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As we come closer and closer to the time when many colleges start to inform applicants of whether or not they were accepted, you’re likely to start stressing more and more over the future.

Sure, you’ve done all you can up to this point, and it’s just a waiting game, but there’s always going to be that nervousness of if you got into your schools or if (God forbid) everything went haywire.

I’ve been looking around online to try to find websites to help answer that very same question for my girlfriend. I’ve found two very helpful sites:

I’ve mentioned College Board before. In addition to being the website where you sign up for SATs, College Board provides a lot of information about both careers and colleges. When it comes to making a guess about whether or not you’ll get into a school, I recommend looking through “How do I stack up?”. Simply search for a college, and on the main page for that college, you should see a box with that title in the bottom. Just fill in the information and see how you compare to everybody else.

A new website I’ve discovered is MyChances.net. Here, you can fill out a profile about yourself and receive your chances as a percentage. The profile on this site is more extensive than College Board’s — it also asks about many other aspects of your life, including the estimated quality of your essays to hardships in your life.

How accurate are either of these sites? I can’t say, and I’m not sure if anybody can. Both sites use real data from colleges to give you the best information they can, but factors will vary from year to year. Whatever the websites show, take it with a grain of sand. Just use them to get a more realistic idea of what to expect in the next month.

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