<p>Is it safe to say that it's a teeny bit spurious in it's suggestions of schools? not to sound copnceited or anything, but I have a 2300 on the SATs and am first in my class, and it suggested schools like Juniata College and other ones i've never heard of for my good matches, schools like SUNY-New Palz for my safeties, and schools like Bowdoin for my reaches...</p>
<p>I know that it's been brought up on this board before, but I forget what we have concluded about it.</p>
<p>that system is veeeeery flawed</p>
<p>look at the percentage-match. Alot of the schools that first appear are paid advertisements.</p>
<p>Only the first two schools are advertisements, that's why they're shaded in blue. And the stats may no be on the ball, but all of the school it suggested to me were in the columns they were supposed to be and many were great suggestions that I never thought of. </p>
<p>To those that criticize it for it's flaws, it is still an incomparable tool that it a very good starting point for kids that don't have a clue... 4 out of my final 10 schools were brought to my attention by the counselor-o-matic.</p>
<p>Cre8tive1, only if you're totally clueless should you use it. Personal research and threads on these boards will help 100 times more. The best thing it's good for in narrowing schools geographically, again for the totally clueless. All of this is, of course, IMHO.</p>
<p>dude...that site claims that Emory is one of the 20th hardest schools to get accepted to. Hmm...seems kinda weird. I would think Chicago, Northwestern, Cornell and Rice are a tad bit harder to get into.</p>
<p>Yeah, it also gives UC-Davis the same "admissions selectivy index" as harvard, yale, and princeton...</p>
<p>Yea, it's BS, jmarsh. My stats were similar to yours, and I was given some random BS responses. It's definitely a very flawed system.</p>
<p>Collegeparent, do you realize that only the top decile of students have a clue about the college process? I have about half of my class on my tail, calling me over the summer about colleges, because they want help and they have no idea where to start. </p>
<p>So you really think the average student will seek out this site, join, and ask for advice? I haven't seen any kids saying my GPA is 2.45 and SATs are 1000 of 1600, but that's an average student, the kind you don't find on this site.</p>
<p>For those kind of kids, Counselor-O-Matic is a great starting tool, gives you an idea of whats out there and minimal guidance. </p>
<p>It's not the greatest for college buffs like us, or any regular poster on this CC, because we've outsmarted that along with most college resources.</p>
<p>Counselor-O-Matic is freakin hilarious/psycho.</p>
<p>It said my match was Harvard and that I had no reaches, lol.</p>
<p>Oh, if only that were really true...</p>
<p>Not only is CoM totally messed up, but the "suggested schools" always make me laugh. They base them on profiles you've recently been viewing, so if you view a couple Ivy profiles out of curiosity, they're all suddenly recommended to you, along with Duke, Georgetown, Berkeley, and the like. If you read the name of some tiny career school you've never heard of before and go to its profile to see what it is, now you have a list of two-year schools and tiny state schools in Oklahoma looking back at you. It's all messed up, but amusingly so once you get to know it.</p>
<p>It suggested several all male schools when I clearly checked the "Female" box. I'm pretty sure it's flawed...!</p>
<p>Hah, same here! I got Hampton-Sydney once, and last I checked, I had girly parts. I've also gotten a ton of religious schools back when requesting unaffiliated ones.</p>
<p>Counselor-o-matic worked before PR got all screwy with its selectivity index. Now its laughable.</p>
<p>It may be crazy, but it sure is fun to change one thing and watch everything in your match category go to your reach. Hahah.</p>
<p>And yeah, I didn't like how pretty much all of my results were religious universities when I only checked no affiliation.</p>