How accurate are CollegeVine predictions?

[Anonymous]

MIT "jumped" from 9 to 11%! Double digits baby!!

[Anonymous]

Interesting. Just did for DC who is already admitted ED for this fall. CollegeVine describes DC's ED as a reach. It was. We think college counselor's LOR, excellent ACT score, and being full pay helped.

[Anonymous]

I just looked at that site. How much identidying data do you have to provide? And who do they sell it to? I exited when I saw you had to create an account.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at that site. How much identidying data do you have to provide? And who do they sell it to? I exited when I saw you had to create an account.

I used my name and birthday (instead of my kid’s) and put in guesstimated scores and gpa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at that site. How much identidying data do you have to provide? And who do they sell it to? I exited when I saw you had to create an account.

I used my name and birthday (instead of my kid’s) and put in guesstimated scores and gpa.

I haven’t opted into anything that I know of and I haven’t received anything unsolicited. You can opt in to provide your info to colleges.

[Anonymous]

It also gives advice about going test optional or not. I was surprised, given that it asks for high school and geographic location, does anyone know how accurate that advice is? I had thought our child should go test optional at W&M and UVA, but it advised that submitting score was (narrowly) better based on the profile.

[Anonymous]

They fixed the glitch with the women’s colleges chancing. But now the whole list is depressing. Not looking at T20 but even if I change DD’s stats to 1600 and UW 4.0, it looks hopeless, except at large state flagships.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at that site. How much identidying data do you have to provide? And who do they sell it to? I exited when I saw you had to create an account.

Good questions. Can schools see what other schools your kid has listed as "considering" or "applying?" I mean, this is just me (helicopter mom) playing around with information, trying to figure out which schools to recommend to my kid--I'm not sure he's even aware that college vine exists. But I don't want anything actually "official" or schools actually seeing what I'm randomly entering- he's only a rising junior so we aren't really sure what his GPA, SAT score, etc. will look like in 1.5 years--but I put in some numbers that I think seem likely....Will schools see if those numbers change (up or down) and judge that?
Ugh. Maybe I should just delete the account.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at that site. How much identidying data do you have to provide? And who do they sell it to? I exited when I saw you had to create an account.

Good questions. Can schools see what other schools your kid has listed as "considering" or "applying?" I mean, this is just me (helicopter mom) playing around with information, trying to figure out which schools to recommend to my kid--I'm not sure he's even aware that college vine exists. But I don't want anything actually "official" or schools actually seeing what I'm randomly entering- he's only a rising junior so we aren't really sure what his GPA, SAT score, etc. will look like in 1.5 years--but I put in some numbers that I think seem likely....Will schools see if those numbers change (up or down) and judge that?
Ugh. Maybe I should just delete the account.

You should be able to change the privacy settings (and don’t use real names)