just haven’t gotten to your application yet . . . )
You know that your ACT is right where it needs to be for CBS. Assuming that other person has no obvious hook, you would have to be a shoe in for CLA at minimum.
@Mamelot Here are what the 2 sites say for my son:
Minnesota:
Admitster 33% Parchment 87%
Wisconsin:
Admitster 76% Parchment 48%
Iowa State (already admitted):
Admitster 79% Parchment 98%
@BrewCrew82 Wow! big difference from Minnesota and Wisconsin at Admitster. Do you know the reason?
No idea. Entered the exact same information in both sites