The Chancing Engine Percentages are not what you think they should be. As an experiment I put a long list of Ivys, Elites, LACs, and Various other colleges to see what my current chances are. My gut tells me some are correct, others not so much. There is no possibility in my mind that a bunch of liberal arts colleges would be harder than the Ivys and MIT to get into. Just to humor myself I copied the list for you to see what I mean. Then I re-shuffled the list to what I think it really is like in this admissions cycle. I wonder if any of you have done something like this and scratched your head why things just seem to be very out of place.
LEFT SIDE is the Chancing Order and % for my college list. RIGHT SIDE is how I would order them.
Chancing Engine /MY ADJUSTED LIST
Caltech 31% /Harvard University
Yale University 32% /Yale University
Harvard University 33% /Stanford University
Pomona College 34% /MIT
Swarthmore College 34% /Caltech
Stanford University 36% /Columbia University
Princeton University 36% /Princeton University
Bowdoin College 37% /Brown University
Columbia University 37% /UPenn
Brown University 38% /UChicago
Colby 39% /Duke
Duke 39% /Dartmouth
Amherst 41% /Pomona College
UChicago 42% /Swarthmore College
MIT 46% /Cornell University
Dartmouth 47% /Vanderbilt University
Rice 48% /Northwestern
Northwestern 49% /Johns Hopkins University
Williams 49% /Amherst
UPenn 49% /Bowdoin College
Claremont McKenna 49% /Tufts University
Johns Hopkins 52% /Claremont McKenna
Colorado College 55% /Rice
UC Berkeley 56% /Barnard College
Barnard College 56% /UCLA
UCLA 57% /UC Berkeley
Cornell University 57% /Wash U in St. Louis
Vanderbilt University 59% /New York University
USAir Force Academy 61% /Williams
Grinnell College 62% /Colby
Wash U in St. Louis 63% /Boston College
Carleton College 65% /Boston University
Tufts University 66% /Grinnell College
Middlebury College67% /Carleton College
Washington& Lee 67% /Middlebury College
Univ Notre Dame 69% /University of Notre Dame
Davidson College 70% /Colorado College
Northeastern 73% /Washington& Lee Univ.
US Mil Westpoint 76% /USAir Force Academy
Reed College 77% /US Military -Westpoint
University Virginia 78% /University of Virginia
Vassar College 81% /Vassar College
Smith College 82% /Davidson College
Wake Forest 83% /Northeastern University
Tulane University 86% /Tulane University
New York University 86% /Wake Forest University
Boston University 86% /Macalester College
Boston College 90% /Smith College
Macalester College 91% /Reed College
Mount Holyoke 94% /Mount Holyoke College
I got an example for a potential inaccuracy from the changing simulator.
New York University ranked 28, with an acceptance rate of 21%, my admission chance (%) is 54. A similar university, University of Virginia ranked 25 with an acceptance rate of 23%, my admission chance is 32%. That's a large 20% gap, the data for NYU must have some errors and is inaccurate.
@CameronBameron do you agree that my chance for NYU is overestimated? Or is there something about NYU I don't know?
Yeah, that doesn't add up because NYU this year has a 12.2% admit rate and UVA is 18.68%. I think the spread between UVA/NYU should be about 10% so I'd have UVA at 30-35% NYU at 40-45% something like that.
I believe it's important for us not to blindly trust the chancing simulator. Otherwise, it's easy to make false judgements for yourself. We need to have a greater sense of reality. I recommend that a sign should be shown for the potential inaccuracy and let students have more self-awareness.
Do you think your percentage is underestimated or overestimated?
For Ivys, and Elites no. But certainly all the Liberal Arts Colleges are out of whack as well as 2nd and 3rd tier schools. No way BU and BC are easier than NEastern for applicants like me. They are better schools even though the admit rate this school was a mess.
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