<p>Haha reachy, but my no.1 choice keeps popping up on top so that’s impressive.</p>
<p>Pretty good, but why is Ithaca considered a “great college town” where Cambridge is not? Totally wrong, IMHO.
Distance from home is a huge factor in college decisions for me–I liked the idea about having a category for distance from zipcode.</p>
<p>My three year old HP Pavilion laptop won’t let me do this search! Any info I input just goes away, and scrolling freezes. Help?!</p>
<p>i feel like this search tool is overestimating my chances? Does anyone else feel that way? or am i just underestimating myself?</p>
<p>My biggest objection is that when my stats were not factored in, Clemson was #4 on my list. When I entered in my GPA/SAT scores, Clemson completely dropped off the list :(</p>
<p>^ Did you check the box about considering lower-stat schools for money?</p>
<p>no I didn’t, UVA and Stanford shot up to the top of my list though hahaha (dang it! should’ve applied there despite my 3.1 GPA!)</p>
<p>yeaa stanford, yale, and princeton were at the top of my list so i don’t know how valid this search really is. it doesn’t seem to take the scores in as high consideration as it should because those seemed overestimated. perhaps i just underestimate myself too much but i don’t know what to believe.</p>
<p>I’ve tinkered with this tool on and off for several days. One of the things I did was play around with the academic statistics to “game” the results. I wish I had done it all in one sitting and took notes, because I noticed that I could coax HYPS higher up on the list by lowering SAT scores. That’s right: as between 800s and 770s, the perfect SAT scores diminished the fit with HYPS.</p>
<p>I was just messing around, intentionally poking for bugs, and I concede that I was not being very scientific or dedicated…but I’m certain that if I had been more intentional about this, I could demonstrate that there’s an SAT range (or maybe even a single number) that has been identified for each school as the ideal value, with values both below and above that ideal value which decrease the final “match” outcome that’s generated. If this dynamic is intentional, I disagree because I think there’s a rather extensive list of colleges and universities for which there is no SAT value that’s too high to make them less of a match for a prospective student.</p>
<p>I considered that it’s possible that the higher SAT values don’t decrease the match values but, instead the higher SAT values are elevating the final match outcomes for some schools while the most competitive schools don’t become better matches as the SAT values rise to 800. That would make sense, except that the % match that was displayed for schools like Yale and Princeton decreased as I changed scores from 770s to 800s.</p>
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<p>Just hit Ctrl when you click and you can choose more than one.</p>
<p>I filled it out very honestly and had a 95% match with the school I’m going to, and a 94% match with my very very close second choice school that I almost went to. : )</p>