<p>How accurate is the Counselor-O-Matic on the Princeton Review's website? Just wondering how good it does for recommending colleges. OK. Thank you.</p>
<p>Not accurate at all. We've all tried it, and it can be very skewed. Some have recommended "bumping it up," i.e. if it says match, then it's a reach; if it says reach, then it's a super reach, etc.</p>
<p>ehhhhh, it looks pretty accurate for me, except Yale is messed up (says good match when it should be a reach)</p>
<p>my matches are all safteys, i have no matches, and my reaches are right, but none of them are really fits for me</p>
<p>It's good for recommending colleges, but the safety/match/reach is not generally accurate.</p>
<p>The safety/match/reach thing is awful. It doesn't really account for grades. It doesn't take the GPA you enter into account. I pretended to have a 2.0 and it still said Dartmouth was a match, when in the real world it wasn't even a realistic reach for me, more of a hope for a miracle.</p>
<p>Ehh, it told me all of my reaches were were reaches, all my matches were matches, and all of my safteys were safetys, with the exception of Yale.</p>
<p>what about PR's rankings and ratings for separates colleges? Are those accurate?</p>
<p>It doesn't take the GPA into account because most schools don't reveal the average GPA of its admitted students, that's why.</p>
<p>That's fine.....it's still wildly inaccurate. Actually a lot of colleges, Dartmouth included, have given PR the average GPA of an incoming freshman. To say "most" schools don't isn't accurate.</p>
<p>Lol..thats so funny! I just made a post on accident before reading this!</p>