Counselor Demonstration: In this video, Counselor demonstrates the student experience by explaining how students access Fit Report (Evaluate Fit) from their Student List, review their current evaluation, and identify additional information they can complete to improve their Evaluate Fit.
Evaluate Fit helps you gauge a student's chances of admission at a specific college. It compares the student's profile with what the school says it values in its holistic review (from its Common Data Set). It also compares the student with the school's most recently admitted class and with outcomes from students in CounselMore. The report shows where the student is strong and where their application may need work.
Step 1: Complete the student profile
1. The student profile banners will appear when you click the pencil icon to the left of the student's name.
2. The questions under these banners must be answered.
The self-assessment questions in the first survey must all be answered.
- These parts can be completed by the student upon entering their student portal.
- Or they can be completed by the student later, after initiating their portal.
- The student will find these in their Student profile.
- Without the required data, 'Evaluate Fit' will not yield any results.
Step 2: Turn on the Evaluate Fit column
1. Click on Service Account in the top right corner to access the pop-up Settings menu.
2. Click on the Undergraduate Data Manager.
3. Search/look for the Evaluate Fit column. Turn the icons green.
Additionally, you may access the College Data Menu from any student record.
How: From the Counselor or Student list, pick College Data Menu by clicking the Menu button.
4. Return to the list you selected for the data to be displayed. Once the data column has been enabled. There will now be a column called Reports.
Click the Fit Report link in any cell in that column, new window opens showing the student's evaluate fit.
ADMISSIONS PROFILE REVIEW
What do these weightages mean? The school reported on Common Data Set how each quality is weighted in the holistic review of the candidate’s application.
These charts show how students with different GPAs and test scores have fared in the admissions process, based on admissions outcome data collected in CounselMore. Read more here
Side-by-side comparison of the student’s profile against the school’s most recently admitted class data
Test Results - Visualizations such as SAT and ACT scatterplots to contextualize student scores
School Profile - Overview of institutional details and admissions characteristics
Application Guidelines - Key requirements such as essays, deadlines, and submission criteria
Using the above as an example, the counselor now has guidance to instruct the student of potential candidacy deficits. The above student might receive the following bulleted suggestions:
- The school you are interested in is interested in your knowing if you enjoy academics AND activities. Let's find ways to express your interests by getting involved in an activity. Or if you already have after school responsibilities that require time commitment, please advise your counselor of these. If they include caring for a family-elder or a younger-sibling, these demonstrate more than your interests.
- Let's discuss your recommendations and why you feel you may not be able to retrieve positive letters of recommendations. There are ways to enhance those relationships and we can discuss these strategies.
Student Portal: Evaluate Fit (Fit Report)
Students can also view their Fit Report (Evaluate Fit) results from the Student Portal through the Reports column on their Student or App Tracker List.
Before students can access this feature, it must be enabled by a counselor.
How Students Use Fit Report
Students can click Fit Report next to any college to:
- View their current Evaluate Fit results.
- Review which profile information is still missing.
- Complete additional information to receive a more comprehensive Evaluate Fit assessment.
As students add more information to their profile, their Evaluate Fit results become more complete and provide additional insight into how they compare with a college's application priorities.