Predicting admissions online.Can admission to top colleges be boiled boiled adj. Slang Intoxicated; drunk. Adj. 1. boiled - cooked in hot water poached, stewed cooked - having been prepared for eating by the application of heat down to a formula? Some online companies say yes. The founders of ThickEnvelope.com say that for a $79.95 fee they will assign applicants a probability probability, in mathematics, assignment of a number as a measure of the "chance" that a given event will occur. There are certain important restrictions on such a probability measure. , from 5 percent to 90 percent, of being accepted into 80 different colleges. Applicants enter SAT scores, class rank, grade-point average, and details of extra-curriculars. Other sites, both free and fee based, offer similar services, including fastweb.com, go4college.com, collegedata.com, and collegeconfidential.com. Some critics say the sites aren't aren't Contraction of are not. See Usage Note at ain't. aren't are not aren't be worth much. "I have very little faith in secret formulas," says David M. Borus, the admissions dean at Vassar College Vassar College (văs`ər), at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered 1861 by Matthew Vassar, opened 1865 as Vassar Female College, renamed 1867. . |
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