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Your Early Decision Reading.

Two steps. Tell us where you applied early and what has happened so far. Then see where your scores sit at each school on your list, against that school's own published numbers. It is free. If you have applied, the price is your report.

How the Reading works

For each school it puts your score against the middle 50% of that school's enrolled first-years, from its own Common Data Set, and shows the school's published Early Decision admit rate beside the rate for everyone else. It then gives one of four readings, by a fixed rule:

• Long reach: your score is below the school's 25th percentile.
• Likely: your score is above its 75th percentile and the school admits at least 25% of all applicants.
• Target with ED: your score is at or above its median and its published Early Decision admit rate is at least 20%.
• Reach: everything else.

If you enter both tests, the SAT is used. A school that publishes no median for your test can read Reach but not Target with ED; one that publishes no composite at all for your test gets no reading for it, so try the other test. Schools that do not publish an Early Decision rate can still read Likely, which uses their overall rate, but never Target with ED. This is a reading of published numbers against your scores, not a probability. Scores are one part of an application, and many of these schools are test-optional.