How the college predictor works
ACPC publishes two cutoff tables every year – one for each admission round – that show, for every branch and college, the rank of the first and last student admitted. We loaded the 2024 and 2025 versions.
For each branch + college combination, we look at the closing rank in both years and use the worse one (the more permissive one) as the benchmark. Then we compare your rank to that benchmark:
- Safe – your rank is ≤ 80 % of the cutoff. Comfortably below the historical close.
- Target – your rank is between 80 % and 100 % of the cutoff. You’d just barely make it.
- Reach – your rank is up to 50 % beyond the cutoff. A stretch, but worth listing.
Anything past Reach gets dropped. So if a college’s last admitted rank was around #1,000, you won’t see it once your rank goes past #1,500 – too far to be worth listing.
Why category matters
ACPC runs reservation-based counselling, so the same rank gets very different colleges across categories. An Open rank of 2,000 might be Target for top government colleges, but the same rank could be Safe in SEBC for the same colleges. Always pick your actual category – defaults won’t serve you well here.
How to use this
- Treat Safe as your floor. If your preference list ends with only Reach options, you might end up without a seat.
- Order by what you actually want. A Safe at a less-preferred college still beats no admission. But put your dream branch + college first – you only get allotted as far down the list as your rank lets you.
- Don’t skip aided / self-financed. If you can afford the fees, GIA and SFI institutes have softer cutoffs and decent placements at the top names.
- Watch the 2024 vs 2025 column. If the two years disagree wildly, the cutoff is volatile. Don’t bet your whole list on a low number from just one of them.
Caveats
- This is not the official ACPC seat allotment. That comes out of their counselling round with the official seat matrix and your preference list.
- 2026 cutoffs may shift – especially if seat-matrix changes or new institutes affect the mix.
- We currently don’t filter by city / district. If you need a specific location, scan the institute names manually.
Common questions
What’s Safe vs Target vs Reach?
Safe = your rank is ≤ 80 % of the historical closing rank. Target = right around it (80–100 %). Reach = up to 50 % beyond. Anything further is dropped.
Why does it show 2024 and 2025 separately?
So you can see how stable the cutoff is. If a college closed at #1200 in 2024 and #2400 in 2025, that’s very different from one that closed at #1200 both years. We bucket using the more permissive number so we don’t accidentally call something Reach that was actually within range one of those years.
Is this the official seat allotment?
No. The official allotment happens during ACPC counselling based on your preference list and the live seat matrix. This predictor only tells you what was historically achievable.
Do you have older years?
Right now just 2024 and 2025. We blend them and pick the permissive cutoff. We’ll add more years as ACPC publishes.
Can I filter by city or district?
Not yet. For v1 you have to scan the institute names (they include the city). We’ll add district filtering in a future update.
Don’t know your rank yet?
Use the rank predictor to estimate your ACPC rank from your marks, then come back here to find colleges.
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