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For Counselors: College Selectivity Levels & Student Match Levels overview

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College Selectivity filters and labels are seen throughout Scoir based on a college’s defined Selectivity Level. 

When you set a student's Match Level—either manually or using Intelligent Match, Scoir will automatically display the Acceptance Likelihood for those students and colleges. This customization is based on comparing the Student Match Level and College Selectivity Level.

Key terms

Acceptance Likelihood: A generalized value (i.e. Reach/Level/Likely) of acceptance chance assigned for each college relevant to the student profile. This value can be predicted by Intelligent Match or manually assigned by the counselor and/or student.

Student Match Level: A value assigned to a student based on their academic profile performance (i.e. Most Selective, Very Selective, etc), and helps determine their Acceptance Likelihood. It can be predicted by Intelligent Match or manually set by a counselor.

College Selectivity Level: A calculated value (i.e. Most Selective, Highly Selective, etc) using institutional characteristics reported to IPEDS, including admission rate, yield, and standardized test scores of admitted students.

Customizing College Selectivity Levels

If you know specific colleges that match differently to the Selectivity tags shown, you can customize the level. 

Note: Students cannot customize a college’s Selectivity Level. 

Go to Discover > Colleges, or search for specific colleges using the search bar.

Click Customize on the college card or on the College Details Page

Select a new level from the dropdown and Save. Anywhere the level is shown will be updated for the college after making this change.

Editing College Selectivity Labels

Change the label of the Selectivity Level by going to More > School Settings and scroll down to College Lists and Acceptance Data.

From there, use the label field to make edits and select the Save icon. 

Assigning Match Levels to Students

In Scoir, you can assign a Match Level to display a student’s Acceptance Likelihood for colleges. This can be done manually for each student or at scale using Intelligent Match.

Intelligent Match can predict a student’s match level by comparing the student’s profile to historical applicants with similar profiles and the selectivity of schools they were accepted to. While it calculates Match Levels, students will only see their Acceptance Likelihood.

Let's take a closer look at each option for assigning Match Levels.

Option 1: Auto-assign Match Levels using Intelligent Match

Save time by enabling Intelligent Match to automatically set Match Levels and Acceptance Likelihoods for all students in your roster. This feature is off by default but can be turned on anytime. You can still adjust predictions later.

To enable Intelligent Match:

  1. Go to More > School Settings
  2. In Account Settings, scroll to the College Lists & Admission Intelligence section
  3. Under Auto-assign Predicted Match Level, choose to use predicted Match Levels while keeping manually set values
  1. Decide when students and parents will see Acceptance Likelihoods (by month and class year)
  2. Click Apply Changes

Option 2: Set Match Levels manually

To set a Match Level for a specific student:

  1. Go to Students > Roster and click the student's name to go to their profile
  2. In the Academic Overview section, click the pencil icon next to Student Match Level
  1. Choose one of the following options:
  • Use Predicted Match Level: Automatically updates as the student's profile changes.
  • Manually Set Match Level: A fixed value that you set, which won’t change unless you update it.
  • Don’t Use Intelligent Match: Manually assign values without automatic predictions.
Students will only see their Acceptance Likelihood, not the Match Level itself.

Once a Match Level is set, Intelligent Match calculates the Acceptance Likelihood for each college, allowing students to filter by Selectivity and Acceptance Likelihood during their college search.

Manually set Acceptance Likelihoods will not be changed by Intelligent Match.

💡Find answers to your questions about Intelligent Match and other Scoir AI features in this FAQ.

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