<p>Mr. Caveat - you are a top-school potential student. Make out on your own.</p>
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<p>That’s what she said.</p>
<p>Aniruddh, every group has a perv. :p</p>
<p>Hey have any of you tried silverturtles tool… How accurate do you think it is??</p>
<p>Silverturtle’s tool? Could you link me to it?</p>
<p>Violator, please don’t base your chances on that. Seriously. </p>
<p>You’re done with apps no? Just sit back. Relax. Try to enjoy your senior year. You’ve worked hard and you’ll get to where you belong. Believe me!</p>
<p>Yea I really wouldn’t rely on that. For starters, it doesn’t even have a column for ACT scores (and conversion charts are never 100% reliable). Plus I doubt you could reduce admissions decisions to something so formulaic. There are a thousand qualitative factors that play a part, most importantly your essay. It’s a fun tool, but by no means would I call it accurate.
Oh here it is Ani-
[Copy</a> of October 2009(1).xlsx](<a href=“File sharing and storage made simple”>Copy of October 2009(1))</p>
<p>According to it I have a 35% chance of getting in and Funky has an 85% chance. If only the real world were like that!</p>
<p>Such BS. </p>
<p>I was playing around with it for sometime and I realized how flawed that “tool” is.</p>
<p>Complete crap.</p>
<p>Which college is the tool for, btw?</p>
<p>If I were an adcom I’d admit silverturtle only by looking at his CC posts</p>
<p>^true! I’m sure he’s an awesome person, he’s helped so many students unknown to him (and his competitors). I was sad to hear he got deferred from Yale. He, for one, deserved to get in. :(</p>
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<p>It’s designed for the most competitive colleges in general. For the most part, it seems to over-predict chances and is certainly not flawless, insomuch as it can assess based on merely quantitative aspects and is not perfect in even that regard. Originally, I made it just to experiment with Excel, but I figured I would share it on CC in case anyone was interested. I might rework it this summer into something more meaningful.</p>
<p>I feel that the tool is certainly NOT the best and flawless, but it gives you a fairly-good-enough idea of your chances at a top university.</p>
<p>@midnightsanity94- I wish i could just sit back and relax. But I am in no mood to study for IIT anymore and I really need to know how i will fare in the RD round. Atleast gaining a more realistic perspective will help me determine as to how much effort i should put into IIT. ( i really can’t study 10 hours a day for no reason)</p>
<p>@debarghya- Didn’t funky make it into Cornell? (so silverturtle is accurate?)</p>
<p>^ I won’t say accurate, but helpful.</p>
<p>@silverturtle: Haha, I keep forgetting that you’re a Senior just like us! I was playing around with the variables and noticed that the importance of some things like leadership, etc. are really inflated…</p>
<p>@midnight: Most Indians cannot enjoy their Senior year after app season because they need to study for their boards!</p>
<p>Regardless of the accuracy of the chancer, I still would find it hard to assess my own chances with a certain percentage. e.g. 6% means absolutely nothing to me!</p>
<p>^So it took a Rolling Stone to come up with a sensible comment on this thread.</p>
<p>No one really cares about APs senior year…serious students do.</p>
<p>And whoa, silverturtle on the Indian thread? #saywhat</p>
<p>Silverturtle, don’t worry - it just wasn’t in the cards. You’ll get into an equally amazing, if not better school. :)</p>
<p>Violator - You should have applied widely. Ivies are a crapshoot. Tufts, UMich, UCLA are other, less-competitive schools that may very well be matches/safeties for you.</p>
<p>Midnightsanity- I did apply to Umich (got in EA). But it isn’t that great and my parents aren’t too keen on sending me out there. I just really wanna go to the US and getting into either the ivies, MIT Caltech or maybe Berkley is my only option and seeing as to how there is no fixed way to determine my admission chances i’m just trying my best to find out what chances i have at these colleges.</p>
<p>@Anirudh- Ur CBSE?</p>