My Fit · optional

See where you're likely to belong.

Short assessments drawn from published research, about 45 minutes in all, taken whenever you like. They add a profile, College Ideas and Major Ideas, and a fuller fit summary for every college on your list. Exploring and saving colleges work without them.

Free while Lens is in its pilot.

How it works

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Take the assessments

Seven short assessments and a quick step for your GPA and test scores, about 45 minutes in all, in any order.

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See your profile

Lens writes your profile, College Ideas and Major Ideas: the kinds of colleges and fields where you're likely to thrive, and why.

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See how each college fits

Open any college for a short fit summary, ask for a longer Go deeper guide, and download everything as one report to share.

See it in action

What Lens gives back: five example students

These students are fictional. We wrote their assessment answers so you can see what Lens gives back. Everything shown for them is real Lens output, trimmed to fit this page: their profile, College Ideas and Major Ideas. Choose a student to compare.

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The 7 fit assessments

They cover personality, interests, values, psychological needs, confidence, risk tolerance and leadership style. Your profile needs all seven, plus a quick step to add your GPA and test scores. Take them in any order, whenever you like; everything else in Lens works without them. The research behind each one →

Goldberg (1992) · IPIP-50

Big Five Personality

Maps your core personality across five dimensions — Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness. The most replicated finding in personality psychology, validated across more than 50 countries.

~6 min 50 items Personality

Schwarzer & Jerusalem (1995) · GSE

General Self-Efficacy

Assesses belief in your ability to handle difficult situations and achieve goals through your own effort. Normative data from more than 19,000 participants across 25 countries. Based on Bandura's self-efficacy theory.

~3 min 10 items Confidence

Holland (1959) · O*NET · U.S. Dept. of Labor

Work Interest Profiler

Produces your RIASEC code — a 3-letter representation of your work interests across Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional dimensions. Widely used in career and academic advising worldwide.

~5 min 30 items Interests

Schwartz (2001) · PVQ-40

Personal Values Portrait

Maps your value priorities across 10 universal values on Schwartz's motivational circumplex. One of the most cross-culturally validated instruments in social psychology, with data from 82 countries and over 70,000 participants.

~7 min 40 items Values

Chen, Vansteenkiste et al. (2015) · BPNSFS

Psychological Needs Survey

Measures how well your three core psychological needs — Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness — are currently being met and frustrated. Based on Self-Determination Theory, the leading academic framework for human motivation.

~5 min 24 items Wellbeing

Zhang, Highhouse & Nye (2018) · GRiPS

Risk Propensity (GRiPS)

The General Risk Propensity Scale — a short, broad measure of your trait-level willingness to take risks across life domains, published in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making after testing across several validation samples.

~2 min 8 items Risk Tolerance

Adapted from Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman & Fetter (1990)

Leadership Styles Inventory

A first-person adaptation of the Transformational Leadership Inventory, covering six leadership behaviors — articulating a vision, leading by example, building team unity, high expectations, individualized support, and intellectual stimulation.

~7 min 24 items Leadership

Add Your Data

Required · Not an assessment

Your weighted GPA and SAT or ACT scores — self-reported, unverified. Standardized test scores are a well-established proxy for quantitative and verbal reasoning; GPA adds real-world context alongside the 7 assessments above.

~1 min · Add your data →