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My Chances

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

What Are My Chances?” is a free, fun and interactive app by CampusCompare that instantly calculates your odds based on college acceptance rates at any U.S. college.  In today’s competitive college market, the college chances question plagues many college applicants who are worried about college acceptance rates. The college search is difficult enough, but the challenges don’t stop after you’ve narrowed down your college choices to reach, target and safety schools. You still have to decide- which one is the right college for me? Are my chances of getting into that college realistic?

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The “What Are My Chances?” app lets you plug in your academic information (including sat scores, class rank, AP exam scores, and student involvement) and then yields realistic results based on a statistical algorithm and up-to-date admissions standards and college acceptance rates. The tool is easy and fun, but results are candid and unforgiving! Ultimately, it’s a crucial step in the college selection process so you can be efficient in your college application process. You wouldn’t want to waste your time applying for a college that wasn’t your perfect college match or miss out on the top college for you, would you? Rage a battle against your friends on our “What Are My Chances” Facebook app, or take the CampusCompare “What Are My Chances” college chances challenge now!

AP Exam and AP Course Information: Smart Kids Skip Class

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

If you want to get ahead in the college admissions process and take college courses before you even get there, then you might want to know about the Advanced Placement Exam, coming up this month.

Each May you can take an Advanced Placement exam and if you get a good test score (the scoring is between 1 through 5 with 5 being the highest), you can be exempt from a first-year college course in specific subjects.

Each college’s policy is different, but most accept scores of 4 or 5, and some accept scores of 3.

The College Board, a non-profit organization, has run the AP program since 1955.  The program offers college-level courses at high schools across the US.

Even if you don’t take an AP course, you can still take an AP exam. So if you are homeschooled or if you are at a school that doesn’t offer AP courses, you still have a chance.

The exams cost $84 each, though the cost can be subsidized by local or state programs. A number of states and municipalities independent of the College Board have partially or fully subsidized the cost.

Sometimes being a nerd gives you more time to be cool.