Systems and methods for improving college and graduate admissions profile competitiveness

A method of improving an admission potential of a user, comprising:

• receiving an input regarding the user, wherein the input comprises information related to at least two criteria selected from the group consisting of an academic criteria, an experience criteria, and a customized criteria;
• calculating a value representative of each criteria and summing the values to a user score;
• receiving a user interest and identifying a potential institution based on the user interest;
• determining a delta between the user score and a threshold score of the institution;
• identifying a first subset of information from the at least two criteria the user can improve, wherein improving the first subset of information reduces the delta;
• and
• providing the first subset of information to the user with a suggested step to improve the first subset.

A method of improving a competitiveness of a user, comprising:

• receiving an input regarding the user, wherein the input comprises information related to at least two criteria selected from the group consisting of an academic criteria, an experience criteria, and a customized criteria;
• calculating a value representative of each criteria and summing the values to a user score;
• receiving a user interest and identifying at least one potential candidate in competition with the user related to the user interest;
• determining a delta between the user score and a score of the potential candidate;
• identifying a first subset of information from the at least two criteria the user can improve, wherein improving the first subset of information reduces the delta;
• and
• providing the first subset of information to the user with a recommended action to improve the first subset.