College Sim — Research Library

Agent-based college admissions simulation research: algorithms, data, behavioral models, and Kaggle dataset analyses.

232 documents

10 sections

Last built: 2026-03-07

Jump to: 📋 Research Overview · ⚙️ Simulation Architecture · 🏛️ Demand Side — Colleges & Admissions · 🎓 Supply Side — Students & High Schools · 🧠 Student Decision Behavior · 🔗 Matching Theory · 🏢 College Consulting Industry · 🎓 College Profiles — All 90 Colleges · 📝 ABM Research Notes · 📊 Kaggle Dataset Surveys

307 High School Overview

Ratings, SAT ranges, GPA, enrollment, Ivy+ placement rates, and common hooks for 307 high schools — elite boarding, private day, public magnets, and international schools. Ranked by selectivity and college placement.

300 College Overview

Selectivity ratings, admit rates, SAT/GPA, yield, and testing policy for all 300 colleges in the research dataset — elite privates through regional publics, HBCUs, military academies, and art schools. Sorted by rating within each of 14 sections.

📋

Research Overview

High-level syntheses and key findings across all research.

Research Master Summary

RESEARCH_SUMMARY.md

US College Admissions: A Decade-by-Decade History

admissions_history.md

Kaggle Dataset Research Summary

kaggle_research_summary.md

Hidden Rules of Elite Admissions

hidden-rules.md

Competitive Landscape: Admissions Tools & Simulators

competitive_landscape.md

ABM Literature Analysis: Reardon 2016, Assayed 2023–2025 & Context

abm_literature_analysis.md

⚙️

Simulation Architecture

Agent rules, scoring algorithms, and technical implementation of the ABM.

Agent Rules Reference (Student & University)

Technical Implementation Guide

technical-implementation.md

Matching Mechanics & Simulation Timeline

matching-mechanics.md

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Demand Side — Colleges & Admissions

College admissions data, academic index formulas, yield management, and institutional statistics.

Demand-Side Agent Logic (AI & Yield)

HYPSM Common Data Set Stats

data_hypsm_cds.md

CommonApp & NACAC Admissions Data

data_commonapp_nacac.md

Top 20–50 College CDS Data

data_top20_50_cds.md

College Statistics Reference

college-stats.md

Enrollment Management: How Colleges Hit Yield Targets

college_enrollment_management.md

College Admissions Decision-Making Model

college_decision_model.md

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Supply Side — Students & High Schools

Student archetypes, feeder school effects, extracurriculars, and high school distributions.

Supply-Side Agent Modeling

Feeder School Data

data_feeder_schools.md

Exeter→MIT Pipeline Analysis

exeter_mit_pipeline.md

MIT Extracurricular Profiles

mit_extracurriculars.md

MIT Race & Gender Admissions Data

mit_race_gender.md

MIT Athletic Hook Analysis

mit_athletic_hooks.md

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Student Decision Behavior

How students choose colleges, build lists, and respond to financial aid.

Student Yield & Enrollment Decisions

student_yield_behavior.md

Application Portfolio Behavior

student_portfolio_behavior.md

Student Welfare in Matching Markets

student_welfare_matching.md

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Matching Theory

Gale-Shapley algorithm, stable matching theory, and parallels to school choice.

Gale-Shapley 1962 — Original Paper

gale_shapley_1962.md

Gale-Shapley Algorithm: Theory & Variants

gale_shapley_algorithm.md

College Admissions as a Matching Market

college_matching_market.md

K-12 School Choice Mechanisms

k12_school_choice.md

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College Consulting Industry

College consulting firms, their business models, school targeting lists, and market dynamics.

College Consulting Industry Overview

college_consulting_industry.md

Crimson Education: Company Research

crimson_education.md

IvyWise: Company Research

Collegewise: Company Research

College Essay Guys: Company Research

college_essay_guys.md

InGenius Prep & Adjacent Players

ingenius_prep.md

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College Profiles — All 90 Colleges

Research profiles for all 90 colleges: 30 simulation core (HYPSM through Top LACs) plus 60 extended universe — elite privates, UC/state flagships, and liberal arts colleges.

1. Harvard University

colleges/harvard.md

2. Yale University

colleges/yale.md

3. Princeton University

colleges/princeton.md

colleges/mit.md

5. Stanford University

colleges/stanford.md

6. Columbia University

colleges/columbia.md

7. University of Pennsylvania

colleges/upenn.md

8. Brown University

colleges/brown.md

9. Dartmouth College

colleges/dartmouth.md

10. Cornell University

colleges/cornell.md

11. Duke University

colleges/duke.md

12. Johns Hopkins University

colleges/johns_hopkins.md

13. Northwestern University

colleges/northwestern.md

14. University of Chicago

colleges/uchicago.md

colleges/caltech.md

16. Vanderbilt University

colleges/vanderbilt.md

17. Rice University

colleges/rice.md

18. University of Notre Dame

colleges/notre_dame.md

19. Georgetown University

colleges/georgetown.md

20. Emory University

colleges/emory.md

21. University of Virginia

colleges/uva.md

colleges/ucla.md

23. University of Michigan

colleges/michigan.md

24. Carnegie Mellon University

colleges/carnegie_mellon.md

25. Tufts University

colleges/tufts.md

26. Boston College

colleges/boston_college.md

27. WashU St. Louis

colleges/washu.md

28. Williams College

colleges/williams.md

29. Amherst College

colleges/amherst.md

30. Middlebury College

colleges/middlebury.md

colleges/usc.md

colleges/smu.md

33. Wake Forest University

colleges/wake_forest.md

34. Tulane University

colleges/tulane.md

colleges/nyu.md

36. Fordham University

colleges/fordham.md

37. Northeastern University

colleges/northeastern.md

38. Boston University

39. Georgia Tech

colleges/georgia_tech.md

colleges/rpi.md

41. Case Western Reserve

colleges/case_western.md

42. University of Rochester

colleges/rochester.md

43. Brandeis University

colleges/brandeis.md

44. Lehigh University

colleges/lehigh.md

45. UNC Chapel Hill

colleges/unc.md

46. William & Mary

colleges/william_mary.md

47. UC Berkeley

colleges/uc_berkeley.md

48. UC San Diego

colleges/ucsd.md

49. UC Santa Barbara

colleges/ucsb.md

colleges/uc_davis.md

colleges/uc_irvine.md

colleges/ut_austin.md

colleges/texas_am.md

colleges/uw_madison.md

55. University of Washington

56. Ohio State University

colleges/ohio_state.md

colleges/penn_state.md

colleges/uiuc.md

59. Purdue University

colleges/purdue.md

60. University of Florida

colleges/u_florida.md

61. University of Georgia

colleges/u_georgia.md

62. Virginia Tech

colleges/virginia_tech.md

colleges/nc_state.md

64. Swarthmore College

colleges/swarthmore.md

65. Harvey Mudd College

colleges/harvey_mudd.md

66. Pomona College

colleges/pomona.md

67. Claremont McKenna College

colleges/claremont_mckenna.md

68. Wellesley College

colleges/wellesley.md

69. Smith College

colleges/smith.md

70. Bowdoin College

colleges/bowdoin.md

71. Colby College

colleges/colby.md

72. Bates College

colleges/bates.md

73. Carleton College

colleges/carleton.md

74. Grinnell College

colleges/grinnell.md

75. Davidson College

colleges/davidson.md

76. Washington & Lee University

colleges/washington_lee.md

77. Vassar College

colleges/vassar.md

78. Haverford College

colleges/haverford.md

79. Colgate University

colleges/colgate.md

80. Hamilton College

colleges/hamilton.md

81. Macalester College

colleges/macalester.md

82. Oberlin College

colleges/oberlin.md

83. Reed College

colleges/reed.md

84. Kenyon College

colleges/kenyon.md

85. Scripps College

colleges/scripps.md

86. Pitzer College

colleges/pitzer.md

87. Bryn Mawr College

colleges/bryn_mawr.md

88. Mount Holyoke College

colleges/mount_holyoke.md

89. George Washington University

colleges/gwu.md

90. American University

colleges/american_u.md

colleges/arizona_state.md

Bowdoin Colby Bates

colleges/bowdoin_colby_bates.md

Brandeis Lehigh

colleges/brandeis_lehigh.md

Brown Dartmouth

colleges/brown_dartmouth.md

Brynmawr Mtholyoke

colleges/brynmawr_mtholyoke.md

colleges/bucknell.md

Caltech Johns Hopkins

colleges/caltech_johns_hopkins.md

Carleton Grinnell

colleges/carleton_grinnell.md

Carnegie Mellon Washu

colleges/carnegie_mellon_washu.md

colleges/clemson.md

Colgate Hamilton

colleges/colgate_hamilton.md

colleges/columbia_upenn.md

Connecticut College

colleges/connecticut_college.md

colleges/cooper_union.md

colleges/cornell_duke.md

colleges/cu_boulder.md

colleges/cwru_rochester.md

colleges/davidson_wl.md

colleges/dickinson.md

colleges/drexel.md

colleges/elon.md

colleges/famu.md

colleges/gatech_rpi.md

colleges/george_mason.md

colleges/gwu_american.md

colleges/hampton.md

colleges/harvard_yale.md

colleges/hofstra.md

colleges/howard.md

colleges/indiana.md

colleges/loyola_chicago.md

Loyola Marymount

colleges/loyola_marymount.md

Macalester Oberlin

colleges/macalester_oberlin.md

colleges/mcgill.md

colleges/michigan_emory.md

colleges/michigan_state.md

colleges/morehouse.md

colleges/naval_academy.md

colleges/nc_at.md

colleges/neu_bu.md

Northwestern Uchicago

colleges/northwestern_uchicago.md

Notre Dame Georgetown

colleges/notre_dame_georgetown.md

colleges/nyu_fordham.md

colleges/olin.md

colleges/osu_psu.md

colleges/pepperdine.md

colleges/pomona_cmc.md

colleges/princeton_mit.md

colleges/reed_kenyon.md

colleges/risd.md

colleges/rutgers.md

colleges/santa_clara.md

colleges/scripps_pitzer.md

colleges/spelman.md

colleges/stevens.md

Swarthmore Harveymudd

colleges/swarthmore_harveymudd.md

colleges/syracuse.md

colleges/tcu.md

colleges/temple.md

Tufts Boston College

colleges/tufts_boston_college.md

colleges/tuskegee.md

colleges/u_alabama.md

colleges/u_arizona.md

colleges/u_denver.md

colleges/u_iowa.md

colleges/u_maryland.md

colleges/u_miami.md

colleges/u_minnesota.md

colleges/u_oregon.md

colleges/u_pittsburgh.md

colleges/u_richmond.md

U South Carolina

colleges/u_south_carolina.md

colleges/u_toronto.md

colleges/ubc.md

colleges/ucdavis_uci.md

colleges/uconn.md

colleges/ucsd_ucsb.md

colleges/uf_uga.md

colleges/uiuc_purdue.md

colleges/umass_amherst.md

colleges/unc_wm.md

colleges/usc_smu.md

colleges/utaustin_tamu.md

colleges/uva_ucla.md

Uwmadison Uwseattle

colleges/uwmadison_uwseattle.md

Vanderbilt Rice

colleges/vanderbilt_rice.md

Vassar Haverford

colleges/vassar_haverford.md

colleges/villanova.md

colleges/vt_ncstate.md

Wellesley Smith

colleges/wellesley_smith.md

colleges/west_point.md

colleges/wfu_tulane.md

Williams Amherst Middlebury

colleges/williams_amherst_middlebury.md

colleges/wpi.md

Xavier Louisiana

colleges/xavier_louisiana.md

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ABM Research Notes

Detailed notes on agent-based modeling papers and matching market mechanics.

Assayed 2023–2025 ABM Notes

abm_assayed_2024_notes.md

ABM Literature Context

abm_literature_context.md

Reardon 2016 ABM Notes

abm_reardon_2016_notes.md

Matching Market Mechanics

matching_market_mechanics.md

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Kaggle Dataset Surveys

Survey results and key findings from 14 Kaggle datasets on college admissions.

Admissions Datasets Survey

kaggle_survey_admissions.md

Applications & ED Multipliers Survey

kaggle_survey_applications.md

College Statistics Datasets Survey

kaggle_survey_college_stats.md

Demographics & Post-SFFA Survey

kaggle_survey_demographics.md

Financial Aid Datasets Survey

kaggle_survey_financial_aid.md

High School Datasets Survey

kaggle_survey_high_schools.md

Test Score Datasets Survey

kaggle_survey_test_scores.md

College Scorecard Deep-Dive

kaggle_scorecard_deepdive.md