Admit Insights is a practical tool for assessing a student’s chance of admittance to their college or university of choice. Admit Insight provides students with an individually tailored assessment of their admission chances. Although the service cannot ensure a one hundred percent guarantee, it does provide an evaluation of where students generally stand in comparison to their peers.
Admit Insights utilizes many facets of applicants to provide them with an assessment. The most important aspect colleges assess in all applicants is their academic performance. Admit Insights provides students with the opportunity to not only input their grade point average throughout their high school career (for each year), but also the type of courses they have taken and their duration in length. For instance, students could indicate that they have taken mathematics all four years of high school and that they have pursued mathematics at the honors or AP/IB level. Admit Insights also requires input of standardized test scores to provide for a basis to nationally compare the candidate. After the student’s academic criterion are inputted, Admit Insights produces a score report on the student’s academic performance and places them in a percentile. The unique aspect about Admit Insights with regard to standardized tests is that it provides a thorough analysis of the test results. For instance, the service can tell the applicant which standardized test to submit to colleges (SAT vs. ACT scores). The service can also detect if there is a discrepancy between grades on the transcript and standardized test score results and how to interpret the results.
Admit Insights is also able to assess an applicant’s extracurricular activities or any other non-academic criterion (“intangibles” as the service calls it). Admit Insights is able to provide feedback based on the extracurricular information inputted. For instance, when an applicant does not provide any work history, Admit Insights states that an applicant lacking job experience could be a potential negative factor on ones college admissions application. Admit Insights is also able to provide tailored information by asking for “intangible” information such as the duration of involvement and leadership roles in extracurricular activities. Using this information will prompt Admit Insights to either suggest the applicant to get more involved or to tell the applicant to keep up the good work. Honors and awards are also utilized in the “equation” to predicting college admission. As with the academics section, Admit Insights provides applicants with a percentile on where they stand, in terms of extracurricular involvement, compared to other students.
In the end, Admit Insights allows an applicant to select up to five colleges for calculating admissions chances. Admit Insights categorizes the applicant in five categories: extreme safety, safety, match, stretch, and extreme stretch. A graph is provided to show exactly where an applicant fits. For example, a particular college may be on the verge of being a stretch, but still lie on the match zone. Overall, Admit Insights provides a low cost option to assisting applicants and their families in the college admissions process.
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