Who's building MaCote, and why

Your official R-score isn't written down in full anywhere. Your cégep gives you the number once a session, in an internal portal, with little context around it. Everything else — the exact formula, what IDGZ and IFGZ mean, how to read a program's admission range — is scattered across cégep PDFs, in-class presentations, and word of mouth between students.

The calculators that already exist try to guess your R-score ahead of time, but they're approximating data they don't actually have. coter.online, one of the better-known ones, admits on its own site that IDGZ and IFGZ are "très difficile à obtenir" (very hard to obtain). MaCote doesn't claim to have solved that — the data stays out of reach for everyone outside the ministry. The goal is smaller: be honest about what's confirmed and what's estimated, instead of presenting an approximation as if it were a fact.

There's no team, no advisors, no investors behind MaCote. No partnership with a cégep or a university either — MaCote isn't an official tool, and it never presents itself as one.

The admission cutoffs and bursary amounts shown in the app come from public, cited sources. Nothing is invented or rounded to look more precise than the underlying data actually allows. When a number can't be confirmed, the app says so instead of guessing.