Quick update – we’ve updated the system to display the predicted admissions outcome for each applicant on each school’s page. For example, if you visit the page of University of Illinois you’ll see that the model predicts admission to that school about 75% of the time.
At the University of Virginia, it predicts admission correctly about 62% of the time, while at the University of Pennsylvania, it’s right over 80% of the time.
What do you think of the accuracy, or of the predictions in general?
Check out the ‘My Tools’ link (only works if you’re logged in). On the page, you’ll now see a link to “Academic Matches”. This page will give you a list of the 10 schools that we think are the most closely matched to your academic characteristics.
Try it out and tell us what you think.
Today we’re rolling out a fun addition to MyChances.net: a currency system.
From now on, you’ll earn credits each time you post on this site. You can keep those credits in your wallet, or you can put them in the ‘bank’ and let them earn interest on an hourly basis.
With the credits, you can ‘buy’ shares of any of the colleges on this site. There are only 50 shares of each college to begin with, and each college’s share price is set based on its popularity. Some colleges are only 10 credits, while others already cost 300 credits per share.
You can buy colleges from the Shop, and you can sell them to other visitors at a price of your choosing by using the ‘Trade Centre’.
In the future, we’ll be adding new ways to earn credits and to spend them. We also plan on creating features that will only be available to people who own a share of college, just to spice things up a bit.
As always, feedback is welcome.
Hi everyone,
For the last several months MyChances.net has been on servers that have just been getting too slow. You’ve probably noticed that when browsing the site, you have to wait quite some time for pages to load. I’ve now switched the site to faster servers, so that shouldn’t be a problem. Because of the upgrade, you might notice some problems as I finish up the transition. If so, send feedback and let me know so I can resolve whatever comes up.
In the meantime, happy college hunting!
Today we’ve added a new option for you to browse by: Selectivity Ranking. As you might know by now, we’ve developed a formula to give each school a selectivity score based on how difficult it is to get into that school.
Now, we’ve ranked the colleges and given them Selectivity Rankings. You can ‘Browse Colleges’ by these rankings, showing you the most difficult to the least difficult schools to get into.
Our Google-enhanced site search (at the top right corner of each page) has been nonfunctional for the last few days, but it’s fixed now.
It might come in handy if you’re doing something like searching for ‘UCLA’ but can’t find it in our college list because our built-in search just isn’t that good yet (but we’re working on that).
Example:
Go to ‘Browse Colleges’
Search for ‘UCLA’
Results: 0
Now type UCLA into the search at the top of this page, and you’ll be whisked to the right place.
Are there things on this site that just don’t work the way you think they should? Are we missing something? Have we designed something in a stupid way, or left something out that you need?
Reply to this thread and let us know. Bluntness, bitter sarcasm, and general outrage are welcome in your replies.
As of today, we’ve introduced the +/- symbols next to each university’s name on the university profile pages. This allows you to add and remove schools from your list in even more simply than before. Try it out and tell us what you think.
I’m happy to introduce College Comparisons to MyChances.net. We’ve always had a list of ‘Peer Schools’ – schools that share many applicants with School X (whichever school you’re browsing). We’ve gone beyond that now, though. When you visit School X’s page, you’ll be able to see:
* Which schools students prefer more (e.g., if students get into both School X and School Y, they commonly attend School Y)
* Which schools students consider equally (e.g., if students get into both School X and School Y, they sometimes go to one and sometimes to the other)
* Which schools students prefer less (e.g., if students get into both School X and School Y, they commonly attend School X)
Hopefully this will help you broaden you college search and discover some new schools that you weren’t previously aware of. As always, good luck with the application process!
Member ‘ckmets13′ asked for us to start including IB courses on the site, so we’ve done that. You can enter up to 10 IB courses to display in your profile.
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