<p>has anyone here ever used that thing?? is it worth listenin to??</p>
<p>that **** sucks
they told me that NYU was a match..and my gpa is a 3.2- SAT is 1420..lol
what a ****ing waste of time. im not joking. it told me cornell was a match too..lol</p>
<p>I think it's pretty good. It came up with the schools I would have chosen to look at if I hadn't used it.</p>
<p>yeah me too...but i was just wonderin if mine was the only case....</p>
<p>It was better with identifying specific schools of interest than predicting success rates for admission, but was pretty good for both. Maybe, it's changed. I haven't looked at it in a while.</p>
<p>i have a 3.1unw gpa with 21 PLAN, 25 ACT, and PSAT's around the 60's with SAT's not in yet, considerably active EC wise and hispanic and looking into majoring in biochemistry or an allied field and it gave me this</p>
<h2>Good Match </h2>
<p>Dartmouth
Brandeis
Wesleyan
Carnegie Mellon
University of Miami
Cornell University
Tufts University
Amherst
Swarthmore
Williams
Boston College
Johns Hopkins
Boston University
NYU
University of Florida </p>
<hr>
<h2>Reach </h2>
<p>Harvard
Brown
UPenn
Yale
Stanford
MIT
CalTech
Olin </p>
<hr>
<h2>Safeties </h2>
<p>Northeastern
Drexel
WPI
FIU</p>
<p>yea that thing is a piece of crap, it told me emory and uva were safeties....yea sure bud.</p>
<p>hey kemocghs, do you go to gables high??</p>
<p>Yeah it was pretty ridiculous, it um gave me no reaches which is far from the truth 2000 SAT with 4.545, yeah um reaches def do exist you damn matic machine.</p>
<p>lol tonyt88</p>
<p>fsu-uf: ya i do go to gables high c/o 07.....one more year hehe</p>
<p>go cavs lol, c/o 2007</p>
<p>who run this!!</p>
<p>oh seven u kno!!</p>
<p>lol thats awesome man</p>
<p>The Counselor-o-Matic gave me WPI as a school. I want a liberal arts school. WPI has one "humanities" major.</p>
<p>I'd say it's an okay starting point, but definitely take it with a grain of salt. Try the search on collegeboard.com too.</p>
<p>cool thnx for the info</p>
<p>I think their definition of a good match is a little different than people on cc. Probably 2/3 of Dartmouth applicants have an SAT above the average and are in the top 5% of their class; so fit the profile. But since Dartmouth can't accept 7,000 people to fill a 1,000 person class, most people with similar stats to the accepted students are wait-listed or rejected. At a place like Dartmouth if you are in the top half of applicants, you still only have a 33% chance of acceptance, but that probably would come under the category of good match. Otherwise, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore is basically a good match for virtually no one.</p>
<p>I thought it worked pretty good. I visited some schools and knew which one was my #1 and when I did the counselor-o-matic my best fit was that same school (Wake Forest). However it seems their matches are more of reaches and their safeties are matches.</p>
<p>Just tried in again and it seemed to work perfectly. The school I attended was the #1 good match school on my list with an 88% fit and my first choice where I was wait-listed was the #1 reach school with a 86% fit.</p>
<p>Hmmmm, checked again and yeah ummm, no matches, very weird, but hmmm at least nine of the colleges I applied to were on my match list, but hmmm, how exactly is Connecticut College a safety?????? nice try.</p>
<p>it doesnt work. if u think it works. it doesnt. ok. good. the damn thing said that the OP was a match for Amherst, Swarthmore, and Tufts (those arent matches for anyone) yeahh...for success rates it doesnt work.</p>
<p>Tonyt...If you're going to Harvard in the fall, Conn. College would be a safety for you.</p>
<p>I thought it worked perfectly as far as suitability and match/reach predictions. I think Tufts would be a match for anyone with 1450 SAT, top 5% of class, reasonable ECs. Match to me doesn't mean that you will definitely get in, but you probably deserve to get in. Unfortunately, more applicants 'deserve' to get in than there are spots available. I would agree with jkh that Conn College would probably be a safety for anyone good enough to get into Harvard.</p>