<p>Have you or your kids used this service? Have any of you done this without your child knowing? What are your experiences?</p>
<p>My son ordered the stats eval the summer before senior year to see if his list was reasonable or not. It included seven schools - my son ultimately dropped the the reach school, and applied to the remaining six (2 reasonable reaches, 2 matches, and 2 safeties). He was admitted to the matches and safeties, and waitlisted at the reasonable reaches. So, the prediction was spot on in my son's case. The stats eval also included suggestions on the application process, and ideas on other schools to apply to. </p>
<p>I think this service would better serve your child if he or she completed the form - the better the input, the better evaluation Dave Berry can provide.</p>
<p>My daughter just had the Stats Eval done (thanks Dave!), and ditto to what ohiomom says. It is especially nice to have a disinterested third party evaluate your strengths, weaknesses, and chances. I would say it is worth the $89.</p>
<p>O.K. OK. I'll do it. (I've wanted to anyway.) How long did it take to fill out the stuff ? After submission, how long till you get your stats evaluation back ?</p>
<p>How long did it take? Ha ha ha ha ha! Including nag time? Actual time to complete the information did not take long, but getting daughter to write a sample essay, compile info, etc. took a while. The results came amazingly fast - I think daughter submitted on a Thursday or Friday, and she got the results Sunday morning (think Dave must be working some overtime).</p>
<p>Does one guy do the whole thing?</p>
<p>I used stats eval. Dave said he thought I had a strong chance at my reaches. He was right lol.</p>