Community Sharing: What You Give and What You Get

The Give-to-Get Model

AdmitBase's community features run on a simple principle: if you share your outcomes, you get to see everyone else's. If you do not share, you do not get access. There is no way to pay your way around this — it is the same for every subscription tier.

This is intentional. Community data is only useful if enough people contribute. The give-to-get model ensures that the pool stays large and current.

What Gets Shared

When you enable community sharing and update an application status to accepted, waitlisted, or rejected, the following data is anonymously added to the community pool:

• The school and application cycle
• Your outcome (accepted, waitlisted, or rejected)
• Your GPA and test score at the time of the report
• Your URM status and softs tier, if you have set them

What is NOT shared: Your name, email, personal statement, letters of recommendation, or any other identifying information. Reports are anonymous. There is no way for other users to trace a report back to you.

What You Get Access To

With community sharing enabled, you unlock:

• Community Hub — Two tabs: Waves (when schools are sending decisions, organized by date) and Results (aggregated outcomes by school, GPA range, and test score range).
• Comparison Tool — See how applicants with similar profiles fared at the schools you are considering. Filter by GPA range, test score range, URM status, and softs tier.

How Data Flows

The process is fully automatic. You do not need to fill out forms or submit reports manually:

1. You toggle community sharing on in your Profile settings.
2. You update an application status in the Application Tracker.
3. If the new status is accepted, waitlisted, or rejected, an anonymous outcome report is created automatically.
4. If you change the status back (e.g., undo a mistake) or delete the application, the report is removed.

The 30-Day Grace Period

If you turn off community sharing, your access to community features does not disappear immediately. You have a 30-day grace period during which your access remains active. After 30 days, community access is revoked and your existing reports are retained in the pool (they are anonymous and cannot be linked back to you).

This exists for two reasons: to prevent people from gaming the system (share briefly, download data, turn off), and to give you time to reconsider if you toggled it off accidentally.

Privacy

Your data is anonymized at the point of report creation. Even if you delete your account, the anonymous reports remain in the pool because they contain no personally identifiable information. We cannot reverse-engineer who submitted a specific report.

If you have concerns about privacy, the honest answer is: the only data other users see is a GPA, a test score, and an outcome at a specific school. That combination is shared by thousands of applicants every cycle. It is not identifiable.

Frequently Asked Questions

For more on how community sharing interacts with your subscription tier, visit the FAQ under "How the App Works."