Free Tools
Tools for university applicants
Free, with no sign-up, and plain about what they can and cannot tell you. None of them predicts admission, because nothing can.
Which one do I need?
For university applicants
UK, UCAS
Super-Curricular Strength Check
UCAS Question 3 asks what you have done to prepare outside of education. This scores how your answer would actually read, rewards depth over a long list, and tells you what to strengthen first.
IB Diploma
Extended Essay Planner
Most weak Extended Essays fail at the question, not the writing. Pick your subject and this returns the question shapes that work in it, plus the four bounds that stop a question sprawling.
US, Common App
College Application Profile Check
Selective US colleges favour applicants with one visible direction over broadly well-rounded ones. This scores how coherent your profile looks to an admissions reader, and penalises scattered activity rather than rewarding volume.
Also available
All students
Programme Finder
A short set of questions about readiness, interests, and timeline that points to the Aldevere programme most likely to fit. Indicative only; the recommendation is confirmed at the interview.
2 minutes Find my fitFrance, en français
Calculateur des spécialités du Bac
Quelles filières universitaires correspondent à vos spécialités du Bac, et quel accompagnement Aldevere convient à votre profil académique.
3 minutes Ouvrir le calculateurWhy we build these
Most of what students need in order to apply well is not secret, it is just badly organised and buried under marketing. These tools exist to give a straight answer to a specific question, in a few minutes, without requiring anyone to talk to us first.
They are also deliberately unflattering where the answers call for it. A tool that tells every student their profile is excellent is worthless to the student and worthless to us.
Frequently asked questions
Are these tools free?
Yes, all of them, with no sign-up required to see your result. Each tool offers an optional email capture afterwards if you want follow-up guidance, but you get the full result whether or not you use it.
Do these tools predict university admission?
No. None of them do, and you should be sceptical of any tool that claims to. Admissions decisions depend on grades, admissions tests, interviews, references, and the strength of the applicant pool in a given year. These tools assess the specific thing they describe assessing, and nothing beyond it.
Which tool should I use?
If you are applying through UCAS, start with the Super-Curricular Strength Check: Question 3 of the personal statement asks what else you have done to prepare outside of education and why those experiences are useful, and the check scores the preparation that answer draws on. If you are an IB student working on your Extended Essay, use the Extended Essay Planner. If you are trying to work out which Aldevere programme fits, use the Programme Finder.
After the tools
When a score is not enough
These tools are good at telling you what is thin and what is missing. They cannot tell you whether a particular research question is worth eight weeks of a student's time, or whether a profile that looks weak on paper is actually close to strong. That judgement takes a conversation about the student's actual work.
The interview is that conversation. It ends with the recommended programme, the plan and the fee in writing, so the family has something definite to decide on. There is no fee for the interview.