Admission Addition

College admissions, in plain English

Acceptance odds, real rates, and what your aid offer actually says.

Three free tools and ten honest school pages: a calculator that shows your Reach / Target / Likely bands instead of a fake 4.7%, acceptance rates with the GPA and SAT context most pages skip, and a decoder for the grants-versus-loans shell game inside every financial aid letter. No sign-up. Nothing leaves your device.

Runs on your device No accounts, no leads sold Estimates labeled as estimates

The tools

  • Acceptance odds calculator

    Enter your GPA, optional test scores, and state. See honest bands across 25 schools at once — including the in-state / out-of-state splits publics don't put on the sticker.

  • GPA calculator (high school & college)

    Letter grades plus credits in, unweighted and weighted GPA out — with a plain explanation of which one colleges actually look at.

  • Financial aid offer decoder

    Your letter says "award." Some of it says loan. Sort the free money from the debt before you accept anything.

Acceptance rates, with the numbers that matter beside them

One rate per school is a headline, not a strategy. Twenty-five schools, each page pairing the overall rate with the GPA band, SAT/ACT middle 50%, deadlines, resident vs non-resident tuition — and the residency split where it changes everything.

How to build a list that makes sense

The pattern counselors keep repeating: a couple of Likely schools you'd genuinely be happy at, a handful of Targets where your GPA and scores sit inside the middle 50%, and no more than a couple of Reaches. The calculator applies that same logic to your numbers — start there, then read the pages of the schools that came out better than you expected.

How our estimates work

Everything on this site is built from public figures: each school's acceptance rate, its Common Data Set middle-50% bands, and its published deadlines and tuition. The calculator is a transparent heuristic — it shifts a school's base rate up or down according to where your GPA and optional scores fall relative to those bands, with a residency adjustment for public universities. It is an orientation tool, not a prediction, and it cannot see essays, rigor, recommendations, or context — the things that actually decide close calls.

Figures are approximate and most-recent publicly reported (generally the fall 2024 entering class). Confirm anything that matters on the school's official site. Admission Addition is independent and sells nothing — no leads, no data, no counseling packages.

Acceptance rates, with the numbers that matter beside them

One rate per school is a headline, not a strategy. Twenty-five schools, each page pairing the overall rate with the GPA band, SAT/ACT middle 50%, deadlines, resident vs non-resident tuition — and the residency split where it changes everything.

How to build a list that makes sense

The pattern counselors keep repeating: a couple of Likely schools you'd genuinely be happy at, a handful of Targets where your GPA and scores sit inside the middle 50%, and no more than a couple of Reaches. The calculator applies that same logic to your numbers — start there, then read the pages of the schools that came out better than you expected.

How our estimates work

Everything on this site is built from public figures: each school's acceptance rate, its Common Data Set middle-50% bands, and its published deadlines and tuition. The calculator is a transparent heuristic — it shifts a school's base rate up or down according to where your GPA and optional scores fall relative to those bands, with a residency adjustment for public universities. It is an orientation tool, not a prediction, and it cannot see essays, rigor, recommendations, or context — the things that actually decide close calls.

Figures are approximate and most-recent publicly reported (generally the fall 2024 entering class). Confirm anything that matters on the school's official site. Admission Addition is independent and sells nothing — no leads, no data, no counseling packages.