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Credibility receipt
What Benchmark is built on.
Benchmark is not an admissions office. The score is an estimated fit percentage derived from the target school or tier's published admit rate and the student's profile strength — built from public school data, CDS admissions factors, and empirical tier anchors.
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Not a guarantee
The same credibility receipt, explained for parents — no jargon, no statistics lecture. Opens in a fresh page.
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Data Backbone
Updated layerBenchmark starts with a national four-year admissions backbone, then adds school-level CDS and profile overlays where they can be matched to the Benchmark school directory.
Outcome Backtest
Public profilesThe calibration runner parses public, self-reported admissions-results profiles, maps listed schools into the Benchmark school backbone, scores the profile, and compares accepted results to denied or waitlisted results for the same public profile.
Method
How the test works- Profile parsingPublic outcome posts are parsed into the same academic, testing, activities, awards, context, and fit fields the Benchmark questionnaire uses.
- School matchingListed colleges are mapped into the Benchmark school backbone so the score is run against the same school-specific or tier-specific targets parents use.
- Directional auditThe goal is not to prove guaranteed admission. The goal is to test whether accepted outcomes usually score above denied outcomes for the same public profile set.
Guardrails
ImportantBenchmark scores competitiveness against a chosen tier or selected school. They are not admissions decisions, official probabilities, guarantees, or promises that a student will be admitted or rejected.
- What it can sayWhether the visible evidence looks weak, ordinary, competitive, or distinctive for the selected comparison level.
- What it cannot knowPrivate reader notes, institutional priorities, essays, recommendations, hooks, final applicant pool shape, or last-minute enrollment strategy.
- How it improvesParent-reported outcomes are stored with Snapshot history, then used to audit score separation and recalibrate future deterministic rules.