What you can do with Accepted as a student

Accepted follows an IB student from a first profile to a university place. Your dashboard names the phase you are in. You are in Discover until your IB profile has subjects, and in Research until you add your first application. Apply lasts until you have submitted an application, Plan until an offer arrives. After that, the card shrinks to one line that takes you to your offers, which sit under Post-offer in the sidebar.

Your profile and direction

Your IB profile is the record the rest of Accepted reads. It holds your subjects with their levels and predicted grades, your Extended Essay, Theory of Knowledge and CAS, the languages you speak, and the countries and fields you are interested in. You fill it in yourself and update it when your predictions change. Matching programmes to you won't run until the profile has at least one subject.

The Career Quiz is for when you don't know yet what to study. It asks about your interests, the subjects you enjoy, what you value and how you like to work, and an AI model writes a report that suggests study fields. From each field in the report you can open the catalogue, filtered to that field.

Accepted has no connection to the IB or to your school's records. The predicted grades it uses are the ones typed into your profile.

The signed-in pages that explain this part are Your first week on Accepted and Fill in your IB profile.

Finding programmes

The university catalogue (Universities) lists universities and their programmes, with what Accepted holds about each one: entry requirements, deadlines, fees and the platform you apply through. Anyone can browse it, with or without an account.

The Match for me tab of the catalogue needs an account, because it works from your IB profile. This matcher takes programmes from the catalogue, in the countries and fields set in the catalogue's filters, or from your profile when no filter is set. It gives each programme a match score and an admission likelihood. Programmes you already applied to, and the programmes of universities you saved as favourites, are always among the candidates it considers. For how both are formed, see What match score and admission likelihood mean.

The matcher only knows programmes in Accepted's catalogue. A likelihood is Accepted's reading of the requirements against your profile. It is not a university's decision.

The signed-in page for this part is Find programmes with the matcher.

Applying

When you add a programme to your applications, Accepted creates the tasks for it: the steps that programme and its application platform ask for. Every application has a tracker with its tasks, deadline and status. My Tasks gathers the tasks of all your applications in one list. If you have a counsellor in Accepted, they can add tasks for you too.

For letters and statements, each application has a documents page. There an AI model works from your IB profile and the programme: for a motivation letter it writes a guide and reviews your own draft, and for a UCAS personal statement it writes a first draft. You edit the text, and you can send it to your counsellor for review.

The calendar shows your application deadlines next to your task dates. You can subscribe to it from a calendar app. Some dates carry a note, such as projected or not yet published. For what those notes mean, see Why some dates say "projected".

Accepted never submits an application. You submit it on the university's site or the application platform, then mark it as submitted in Accepted.

The signed-in pages for this part are Add an application and follow it, What each application status means, Work through your tasks, Add your deadlines to your calendar and Write and improve your documents.

Offers

When a university decides, you record the decision on the application: an offer, a conditional offer, a place on the waiting list or a rejection. You then record your reply, and the replies you can give depend on the platform you applied through. My Offers shows your offers together. Your counsellor can mark an offer as verified once they have seen the offer letter.

Accepted has no connection to your UCAS or Parcoursup account. It never replies to an offer for you, and an offer reaches Accepted only when you or your counsellor enter it.

The signed-in pages for this part are Record an offer and reply to it and Offer replies by platform.

Your family

You can invite a parent from your account page. A parent sees your applications, your IB profile, your documents and the costs, and changes none of them. The one thing a parent edits is the family preferences: a yearly budget, countries they prefer or rule out, and a note. You send the invitation, and you can end the access at any time.

Accepted doesn't email a parent about each change you make. By default a parent gets one summary email a week, listing your tasks due soon, the tasks you completed and the offers you received, and none in a week with nothing to list.

The signed-in page for this part is Invite a parent, and end their access.