<p>There are many tools and websites that try to give an estimates of students' chances of getting. Although they don't take into account ECs or specific details, they're supposed to work for "normal, nothing special" students. So for those students, do they work well, do they have good prediction rates?</p>
<p>Here some examples of such tools:
CollegeData</a> - College Chances</p>
<p>See</a> your chances of getting accepted | Parchment - College admissions predictions.</p>
<p>College</a> Search and Reviews, Scholarships, College Admissions Chances - Cappex</p>
<p>Predict</a> Your College Admission Chances!</p>
<p>And Accept.ly which doesn't exist anymore.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone that chime in!</p>
<p>They may work for colleges that have more stats-driven admission processes, but they certainly don’t work for Ivies, Stanford, G’town, MIT, Chicago, Duke, and other highly selective colleges whose applicant pools are so competitive that about 75% of all applicants are qualified to do the work. At these colleges, ECs, teacher recs, and essays in particular (which these websites ignore) carry substantial weight when it comes down to who will make the final cut.</p>
<p>I found parchment to be pretty accurate. But as mentioned, only with numbers-driven schools.</p>
<p>I would imagine that the accuracy of tools like these is inversely related to the selectivity of the school in question, because the quantitative data about an applicant becomes the distinguishing factor at these schools (i.e. there is stronger correlation between a students scores and GPA and whether or not they were offered admission).</p>
<p>This kind of data is obviously far easier to analyze and make predictions with than data from schools where students will excellent qualifications are regularly rejected.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh, cool, 3 people saying the same thing at the same time. Looks like there’s a consensus.</p>