College Research Tools You’ll Love!
If you need some tips on how to navigate college websites so you can find great matches, click here to read our previous post. But outside the college website, there are also tons of resources that can help you determine fit and learn about the school. Here are just a few of our favorites to check out:
College Board’s Big Future Tool:
This is a resource worth checking out. The big Future tool allows you to filter schools that match your grades and scores, and there are other cool school-list building features as well. Click here to give it a spin!
At collegeconfidential.com, we particularly love their college profiles and search features! The college profiles are incredibly user-friendly and informative, offering info about acceptance rates, financial aid and tons more. There’s also a new AI admissions calculator tool that will give you a rough idea of your chances based on your scores and profile. We suggest not taking the tool’s info as the final word since determining fit and chances are complex. But the tool can help give you a sense of how you might fare.
CollegeVine is a great resource for just about everything related to college applications. Like College Confidential, they also have an AI tool to calculate chances of admittance to various programs. The website also offers searchable college profiles and fantastic tips on writing admissions essays for specific schools. We highly recommend CollegeVine!
Info About Demonstrated Need and Finances
As you research colleges, keep in mind how generous, or not, the school is with scholarships and meeting demonstrated need. This article from Cappex.com is helpful in identifying where many schools fall on this spectrum. The article also offers an insightful explanation of what demonstrated need really means. Click here to check it out.
CollegeSimply.com
One of our favorite features on this site is their comparison tool, which you can find here. You can select up to four schools to compare at a glance to see helpful info related to financial aid, test scores, and the school’s admission rates.