Should you apply Early Decision to the school you're leaning toward?
Free: what your school published, and where your score sits. $9.99 once: the full answer for your whole list. No account needed.
The numbers are each college’s own. How we read them → · The arithmetic, worked through →
We don't publish numbers we can't source.
- The price 570 US colleges officially post for one year
- What families actually paid at 542 of them, split by family income — the average for families who received federal aid
- A link to the source under every figure on the site
- In December 2026 we grade our predictions in public — including the ones we got wrong
We're not a consultancy. No counselors, no $30,000 packages — the data layer under one, $9.99 through Nov 15.
The three ways an application goes wrong.
01
Spending it on a school that was already going to say yes.
Some schools on your list your scores already clear. Using the one binding application there buys nothing.
02
Spending it on a school that was never going to say yes.
At the most selective schools the Early Decision bump is real but small. The filing shows exactly how small.
03
Finding out in March there was nothing on the list to fall back on.
One number tells you the chance your whole list says no. Most families never compute it.
See it on a real example
One list. One answer.
A sample 8-school list, SAT 1480. Open the document — the whole thing, no signup.
Read the sample document →The path
How it works
Enter your list
The 1 to 15 schools you're actually applying to, your SAT or ACT, and your household income bracket. About two minutes.
See what each school published
For every school on your list: its published Early Decision and regular-round admit rates, and where your score sits against them. Free.
See the odds on your whole list
One number — the chance that your list, as it stands, produces no admit at all. Free.
Get the answer
$9.99 through Nov 15. The one school to spend your Early Decision on, why, and what it does to that number — plus alternates that lower it.
Recorded, then scored
Your answer is recorded on the day it's issued and checked against real December results. 3 revisions within 90 days.
The difference
Why PrepToDone
Each college’s own filing, not a model
The Early Decision figures come from the file each college publishes itself, where the school publishes one. The regular-round rate comes from the U.S. Department of Education. Not an estimate, not an AI guess — a link under every figure.
The whole list, read together
The answer is made across your list — which slot to spend, and what it does to the chance of zero admits — not one school at a time.
Recorded, then graded in public
Every answer is written to a record that cannot be edited afterwards, and each December we publish how they scored — including the ones we got wrong.
38 Early Decision filings read · 483 application deadlines verified for 2026–27 · 26 filings from the 2025–26 cycle already read
The deliverable
What you get
Published numbers only
Where a school publishes nothing, the document says so instead of filling it in.
Your list, on one page
Every school on your list: its Early Decision and regular rates, where your SAT sits, and the cost at your family’s income.
The answer
Which school gets your Early Decision, and the alternates that lower your risk.
Pricing
YOUR LIST, DECIDED
One-time · no account · tax included
$9.99 through Nov 15 (regular $49)
14-day money-back guarantee — no questions asked
- An answer on the whole list — how your slots are actually spent, in one line
- The chance every school on your list says no, before and after the schools it tells you to add
- School by school: the published admit rate, where your SAT sits inside the admitted range, and what it costs at your family's income
- Schools to add — below your own score, and under your list's median cost
- Recorded prediction — every placement is written to a record that cannot be edited afterwards, and each December we publish how those predictions scored, including the ones we got wrong
- Every figure is one the school published. Where a school publishes nothing, the document says so instead of filling it in.
- 3 re-scores within 90 days — change the list, then re-score
Most independent counselors charge $4,000–$7,500 for an advising package. The Early Decision answer is $9.99 through Nov 15 (regular $49).
Source: IECA, State of the Profession (2022) — the most recent industry-wide fee survey.
From the data layer
The target keeps moving.
Published acceptance rates, 2021–2025 — the five most recent cycles colleges have published. Every panel is drawn on the same scale from a zero baseline — so the differences you see between schools are the differences in the data.
Harvard University
4.0% → 4.2%
Yale University
5.3% → 4.8%
Brown University
5.5% → 6.3%
University of California-Los Angeles
10.8% → 9.4%
Shared axis: 0–15.0%. Sources: College Scorecard, College Scorecard + IPEDS ADM counts (2026-08-24), CDS 2025-2026 (C1), IPEDS Admissions Survey (NCES). Years shown are the most recent both published and shared by every school on this row. How we build this.
The price a college posts is not what families pay.
Published cost of attendance versus what families actually pay, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard. No signup.
| College | Price the college posts | What families actually payAvg. for families receiving federal aid | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton University(AY 2023–24) | $84,040/yr | $6,128/yr | −93% |
| Stanford University(AY 2023–24) | $87,833/yr | $13,807/yr | −84% |
| University of Chicago(AY 2023–24) | $90,360/yr | $14,860/yr | −84% |
| Vanderbilt University(AY 2023–24) | $89,590/yr | $15,846/yr | −82% |
| California Institute of Technology(AY 2023–24) | $86,886/yr | $16,075/yr | −81% |
International students are not eligible for U.S. federal aid, so they are not in this cohort and typically pay closer to the sticker price.
High-income families typically pay closer to sticker.
Cost data for 570 listed US colleges.
Who else can do this for you?
An AI chatbot doesn't hold each college's filing — and nobody grades its answer in December.
| Capability | AI chatbots | Consultant | PrepToDone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reads my whole list in one pass — every school on it | |||
| Tells me which one school to spend my Early Decision on — and what it does to that number | Needs a session | ||
| A source link on every number | |||
| Publishes how its predictions scored in Dec 2026 — including the wrong ones | |||
| Start right now, without booking a meeting | |||
| Cost | Monthly subscription past the usage limit | $4,000–$7,500 | $9.99 through Nov 15 once |
Source: IECA, State of the Profession (2022) — the most recent industry-wide fee survey. The consultant column describes the category, not any particular firm.
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