Terms of Use
Version 1.3 · Last updated October 2026
1. What Raddym is
Raddym is an informational research tool. It compares the profile you enter against admissions, cost and program figures that universities publish, and produces a suggested list of schools to research further. It is a starting point for your own research, not a professional service.
2. Who can use Raddym
You must be at least 13 years old to use Raddym. If you are under 18, please review these terms with a parent or legal guardian. We ask for your month and year of birth so we can apply extra privacy protections to students under 18; see our Privacy Policy.
3. Recommendations are not predictions or guarantees
Nothing on Raddym is a guarantee, prediction, or promise of admission, of financial aid, or of any particular cost.
Labels such as “Safe”, “Target” and “Reach”, and any percentage shown, are estimates produced by a statistical model from published figures. They are not decisions, offers, or statements about your individual application.
Admission decisions are made solely by each university, using information Raddym does not have — essays, recommendations, interviews, portfolios, demonstrated interest, institutional priorities, and the strength of the applicant pool in a given year. Two applicants with identical grades and test scores routinely receive different decisions. You may be admitted to a school Raddym calls a Reach, and denied by one it calls a Safe.
4. Data may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong
Raddym relies on figures published by universities and by federal sources such as IPEDS and the Common Data Set. Those figures describe a past admissions cycle and can change without notice. Universities also change requirements, deadlines, tuition, aid policies and program offerings at their own discretion.
Universities do not all publish the same figures, and Raddym never invents one. What it does instead depends on what a school publishes:
- A figure the school publishes is used as published.
- Where a school publishes something related but not the figure itself, Raddym derives a comparable value from that school's own data — for example a grade bar worked out from the class-rank distribution it does publish, or a combined test range worked out from the section scores it does publish. A derived value is never presented as the school's own published number, and your match says what it was based on.
- Where a school publishes nothing relevant, or only a figure that cannot be compared with yours (for example a weighted grade average when you enter an unweighted GPA), the factor is either dropped from your score entirely, or compared against a bar drawn from schools of similar selectivity. The second route is most common for transfer applicants, because many schools publish no grade data at all about the transfer students they admit. Your match tells you which of the two happened, in plain words.
- Where a school publishes no costs by family income, Raddym may fall back to the average net price reported to the federal government by students in that income range. That is an observation about what past students actually paid, not a promise the school makes, and it is labeled that way.
This means some schools are assessed on less information than others, and figures shown for two schools may not be strictly comparable.
Always verify deadlines, costs, admission requirements and program availability on the university's own official website before you rely on them. Where Raddym and a university's official materials disagree, the university is correct.
5. Not professional advice
Raddym does not provide educational counseling, legal, immigration, tax or financial advice, and using it does not create an advisor–client relationship. Decisions about where to apply, how much to borrow, or how to finance an education are yours. For advice about your own circumstances, consult a qualified professional such as a school counselor or a licensed financial adviser.
6. No liability
Raddym is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of accuracy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Raddym and the people who operate it are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the service. This includes, without limitation, application fees spent on schools that did not admit you, missed deadlines, admission or scholarship decisions that did not go your way, costs that differed from what was shown, and any decision you made in reliance on the service.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability. Where that is the case, the limitations above apply only to the extent the law permits.
7. Your responsibilities
You agree to provide accurate information about yourself, to use Raddym for personal and non-commercial purposes, and not to attempt to disrupt or scrape the service. Inaccurate information produces inaccurate matches.
8. Not affiliated with any university
Raddym is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any university named on this site. University names, logos and photographs remain the property of their owners and are used for identification only. Photograph credits and licences are listed on the photo credits page.
9. Changes
These terms may change as Raddym develops. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms. The version and date at the top of this page tell you which version you are reading.
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