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ThickEnvelope.com - can your teen get into the top 80 colleges?
Before forking over a hefty application fee, wouldn't it be nice to
know whether your teen has a chance of getting in to one of the top 80
colleges? Two Harvard alumni has devised a way to find out.
Grant
Ujifusa and Richard Sorenson, dorm mates from college, had an epiphany
one day that led to www.ThickEnvelope.com, a Web site that calculates
probabilities for admission into 80 of the most competitive
universities. Sorensen is a former Assistant Director of Admissions at
Harvard with more than 30 years of experience in college admissions
work. These qualifications provide confidence in the services offered.
Students, armed with standardized test scores, numerical or percentile
class rank, the number of students in your class or your grade point
average based on a 4.0 system spend about 15 minutes filling out an
online application. After paying $79.95 with a Visa or Mastercard,
results are displayed.
The Web site's home page provides some interesting insight into the
application process and also provides information on interpreting the
results provided. For example:
"Keep in mind that many top colleges admit less than 20% of those
applying. So a ThickEnvelope score of, say, 60% would mean that you
have a much better than average chance of getting in. A score of 25% or
30% indicates that a particular college might be a reasonable reach."
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