A university shortlist with the balance built in
Good university shortlisting is not eight dream schools or eight safe bets. This free college match tool takes your GPA, your budget and the regions you actually want, and builds a balanced plan: 2 reach, 4 match and 2 safety universities, every one classified from data the universities publish, with the rule printed on the page.
Your profile
The builder covers ... of the 500 universities in the StudyAbroadConsulting dataset (...). Figures come straight from the dataset; nothing is estimated.
Your balanced shortlist
Classifications come from the StudyAbroadConsulting dataset of published university figures. A band label is a statistics shortcut, not an admissions promise; check each university's own pages before you apply.
How the lists are built
- GPA first. If a university publishes an average admitted GPA, we compare yours to it: more than 0.2 below the average is a Reach, within 0.2 either way is a Match, and more than 0.2 above is a Safety.
- Acceptance rate as the fallback. If a university publishes no average admitted GPA but does publish an acceptance rate, the rate decides: under 20% is a Reach, 20% to 60% is a Match, and over 60% is a Safety. Those cards are labeled "by acceptance rate", so you always know which rule placed a school.
- No data, no label. Universities that publish neither figure cannot be classified from published data and are not shown. Your plan prints how many were left out for that reason.
- Filters come first. Your budget and region choices narrow the list before anything is classified. When a budget is set, universities whose international tuition is not published are set aside as well, because we cannot check them against your budget; we would rather leave a school out than guess its price.
- Fixed quotas, honest shortfalls. The plan aims for 2 Reach, 4 Match and 2 Safety schools, ordered within each band by world rank (QS first, then THE; unranked schools last). If a band comes up short, the plan says so instead of padding it with schools that do not belong there.
- No test scores. This builder does not ask for SAT, GRE or language scores. The dataset's score fields mix too many formats and estimates to compare honestly, so classification uses GPA and acceptance rates only.
- Coverage. This builder covers ... of the dataset's 500 universities; ... of them publish an average admitted GPA or an acceptance rate and can be classified.
- A label is not a promise. A band label is a statistics shortcut. Universities weigh essays, recommendations and much more, and published averages describe past classes, not your decision.