I’ve implemented some survey questions to try to begin making the predictions more accurate at some of the tougher schools. If you’re creating a new account, you’ll automatically be asked 7 easy questions (no writing involved). If you’ve already got an account, why not update your account so the algorithm can improve our predictions for you?
(Note – the prediction algorithm is not using this info yet because the site just started collecting it, but this will change in the weeks to come.)
Today I updated the prediction models for the first time in a few months, so you might see a shuffle in your predictions as the model updates. We’re still working with a relatively small sample size in the low thousands. As the site grows, the predictions will become less labile.
As things currently stand, the site is, on the whole 90% accurate (see the bottom piece of data on that page).
Also, the Admission Game has been updated to properly take into account the predictions made by each school’s model.
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