<p>Have you found Collegeboard.com?</p>
<p>If so what do you think about its ease of use?</p>
<p>Were you able to find valuable, actionable information in a reasonable fashion? </p>
<p>Did the information from Collegeboard.com influence or simplify your choice of college?</p>
<p>What content at Collegeboard.com did you find most helpful.</p>
<p>Any other thoughts?</p>
<p>I like it. The organization is reasonably clean and most of the critical stats are available for a wide range of colleges. The NCES site is better though.</p>
<p>Good info.</p>
<p>Anyone else have thoughts on this?</p>
<p>Their college match is completely off because it only takes into account average accepted stats and not selectivity, so it’s very skewed for the top schools.</p>
<p>That being said, it’s clear, clean, and well-organized. I’ve never had a problem with it. It’s fine for registering for tests and finding basic information about colleges.</p>
<p>Any other comments?</p>
<p>Useful tool, agreed the match is off. Princeton Reviews is better. Easy to navigate through the info on each school. If used correctly with other sources then it is good aid in the college search.</p>
<p>I hate the fact that Boston University is basically on every college’s “more to explore.”
Did BU possibly pay collegeboard to advertise for them?
Besides that, it’s an easy way to find out SAT ranges, admissions policies and factors, etc., and it is pretty user-friendly.</p>
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Could someone please explain that to me?</p>
<p>It’s good if you’re looking for stats on a school, but the match isn’t great. Also, the AP test section doesn’t direct you to AP central where the better info is. (If I remember correctly)</p>
<p>bump again</p>
<p>College Board is not up to date. I mean, NYU’s acceptance rate is still 32% on the thing, and it is actually more like 24ish percent. They REALLY need to update those figures.</p>
<p>Yeah I first noticed some stuff is out of date when I was looking at majors on their site then they were different on the school’s official site</p>
<p>It’s pretty good for finding basic information about schools and the college search thing is good for finding schools you wouldn’t have thought about otherwise.</p>
<p>The tuition for some schools are not correct and I do agree that the match making service isn’t great. I also have gone on Princeton Review and Peterson’s and they are similar. I haven’t found one match making quiz that is good at all. I would never go to any of the schools they suggested. I think it is better to start looking at different schools and not just look at places a quiz thinks is a good fit.</p>
<p>Yeah, the search thing I’m talking about isn’t the match maker, by the way. That thing just isn’t very good at all. The search though, where you can filter by location, tuition range, etc. is pretty cool.</p>
<p>‘Actionable information’, such as registration for the exam is hard to reach. I wouldn’t call it reasonable fashion when you’re forced to anser a million personal questions simply to register for something mandatory.</p>
<p>No understanding of online security/privacy of the customers whatsoever. Just sent my D a registration ticket with personal info enough for successful identity theft. Nobody asked them to do that of course. Don’t reply to me.</p>
<p>Their college match does take into account selectivity (if we’re talking about the search feature). There are three categories: more than 75% accepted, 50-75% accepted, and fewer than 50% accepted. There are other factors that they ask you for that can help you narrow down the selectivity, such as your SAT scores and the average GPA of accepted students, so it gets you within a close range. It’s not to be relied on for perfection.</p>
<p>I think it’s well-organized and it’s a good place to start looking for colleges if you really have no idea, and it’s also a good place to look up centralized statistics like the SAT score ranges, average GPA, the number of students at a school, where it’s located, etc. Some of the information is definitely outdated, but it’s still in the ballpark.</p>
<p>I don’t think Princeton Review’s college matchmaker is good, either – actually, I think CB’s is better.</p>
<p>The reason they ask so much personal information for registration is because they want to be able to identify your daughter when she goes to take the test. Test stakes are high and test fraud would be common without this kind of identification; students would be taking the test for other people, etc. Plus, the more ID they have, the easier it is to match your daughter’s scores with her profile. When the tests are scored they are de-named for fairness. They need an identifying number to match your records back up with your daughter’s name so they can mail them to you. (And yes, I saw Galapagos’ note, but this is a public forum and I feel if someone doesn’t want someone else to comment on their comment, they shouldn’t post it.)</p>
<p>juillet,</p>
<p>Feel free to comment, no problem. I actually meant that collegeboard folks don’t reply to my emails sent to them directing their attention to their website’s problems.</p>
<p>Asking for personal info for each registration has nothing to do with identification on test site. School ID is enough, they don’t even ask for the second ID (no government issued ID required, for that matter). </p>
<p>So collecting tons of personal info and inability to safely keep it afterwards doesn’t look too good to me.</p>
<p>I do agree, you shouldn’t have to put in so much personal info. But that goes with any site.</p>
<p>Bump one more time.</p>