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My daughter did just did college applications and her school used a service call SCOIR. For all of the colleges she was interested, they had a two dimensional
by hardtke 4y ago
My daughter did just did college applications and her school used a service call SCOIR. For all of the colleges she was interested, they had a two dimensional (test score, GPA) graph that showed all recent applicants from her school and whether or not the applicant got accepted into that particular college. You could then see exactly what your chances are. For schools with too few applicants they did not generate this graph.
After looking at her college choices it seemed like less of crapshoot. The patterns were pretty consistent.
- whimsicalism 4y agoYeah, yet another thing that benefits generally affluent/elite schools (yes, a suburban public school in California would likely fall in that category). My HS had a similar service (I think it was called naviance or something like that), but we did not have enough datapoints for most of the graphs I would be interested in.
- curiousllama 4y agoThat’s been around a while - I had a similar thing. Learned a lot from it. Public schools have more heuristics. I could draw a box around who’s gonna get in vs not - everything but SAT/GPA seemed irrelevant. This included top state schools (eg UVA & Michigan). Top private schools had a similar box - but it was much more “possible to admit” than “definitely in”. You’d draw a similar box as for state schools, and it was random within that box. There were 1-2 individual outliers per school. Idk why (data excluded athletes, allegedly), but was interesting - there a back door to Michigan, even with a 3.0, if you can find it.