Would you pay for a tool that tells you what your chances are of getting accepted into college?

I specifically wouldn't, because where I live, it basically couldn't be easier to get accepted to college as a physics student. If you want to do it, you're in. However, a toll that tells you your chances of SURVIVING 1st year physics might actually be useful for some...

Maybe, but most likely not. I can understand the app judging you the quantitative data (GPA, SAT, etc.) I'm more curious to see however, how this app would factor in the qualitative factors (Essay, Leadership Positions, Awards). I don't believe it would be possible since there are so many different factors that admissions looks at. But you never know until you try :)

I don't believe I would pay for this because I couldn't rely on the accuracy.  Also, I could calculate my chances of getting into a college by using message boards and what the college board's website says.  I would then be able to factor in the variables that can't be measured so easily by numbers, giving myself a better look at my chance of getting into a college. If there was proof that the platform could tell me my chances, while including my extra curriculars as a variable then maybe I'd think about it. Also if they were to take into account my essay, I'm not sure I'd want to even give them my personal essay.

The thing is, college admissions is so weird (especially among top colleges) that I wouldn't trust any website that claims it can predict my chances. So basically, no.

If I knew it was accurate I'd look into it. The thing is it can be extremely difficult especially given the crapshoot that is elite college admissions, but if a site were somehow able to do it, it would definitely be useful data in the college application process. You'd also have to make the site in some way better than some of the free sites that are there already like http://Cappex.com.

I think its irresponsible to selling someone an exact % chance of getting into college when so much of that is subjective. That said, if you collated things like average SAT scores, class rank (preferably factoring size of graduating class as well), type of high school (private with lots of ivy connections, private, top suburban public schools, , etc.), URM or ORM status, + state/nationally recognized awards (anything from Intel to varsity football with varying degrees of fuzziness), citizenship, family income, geography, etc. you could get a pretty good idea of its the type of candidates that on average end up at a particular school. In order to not get sued you'd have to put up heavy disclaimers saying this is an estimate based on inferential stats and no way 100% predictive. One other freebie for you: In particular if you manage to get a critical mass of the overachievers to sign up for this, you can start building a database of stats for top college applicants. Once you get around 5000 or so valedvictorian-ish Juniors and Seniors to sign up you probably have something you could start selling to people to see where they comparatively rank. This is what websites like college confidential thrive on so to have a quantifiable  I think there's actually a company that does something similar right now for the east coast prep school. naviance or navistar or something like that. In these days environment of hyper competitive high schoolers and parents there's definitely a market, but you have to have a good product first before you can sell it. I'm willing to bet you can sell a full report for $50 once you have the database built. Heck if you have money and free time, start with just the average SAT scores for each school published on their annual reports and go out from there.

Your questions seems straightforward enough at first look, but take a look again is that answer is not really not so simple, i may or may not pay for such a app depending on the conditions that how accurate your app is, what is the response your app is getting, if it really does what is says people will get it surely. But on the other hand if the app is not so accurate then you might have a bad rating about your app, people will be commenting this app is just taking money out of our pocket, there might be chances even if your app gives right results but does not goes into the people who really need it will be biggest set-back So you need to market it well and know how you can reach to your target customer. Hopefully that solves your issue.

I'd pay if I heard from others that it was relatively accurate.