How PrepToDone scores your profile

What we evaluate.

The scoring engine runs on your own inputs across four parts of an application:

• Academic record — your GPA, read on the US 4.0 scale.
• Standardized testing — your SAT or ACT score. When you provide both, the engine uses whichever places you higher against a given school.
• Activities — your extracurricular involvement.
• Awards — your honors and recognitions.

These come from you. We do not infer them, and we do not scrape them from third-party reviews or rankings.

The data we compare you against.

Each school's admissions figures — acceptance rate, admitted-student SAT and ACT 25th and 75th percentiles, and admitted GPA — come from official, public sources:

• IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) — federal data from the U.S. Department of Education.
• College Scorecard — federal data from the U.S. Department of Education.
• Common Data Set — the standardized survey universities publish about themselves. This is the colleges' own reporting, so we never label it federal.

We cite the source for every school-level number. IPEDS and College Scorecard are attributed as federal; the Common Data Set is attributed to the colleges directly.

How we report your standing.

For each school, PrepToDone places your test score within that school's admitted-student 25th-to-75th percentile range and classifies the school as a reach, match, or safety. You see where you sit in the admitted band — the same published range universities report each year — not a single manufactured number.

The reach / match / safety call is a structural read of your position against official data. It describes where your profile lands today, and pairs with a gap analysis that shows what to strengthen.

What we deliberately do not do.

We do not predict admission. PrepToDone never reports a percentage figure for being admitted or rejected, because no honest tool can promise an outcome. We report position against admitted-student data, and the disciplined next steps that follow from it. The promise is preparedness, not a guarantee.