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CollegeCalcAI MCP Server

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CollegeCalcAI is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Admission chances at 1,100+ U.S. colleges, college list scoring, and federal admissions data.

Uptime history 36 days of history · worst day 0%
36 days agonow
5.5%
Uptime 24h
5 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
356 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

CollegeCalcAI does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 7.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add admissions --transport http https://collegecalcai.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://collegecalcai.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.admissions]
url = "https://collegecalcai.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "admissions": {
      "url": "https://collegecalcai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "admissions": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://collegecalcai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

colleges
find_colleges_for_score
Answer "what colleges can I get into with a ___": buckets every covered U.S. college into safety, target, reach and high reach for one SAT, ACT or unweighted GPA, using each college's real admitted-score data. Optional state filter. Returns counts and example colleges per tier.
search_colleges
Find U.S. colleges by name, state, public/private, and acceptance-rate range. Give a SAT score to rank schools by how close the student sits to each school's 75th percentile. Returns names to pass to the estimate tools.
estimate
estimate_admission_chances
Estimate a student's chance of admission at one U.S. college from their GPA, test scores and context. Returns the percentage, a Reach/Target/Likely/Safety verdict, what would move the number, the school's federal admissions data, and a link to the full calculator.
estimate_college_list
Score one student profile against up to 15 colleges at once. Returns every school sorted by chance with its verdict, the Reach/Target/Likely balance, the chance of at least one acceptance, and concrete advice to balance the list.
school
get_school_admissions_data
Federal admissions and outcome data for one U.S. college: applicants, admits, yield, SAT/ACT middle 50%, test policy, cost, net price after aid, graduation rate and earnings, plus the estimated chance for typical GPA and SAT combinations at that school. No student profile needed.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://collegecalcai.com/mcp streamable-http answering 58 ms 14 min ago

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CollegeCalcAI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CollegeCalcAI do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: estimate_admission_chances, estimate_college_list, find_colleges_for_score, get_school_admissions_data, search_colleges. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is CollegeCalcAI mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around estimate and colleges. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is CollegeCalcAI working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 5 of 91 checks got a reply (5.5%), average response time 356 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists CollegeCalcAI as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect CollegeCalcAI?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does CollegeCalcAI need an API key?
No. CollegeCalcAI completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is CollegeCalcAI?
It answers our handshake in 356 ms on average, which is faster than 37% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.