MyChances.net

Two changes today:

1) Each college page now has a “discussion” tab. Discussion from news sources, blogs, and our own applicants has been moved there. Soon, but not yet, you’ll be able to make comments directly on the school’s page.

2) The “discussion” tab allowed us to free up a lot of space in the “Applicants & Predictions” page for each college. In its place, we now show you the students’ class rank and home state. More to come on this.

As of today, when you visit a university’s page on this site, you’ll find a link to its map in the deep blue menu bar running along the top of the page. Fun things are in the works now that we’ve got the Google Maps working. For now, any suggestions? (If your university doesn’t have a map, it’s because we don’t have its address - send it our way and we’ll update the database.)

Today, I finally put the finishing touches on a form I’ve been working on for a couple of weeks now. It’s the page where you create your college profile. This is an important page, because the computer largely bases its predictions on the information you give it here. Starting today, you’ll be asked to indicate which high school you’re attending (out of a list of about 35,000). If it’s not there, you can easily add it without leaving the page. And for privacy’s sake, you’re invited to hide your high school information before you’re even asked for it.

The benefit in disclosing where you go to high school is that it will allow for better predictions.  Unless you think that it’s an accident that Stuyvesant and Andover flood the Ivies with their graduates every year, you’ll probably agree with me that high school “strength” is a fair indicator of future college acceptance. Well, even if you don’t agree with me, we’ll be testing this hypothesis together over the next few weeks.

Are there any patterns that you think will jump out? How do you think your your high school will compare?