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<p>Does anyone know how accurate the results are?</p>
<p>will u rewrite the site like this</p>
<p>writelikethis dot com?</p>
<p>bc i cant see the site</p>
<p>ill take a look and tell u my opinion thanks (:</p>
<p><a href="http://www./%5B/url%5D">http://www./</a></p>
<p>I am just going to deem this a ■■■■■ thread and be done with it</p>
<p>My apologies. The link didn’t copy correctly. I submitted reply before double checking it. </p>
<p>The site is mychances dot net </p>
<p>Basically you enter all of your SAT information and other stuff about you and they give a percentage chance of you being accepted into the colleges you select. This isn’t a ■■■■■ thread.</p>
<p>Personally I think it looks good but I can’t complete it only being a 10th grader…</p>
<p>“0.1% chance” for UNC.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>I got in with 52.6%, I think it does give you a good idea of where you stand with your stats but it doesn’t take into account essays and ECs.</p>
<p>It says my chances were 94.8 percent?
I doubt it was that high, but it does give you a good idea of where you stand.</p>
<p>Oh wow, I got a 92.8% chance, which I completely wasn’t expecting. I would take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Last year we were smiling while reviewing mychances predictions.
I my kid’s case,
they turned out to be 100% accurate.</p>
<p>Every college predicted 60+% (including IVYs) did accept her, and 2 which came under 50% (same standards of selectivity) - 1 waitlisted and 1 rejected.
I don’t know their algorithm for predictions, but is does work.</p>
<p>This is sad.</p>
<p>it’s not that accurate. this is a very sad thread.</p>
<p>I just got 98.6%</p>
<p>So would you guys say that your percentage is based on SAT’s, ACT’s, Class Rank, GPA and NOT EC’s Essays?</p>
<p>So if my chances rre 93% right now but if i had really good essays, ec’s - that would be increased?</p>
<p>I don’t believe this. People are actually going by a percentage figure.</p>
<p>If one has a large enough data set of the relevant variables, it should be able to develop a discriminant function that categorizes the outcome correctly a statistically significant portion of the time. The predictions on that site are correct about 80% of the time. The one in five outcomes that is categorized wrong are because of the individual characteristics that the model does not incorporate. But in a lot of social science disciplines, 80% accuracy would be a high rate.</p>
<p>Of course one of the challenges is that it is self-reported data, both in terms of the applicant attributes and admissions outcomes.</p>
<p>the rates from that website are partially based off of people from years before who applied to the same school. i wouldn’t say that the website is that accurate.</p>
<p>Oxymoron ?</p>
<p>My oldest used the mychances site last year more out of curiousity than anything else, and she didn’t put much stock into their predictions. She was accepted at UNC (92.4 chance OOS), and Notre Dame (92.3), but she was waitlisted by Duke (57.1) UVA (87.4) and Vanderbilt (91.5). My youngest is a senior this year, is applying to several of the same schools, and is trying the mychances site just for grins. It will be interesting to see what happens…</p>