About AdmitCost
Radif Partners reads two kinds of documents for every university on this site: the federal College Scorecard file, which gives the price aided families actually paid in five income bands, and the university's own Common Data Set and cost of attendance page, which give the newest applicant and admit counts, the SAT and ACT middle 50 percent and the budget for the coming year. Each figure carries its cycle and its source, and the calculator places a student's score and family income against them without asking for an account or an e-mail address.
Why this site exists
Type a university name followed by "acceptance rate" and most of the first page belongs to admissions consultants. Their articles are often a cycle behind, round the rate to a single figure without saying which entering class it describes, and close with a button to book a consultation. The tools that do estimate chances usually want an account first. This site does better than the first Google result for those searches because each university page gives, without an account or an e-mail, the admit rate of the newest cycle the school itself published with its applicant and admit counts, the price families actually paid at each income level according to the federal College Scorecard, and a calculator that places your own score and income against those figures.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public data. It is not an admissions consultant, a test-prep company, a lender or a university, and it has no commercial link with any of them. Nothing you type is sent anywhere: there is no account, no form and no list of students to sell. There is no advertising on the site today.
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63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
contact@admitcost.com
What we read, and what we refuse
For every university we read the federal College Scorecard file of June 10, 2026 and the school's own documents: its Common Data Set, its admissions office pages and its cost of attendance page. Today 63 of the 110 universities show a cycle newer than the federal one, read in those documents; the others show the fall 2024 federal figure, labelled as such, until we have read a newer official document. Test score figures for the country come from the College Board's report on the class of 2026 and ACT's report on the class of 2025. We do not use rankings, consultant estimates, forum threads or "chances" generated by software we cannot inspect.
How the site is checked
The federal file is rebuilt by a script from the official download; each university file records the document, the page and the date it was read, and a file that fails its checks is not published. The calculators are tested on the official concordance table and on known cases before every release. The method page explains each figure and its limits, and the editorial policy explains corrections.
Contact
Corrections, a newer Common Data Set we missed, or a question about a figure: contact@admitcost.com, or the contact page. We cannot advise on an application or an aid appeal, but we read every message about a number.