224 schools, from Ivy League to international research universities. Every entry says how solid its numbers actually are — nothing is dressed up to look more certain than it is.
| Rank ▾ | University | Acceptance | Intl. rate | Need-blind (intl.) | Avg. GPA (adm.) | Employed/grad 6mo | Avg. grant | Testing |
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Rank is this project's own database order (selectivity-weighted) — not US News or QS. GPA and employment-rate figures come from the project database and haven't been independently re-verified against each school's own reporting.
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Navigating the global landscape of higher education is one of the most complex challenges a high school student will face. PerfectApplicant is an independent research project built to make that process less about guesswork and more about actual data — testing requirements, real odds, and who actually funds international students, laid out plainly instead of scattered across twenty admissions-office tabs.
Developed by Batirbek Bisenbaev as an independent research project, starting from the same spreadsheets and open tabs any applicant accumulates while researching where to apply.
Two tiers, kept visibly separate by design rather than blended into one uniform-looking dataset: 26 schools researched individually against admissions offices, Common Data Sets, and current rankings, plus 53 schools total carrying a real numbered rank from US News, US News Liberal Arts Colleges, or QS World; the other 198 come from a working database built alongside this project, used as-is and re-labeled — not silently upgraded — wherever its numbers are estimates rather than official figures. Where something isn't public (most schools' international-specific acceptance rate, for instance), the site says so instead of filling the gap with a plausible-looking guess. Regional coverage is uneven too — the US is deep, Canada and the rest of the world are thinner — and that's shown honestly on the region cards rather than padded toward a round number. This split is the finished design, not a placeholder for "eventually verifying everything" — a resource this size is always going to have layered data depth; what matters is being honest about which layer you're looking at.
Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any university listed. Not professional admissions counseling. Figures shift every cycle — always confirm anything that matters for a real decision against the school's own site before acting on it.
With 224 schools and multiple data sources behind them, errors are close to guaranteed somewhere. Open any school's dossier and use "Flag it" at the bottom, or reach out directly — corrections make this more useful for the next student who looks a school up.
Three sources feed this site, kept visibly separate by design rather than blended into one uniform-looking dataset. 26 flagship schools were researched individually against admissions offices, Common Data Sets, US News 2026, and QS 2026 — and 53 schools in total (flagship plus a broader set) carry a real, sourced numeric rank from US News National Universities, US News Liberal Arts Colleges, or QS World 2026 (pulled from an official QS-distributed press release plus corroborated secondary sources). The other 171 come from a project database compiled outside this research — spanning the US, Canada, and beyond — used as-is for what it's good at, re-labeled where its methodology differs from "officially published." This is the finished shape of the project, not a waypoint toward verifying everything — that would take hundreds of hours no single-source list actually does at this depth.