I put my kids stats into collegevine for this last year, and the algorithm has been very accurate for kid. He got into all safeties and targets, so outperformed expectations in those two categories, but had a little worse results in reaches. Still, go into one reach out of 7 and is thrilled to go! Every other reach was a WL or denial.
Collegevine doesn’t adjust for majors, so you’ll need to reduce expectations if you’re CS or engineering boy. |
What does it use in its algorithm except sat/act and gpa? |
He's majoring in Business with a concentration in Financial Technology and a minor in Data Science. For schools without business majors, he indicated economics, I think, as an intended major |
Can the posters whose kids applied and were admitted to “safeties” name the schools? It would help to know where to find these schools. |
My kids safety on collegevine was University of Pittsburgh. Targets were VTech, W&M, and UMD. Collegevine adjusts for activity accomplishment and number of AP/DE classes. Also SAT and GPA. |
How does collegevine work if your child attends a school that does not weight GPAs? Can you weight them yourself and if so, is it still accurate? |
My kid wanted to be in the South, so safeties/targets (none of these have an 80% admissions rate, but are close to a sure thing for a very high stats kid) were: Sewanee Rhodes University of Tennessee SMU Auburn (no longer a safety, at least for OOS) Admitted with substantial merit aid to all of the above. You can eliminate a lot of stress if you can find an acceptable safety/target school that notifies early for EA. DC applied to Auburn early and got an admission notice in the fall. Pitt serves this function for people who want to be in a more northerly direction. I think they would have been happy there, so it took the pressure off re: applying to "true safeties." |
My child’s safeties were:
Indiana South Carolina Kansas |
Reading is fundamental. That is NOT what the study says. It claims that only that 30 kids get a "bump" from being legacies, not that only 30 kids are legacies. |
1000% This happens year after year after year. High stats do not change the fact that any school with less than 20-25% acceptance rate is a REACH for everyone. If you don't recognize this fact, the process can be extremely brutal. But if you accept reality/facts, then it doesn't have to be so brutal |
It was like that Pre-Test Optional as well. Fact is T25 schools never really considered much of a difference between a 1540 and a 1600. once a kid surpassed the "lower bar" for test scores it doesn't matter what their actual test score was. So yes, your 1600 kid is the same as a 1520 or 1540 kid, the school looked at everything else. |
It only takes unweighted gpa for everyone. You then enter the number of AP/IB/DE |
Thank you and also to the other PPs who IDed their child’s safeties. Much appreciated! |
How can a school with SINGLE DIGIT acceptance rates "seem like target for your kid"? That means it's a crap shoot for everyone. They get 96K+ applicants. I suspect most of those are "highly qualified" students. It's a high reach for everyone. Glad your kid got in, but he got lucky and got into a reach. You did not pick a balanced list of Reach, target, safety, likelies. 75% of the kids applying to those schools have the same stats as your kid |
And those legacy kids are not getting in without a competitive resume. Except for ones who's family name is on a building on campus (think 10Ms ++++ donated to the university). Most of those legacy kids would have still been ideal candidates without that box checked |