<p>How accurate is their "will I get in?" function? Of course nothing is 100% but does it do a reasonable job of "chancing"?</p>
<p>No, because the data is based on a small self-reporting sample of students who use Cappex, and the accuracy of the information is unverifiable.</p>
<p>If your child’s school has Naviance, that is a more useful indicator of where your particular student might get in.</p>
<p>according to the cappex website, they use public databases and stats from colleges, no student self reporting. They claim to incorporate things like rigor of HS classes taken and other personal profile criteria. At least on the surface, Cappex appears to be more accurate than Naviance which uses only GPA and test scores from that high school’s population. Am I missing something?</p>
<p>It was pretty good for my D and her stats last year- maybe under reported success (which was due to her non-typical h.s. program). I always looked to see how many data points were there for a specific school and also checked multiple years back.</p>
<p>Naviance results can be interpreted in the light of your high school’s history of placing students at various schools, your region, etc. Cappex cannot take into account these things.</p>
<p>I thought that students using Cappex reported their scores and admission results themselves. How else could Cappex get that information? Colleges don’t release information for individuals; only averages. Cappex is a scattergram based on individuals, like Naviance. Alternatively, you could just use the College Board website to see where a given student falls in the admissions selectivity bands. </p>
<p>Accurate “chancing” is impossible. Cappex cannot know whether your specific kid has a better chance at place A or at place B. You can use Cappex, IPEDs, College Board, or even this site’s College Search to come up with a list of places where a student would be an appropriate/competitive applicant, but no one should rely on any of these for their predictive powers. Any place with a sub-30% acceptance rate for your kid’s demographic is a crapshoot.</p>
<p>I used to until I realized that its a dumb website that tells you nothing. No one uses is and the samplings are salaam.</p>