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My project is at 28:00 of the final project presentations. We won overall that year. I'm TF (teaching fellow) for the current course and Head TF for the advanced course (CS109b) in the Spring. AMA.

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For the lazy, it's chanceme.info, a data-driven college admission prediction project - that is really neat. Unfortunately, I'm getting a "Error: HTTP error 404." on the result.

Looks like an old DNS name expired. It has now been renewed.

Its really slick! I tried using it, but seem to be having the same issue :/

Bet a place like collegeconfidential.com would go bonkers over this tool :)

With only 13,000 training entries, I humbly think we built a better predictive model than anything else we could find. Certainly way better than Naviance. All the code and analysis is available on github if someone wants to make a business out of this.

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