<p>So I found this college-match program at Princeton Review's website...
Should I trust this as a reference? I mean it is probably accuate in generally predicting my admission to colleges right?</p>
<p>Historically, folks have found it to be on the optimistic side. You would want to scale back their predictions for matches. I think they may mean match in the (more meaningful) sense of matching your interests, etc. and not so much your chances of getting in.</p>
<p>I would not trust this reference. It put HARVARD as a 70% match for me. Uhhhh NO. I'd never in a million years get into Harvard.</p>
<p>It is a useful tool in that it will suggest colleges you might not have already considered. But the safety-match-reach aspect is not terribly accurate.</p>
<p>I take any online college counseling service (princetonreview, collegeboard, etc.) with a grain of salt. College board put my ideal college as being Meredith, and I'm a guy, so since then, I do my own research and match myself with colleges. Ultimately, you are the only one who can determine which college is right for you.</p>
<p>Hahaha... that site told me that with my stats, no school was a reach! LOL</p>
<p>Schools like HYP are reaches for everyone unless you're a legacy, recruited athlete, URM, AND your parents donate 10 million bucks all at the same time.</p>
<p>The algorithm does not work for top colleges and top applicants (e.g. misinterpreting Harvard as a match because your SAT scores are above Harvard's 75th percentile) but it may work pretty well for average high school students.</p>
<p>phonyreal98, did you actually check "don't want" when asked if you would consider a women's college?</p>
<p>It's a useless program. Especially if your school doesn't have some of the options offered.</p>
<p>It put Gettysburg as a reach/match for me. I would've walked in with a full merit scholarship.</p>
<p>As others have said, it's great for generating a list of schools that are generally in your range but that you might not have heard of. Don't listen to the safety/match/reach predictions at ALL. The advice in this forum is pretty darn bad sometimes, but those programs are far worse.</p>
<p>it's DEFINITELY inaccurate!!</p>