Scoir

This app seems good in theory, but it does not provide nearly enough information about each school. Besides giving you an idea of some schools that meet your very basic criteria, it’s not very helpful. It tells you virtually nothing about student life, which is one of the main things prospective students should be looking for. Maybe if it included any information about dorm quality, sports life, the campus climate/landscape, food, words from actual students there, or even more than just an image or two from the entire university it would be useful. But it doesn’t, so the user sees pretty much nothing to set one school apart from another besides the most basic things like location, price, and acceptance rate. To make matters worse, the acceptance intelligence feature is also pretty impractical. When students should begin creating an idea of colleges they want to apply to, chances are they do not have their final SAT score and GPA yet, and because this information is not able to be altered by a student, and it doesn’t have a feature where you can enter your expected statistics, the prediction is not very accurate. Also, it requires your guidance counselor to edit it, which seems unnecessary, and provides an entire other problem if your guidance counselor takes awhile to update your stats. So, not only is it very disheartening to see your year old stats projected in a “predictive chance” that is probably pretty inaccurate, but it may drive away students that might be interested in a college that they could actually get into from applying. I think it’s also worth mentioning that the search feature is very persnickety, and it is difficult to search for a college without it saying “no matches found”. Overall, I am not very fond of this app, and in 2025, looking for colleges should not be this difficult. However, there aren’t any other platforms that I have found that are any better, and the scatterplot feature is actually very helpful to look at. With some additions and changes, this could be a huge help, unfortunately I don’t believe that it’s there yet.

This app is easy to navigate and allows me to look up quick stats here and there! I use it multiple times throughout the day. It has proved very handy during the college admissions process.

I actually really like this app for researching colleges. It states lots of important information about the colleges and says about transportation, application fees and many more.