Setting aside the issue of relying on a recommendation engine with questionable data sources (your Facebook profile, and wherever they scraped their college dat

Setting aside the issue of relying on a recommendation engine with questionable data sources (your Facebook profile, and wherever they scraped their college data from) to influence one of the most important decisions of your life, I wonder how accurate their projections are for where you could get in, based on your grades/scores. "Your Personal Index is based on your family background, location, interests, extracurriculars, essays, social network, and other related factors. " I'd really be interested in how they weight family background. This makes a huge difference at some schools, a big difference at others, and so on and so on. Have they ranked colleges in this manner? Are they taking into account the fact that many schools are facing massive budget holes and are thus more likely to accept students who can pay their way? Source: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/reed/ http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/reed/