Explanation of College Selection Results

The chancing calculator works best if you add as many inputs as possible and disclose your race, ethnicity, gender, major, AP test scores, college courses, honors courses, and rank if possible. If you are only entering 3 data points then your output is not going to be very accurate.

If you first start with a college list of safety, targets, and reaches in your child's preference, and enter a complete chancing profile you should be able to compare and contrast the published stats from the CV predictions.

Some schools will never show better than 40-45% especially the Top tier Ivy League schools and Caltech + MIT. If the average IVY is like 6.8% published acceptance rate, anything over 20% is very good and 3X the published stats.

Now if the school you tried as an example had a published acceptance rate of 45% and you got 40%-50%, then either you didn't put enough data points or this is a target for your child. Play around with it and you will get the knack.

Also, keep in mind that top Ivys actually use up 200 data points in their admissions process and this chancing engine is only a super light subset of what they use. If there were 100 required data points, very few people would use it on here.

Hope that helps.