Which colleges can you get into and actually afford?
Other tools only calculate “will I get in?” Powered by DecisionTier's proprietary dual-axis scoring engine, we evaluate both admissions odds and true net cost to eliminate the \$40,000 April shock.
Live Institutional Feasibility Engine
Built on Public Records, Not Surveys
Commercial college guides rely on marketing claims. DecisionTier runs strictly against federal and statutory regulatory archives.
Undergraduate Programs
Ingested from U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard with strict cell sentinel parsing.
Accredited Law Schools
Official ABA Standard 509 disclosures with 75th/50th/25th percentile LSAT/GPA bands.
Coerced Zeros
PrivacySuppressed and NULL values are never coerced to $0, eliminating false affordability.
Deterministic Aid Verification
Title IV FAFSA Student Aid Index (SAI) coupled with institutional 100% need-met grants.
Why Standard Search Fails
Conventional search portals optimize for referral clicks. Powered by DecisionTier's proprietary dual-axis scoring engine, we enforce strict actuarial principles designed to protect your family from financial catastrophe.
Surfaces "The Trap" Early
Every year, students celebrate admissions to selective universities in December, only to discover in April that the real net price requires $40,000+ in annual loans their family cannot cosign.
≥2 Affordable Safeties
A list is mathematically invalid unless at least two safeties are comfortably affordable for your specific household income band. We refuse to return a false sense of security.
Selectivity Damping
As a university becomes hyper-selective, perfect test scores stop guaranteeing admission. Under 15% admit rate? No student is ever tiered better than a reach, regardless of a 1600 SAT.
Calculate Your Realistic List
Powered by DecisionTier's proprietary dual-axis scoring engine. Adjust your academic stats and budget to compute your live 2×2 decision matrix and balanced 12-college portfolio.
Student Profile & Budget Controls
Configure your academic and financial criteria to score college admissions odds and federal net cost.
The Decision Matrix (2×2)
Mapping colleges simultaneously by admission probability and family affordability.
TRUE SAFETY
High PriorityLikely Admit + Affordable
THE TRAP ⚠
Danger ZoneLikely Admit + Unaffordable
No Unaffordable Traps
All universities where admission is likely fit within your $20,000 family budget!
WORTH THE SHOT
Great ValueReach + Affordable
LONG SHOT
High RiskReach + Unaffordable
Synchronized Public Intelligence
DecisionTier connects directly to federal registers, institutional common data sets, and statutory disclosures.
U.S. Dept. of Education Scorecard
Federal Net Price1,944 4-year institutions with income-banded net costs
ABA Section of Legal Education
Standard 509195 accredited law schools with LSAT/GPA quartiles
NCES IPEDS Census
Higher Ed SurveyOfficial cohort graduation, retention & endowment data
Title IV FAFSA Student Aid Index
Financial NeedPell eligibility and 100% need-met institutional endowment schedules
Brier Reliability Loop
CalibrationAnnual empirical validation against real admission cycles
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Career ROIPost-graduate earnings trajectory by degree credential
Honest Admissions & Pricing Mechanics
Everything you need to know about our data sources, selectivity damping, and dual-axis guarantee.
Build a college list that survives financial reality.
Never get into 4 universities and realize in April you cannot attend any of them. Test your profile against our dual-axis engine right now.