Is this site accurate?

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<p>College</a> Admission Chances | My Chances.net - Data-driven college admission prediction.</p>

<p>I put all my accurate information in and for each school they give a percentage about how accurate I am of getting in... they say I have a 30-50 percent shot at top schools like northwestern, duke, georgetown, stanford, and they say i will get into all the UC's. They say they are 80-100 percent confident of their predictions based on their computer. I assume the computer takes into account EC's as well because they asked about those too. </p>

<p>The problem is my stats suck and I'm not in the top 10 percent and I have a 29 ACT.... why are they projecting me so high? Is it my EC's?</p>

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<p>lol i really dont think a computer can take into account ec's, especially with the variation in names of similar ec's and typos. most likely its not very accurate.</p>

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<p>well even then... I put in my GPA/ACT which is in the 25-50 percentile and they say I have a 30-50% shot at brown,NU,gtown...etc...</p>

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<p>I don't think that site is accurate. It seems to, at least for me, keep clear of the extremes. 35% chance at HYPS and 80% chance at my in-state safety? More like 0% and 100% if you ask me.</p>

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<p>yeah they said i have a 2.2 percent chance at harvard and a 30 percent shot at stanford.... i guess harvard makes sense though...</p>

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<p>I'm thinking not... It says I have a 49% chance at Goucher, which is just ridiculous. The other percents are too high, that one is too low... And I got a 80% for my safety, to which I have already been accepted, and it was basically 100%. I'm not sure.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't trust it, it gave me a better chance at WashU., Rice, and Carnegie Mellon than at SUNY Buffalo.</p>

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<p>it said my chances of getting into goucher and pomona were the same- 46% which is crazy
i got into goucher with a really big scholarship, and got deferred ED from pomona</p>

<p>so i think this is very very inaccurate
it's pretty cool though, but everything about it is very vague</p>

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<p>It makes all its predictions based on the data given to it by users. For example, Reed College only had, I think, one person apply to it who used this site... therefore, it only has one reference point for Reed. Some of its predictions are very messed up probably because it doesn't have good data to go on.</p>

<p>Of course, the entire idea of the site is stupid anyway. I used to have an account, but I deleted it.</p>

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<p>^Ya I think I'm going to feel pretty stupid for bothering with chance sites and chance threads come April</p>

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<p>It tells me that I have a 60% shot at UMichigan(in state), but over 80% to Haverford, Northwestern, and Middlebury.</p>

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<p>No, don't think so. It said I have 15.7% shot at Wellesley, but I just got accepted ED there. It can't really take into consideration things like the difficulty of one's school (accounting for GPA) or change (eg upward trends) in grades, EC's, teacher recs, etc.</p>

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<p>Idk. I got a 76.5% chance at Harvard with 80% accuracy. I hope its correct lol. The whole premise of the website is based on data gathered from other people who got in or rejected and what they put in. It is faulty and the level of accuracy cannot be too high.</p>

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<p>yea thats what i'm tryin to say... I'm below the 25 percentile for accepted students on that site and it says its a reach school, but they said I have a 48 percent shot at northwestern and georgetown and a 78 percent shot at ucla... my stats are way below the averages...</p>

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<p>Haha, it said I have a better chance at UChicago than Texas A&M.</p>

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<p>The percentages would all be screwed up, even if they did get a lot of data. I'm assuming that kids with higher scores and GPAs would use that type of site, so if there was a ton of data, I'm assuming that the percentages would be low.</p>

<p>I know the problem with Goucher is that it didn't have enough data...</p>

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<p>I skipped chancing myself -- trying not to think about that anymore. But I did do the "Admissions Game" thing where you get to guess if an applicant was admitted/rejected based on their stats. It didn't require registration. Kept me entertained for a while. I got 65 right 24 wrong. Anybody else try it?</p>

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<p>Hahah. Yes. Fun game. Apparently a hispanic with a 2400 and 36 ACT did not get into Columbia. Sure gives hope to us all...</p>

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<p>you got a link to that game?</p>

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<p>im bumping cause i wanna know the link to this admissions game</p>