How to use the college cutoff gap comparator
Once you have collected reference figures for a dozen colleges, comparing each one against your own score by hand gets tedious. Enter your score, then list each college or program with the reference figure you are working from, and this page computes the gap for every entry, groups them into above, close and below bands, and sorts them from the largest positive gap down.
The gap is your score minus the reference figure, so a plus sign means you are higher. A gap of at least the close-call value you set is grouped as above, a smaller gap as close, and a gap of that size in the negative direction as below. When your score equals the figure exactly the gap reads 0 pts and the entry is grouped as close. Any consistent scale works, as long as your score and every figure use the same one.
One limit is worth stating plainly. A single score cannot decide whether an application will succeed, because outcomes turn on the applicant pool, the number of seats and how each college weights its own criteria that year. This page therefore makes no admission prediction and ships no built-in cutoff data. Only the figures you type in are used, and the output is the gap against those figures.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. No cutoff data is built in. Published figures differ between sources and change every year, so you enter the values from whichever source you are using.
No. It only means the gap against the figure you entered is large. Outcomes depend on the applicant pool, the number of seats and each college’s own weighting, so no admission chance is calculated.
The gap reads 0 pts, so the entry is grouped as close. You set the close-call width yourself, and a gap exactly equal to that width moves the entry into the above band.