About My Chances.net

What is My Chances.net?

My Chances.net is a project devoted to increasing the quantity and quality of information available to college applicants. It's also a fun and helpful tool for keeping track of your applications.

Why does the world need another college admissions tool?

Traditional resources, such as The Princeton Review and US News, can be helpful because they distill large quantities of information into manageable chunks. However, the details are necessarily lost in the process.

The goal of this project is to give college applicants access to both types of information: raw, personal details, and mathematical analysis. By creating a profile, students contribute their information to further improve this analysis. In return, they reap the benefit of seeing data from thousands of other applicants. People have interesting and helpful contributions to make to one another, and we're here to help facilitate that.

So, this site is here to lure me into some expensive college loan company's clutches, right?

No. Well, it is possible that their ads will show up on the Adsense ads we run on the site, but the site itself is not a secret front for some other organization, and it receives no direct funding from any group. It's truly a product of passion, and we hope that you share the same interest in college, and in education broadly writ, that we do.

Who runs this site?

James Pirruccello is a Yale graduate and a medical student at Johns Hopkins.
Brent Pirruccello is a recent Stanford grad.

You can follow the site's progress on our blog or on twitter.

Statistics

Aggregate statistics

Schools in the database:

1744

Schools that have admissions data:

1470

Applicants:

54470

Applications:

236280

Applications per school:

135.5

Offers of admission:

28870

Updates in the last 24 hours:

206

Prediction statistics

Overall prediction accuracy:

Note: This is an overestimate of the true accuracy. For some schools, our members have listed only acceptances, but no rejections. Therefore, 'accuracy' at those schools will trivially be 100%.

89.48%*

Credits and attribution

First and foremost, credit goes to the students, parents, counselors, and educators who use this site. Without their support, this would be impossible. Other credits include:

Google - For their Maps API

GeoNames - For their geographic data

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education - For their official college data, official high school data.