We’re constantly tweaking our [world-class</a> college search tool, SuperMatch™](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]world-class”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/), and the latest version has one feature that searchers have been asking for: the ability to save a search! Actually, you can save multiple searches - a “ballpark” search, perhaps, a safety search, and a search if you decide to pursue marine biology!
Like many of our improvements, this one was based on feedback from CC members. After entering a dozen or more criteria, tweaking the importance of some of them, and coming up with an interesting list of schools, people wanted a way to retrieve that list without having to repeat the whole process. So, save your creative college lists and load them for further study or more tweaking another day!
You can also share your list on Facebook or Twitter! Come up with your list, and then ask your friends for feedback! Happy searching!
Saving the list seems helpful. I used the Match a couple times when looking for colleges, and just ran it again to see how accurate it was on where I ended up looking and got in, and it was pretty good.
I just ran it for fun, to see if any of the colleges I actually applied to came up as matches. Ironically, one of them did, as a 95% match. It was a school I was rejected from. Under the breakdown, it had my scores listed as a 0% fit match. I think maybe you should, at some point in the future, adapt it so if your scores are listed as <5% match, its not shown. Otherwise, this was really cool
I would really like the search engine to be adapted to allow for EFC to be taken into account, or to identify schools known for good need-based or merit-based aid.
ezbreez, good suggestion. In fact, the next release of SuperMatch, which should be out in 2 - 3 weeks, has enhanced logic to ensure that if your scores/GPA indicate you are unlikely to get in, the school will not be a high match, even if it is a great match for all other criteria you’ve selected.
MizzBee, thanks for the suggestion. We are looking into how to best incorporate net pricing, EFC, etc. into matching for the Tuition and Fees criterion. I know it may be too late for your individual use, but I would expect that functionality to be available in SuperMatch sometime this summer…