<p>I found this extremely helpful so I thought I'd share!
<a href="http://www.parchment.com">www.parchment.com</a> </p>
<p>Make a profile, enter your stats, search your colleges, and it generates your acceptance chance!
Hope this helps some of you! Good luck with the college searches (wish me some too).</p>
<p>■■■■■■■■■■ is awesome 2</p>
<p>Kind of not helpful sometimes though. 98% chance–didn’t get in. :P</p>
<p>Agree to the ^. They can be misleading with dishonest users. Take it all with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Use their “Scatterplots & Analytics.” Play around with the x-axis and y-axis. Locate your dot. Look at the red dots and blue/green dots nearby. Ignore extreme outliers. Estimate a line/curve that divides the red dots and the blue/green dots. Is your dot above or below this imaginary line? Decide whether the college you are looking at favors GPA or test scores.</p>
<p>Use their “Applications & Decisions.” Compare the acceptances/rejections among different years. Is the college becoming harder to get into? Or are the results mostly constant from year to year?</p>
<p>Ignore their predictions. They are useless.</p>
<p>Do not use the website to determine your chances at HYPMSC. These colleges are extremely unpredictable.</p>
<p>Do not use the website to determine your chances at small schools. Not enough data points.</p>
<p>Both my sons found Parchment a terrible predicator of college acceptances. They used the common data sets from each university as an indicator of their chances. They found it much more reliable.</p>