Every program, ranked by fit. Your numbers are placed against each program's admitted applicants, one metric at a time, and the programs are sorted by how close the fit is.

How a match is scored

Each of your metrics is compared against that program's accepted applicants at the 25th percentile, the median, and the 75th percentile, and scores points according to where it falls. Academics carry 75 percent of the total and experience hours carry the remaining 25 percent, so a strong GPA is not cancelled out by thin hours, and strong hours do not compensate for a GPA well below the band. Leave the hours blank, or enter hours no program has enough data to judge, and academics carry the whole score rather than the missing quarter counting against you.

The three tiers

Target

A weighted score of 70 percent or higher against that program's admitted applicants.

Reach

Between 40 and 70 percent.

Very Low Match

Below 40 percent.

What a tier is not

A tier describes how close your numbers are to the people a program admitted. It is not a probability of admission, and nothing here accounts for essays, interviews, or letters.

Where the data runs out

Thin data is handled by refusing to score on it, at three different points.

Fewer than five reports for one metric

That metric is dropped from the calculation, so a single reported GPA never becomes a program average. The percentage carries a note naming what was left out, as in calculated without MCAT.

Fewer than ten reports for the program

Nothing is scored at all. The program moves to an Insufficient Data group below the ranked results, where you can still open it, rather than being ranked on a handful of people.

No data for the test you took

The program is left out of the results entirely. It has nothing to compare your MCAT or GRE against, and a match built on the GPAs alone would read as more certain than it is.

Published shadowing minimums are a hard floor

A program that publishes a minimum shadowing requirement is checked against the hours you entered. Fall short and the match drops to 0 percent with a Below min shadowing tag, however strong the academics, because the requirement is the program's own and no GPA answers it. This only fires when you actually entered a shadowing number: leave the field empty and nothing is assumed about you.

What you enter

Cumulative GPA, science GPA, an MCAT or GRE score, and your shadowing, work, and volunteering hours. Inputs can be imported from a saved CRI result rather than retyped. Results can be sorted by match, program name, cGPA, or sGPA, filtered to one tier, and any of them saved to Saved Programs.