<p>Yea they are extremely innacurate. You can literally lower ur stats a ton and ur results rarely change. On the other hand sometimes u even actualize ur results (leave same stats just click again) and ur list changes. its really weird, and i vowed not to use it. Ur best bet is seeing how close you are to the middle 50 % ranges colleges post and the percentages of students they accept. Also its more reliable for a human to rate ur chances. here is a good website i used fall of last year when selecting my schools, ****************.com</p>
<p>Don't look at those types of things. They are very innacurate and hinder more than help. Do your own research and save yourself time and trouble!</p>
<p>****************.c.o.m is a good website</p>
<p>admission chances is a good site to use.
humans rate ur chances for free
type admission chances all together in google.</p>
<p>Hey could you post that website again - CC seems to be censoring it for some reason...</p>
<p>it will censor it all the time.
on google just type all together the following: admission chances
the site url is that all together with a .com at the end.</p>
<p>I just gave it a shot, and it ranked Grinnell as the best fit (I applied ED there before taking the survey)</p>
<p>BUT, it also said Mount Holyoke was a good match, and I'm a boy.</p>
<p>It'll tell you whether you're a failure, ok, or good. That's all.</p>
<p>It will give you schools that match your criteria to a certain extent. All the schools I applied to, including Grinnell actually, ranked very highly for me. However, the reach/match/safety bit doesn't work. It just doesn't. It gets lucky sometimes, but it doesn't.</p>
<p>True:</p>
<p>It told me Princeton is a reach (isn't it for everyone? as well as Dartmouth?) </p>
<p>It was fun to use and just see anyways!</p>
<p>I would say counselor-o-matic is a questionable program at best. I have changed some entries significantly (just to test it out) and often find it doesn't change the results at all. Other times, a relatively small tweak will change matches to reaches, and visa versa.<br>
One data point: counselor-o-matic listed a particular school my son applied to as a "reach", but when speaking to his guidance counselor about the same school she said he would "have not trouble at all" getting in (she was right I think).
My younger son is now going through the process and it listed Yale as a "good match" , while common sense tells me it would be a reach for him at best. So, I really can't even say whether the program tends to give an overly pessimistic, or an overly conservative set of answers. Possibly the best use of the thing is to just at look over the schools it picks, regardless of the "match" category, and evaluate your chances of admission to the ones you like by looking someplace else.</p>
<p>I've also noticed that it's not at all accurate with things like geography and school size.</p>
<p>Definitely not accurate
It listed Yale as a Match
W.T.F.?
That completely obliterated any inkling of confidence I had in its accuracy.</p>