Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for providing advanced analytics and predictive modeling that enables strategic decision making related to academic admissions, for providing strategic enrollment management and strategic retention management for colleges and universities, for providing a net price calculator, student inquiry assessment, admission recommender, scholarship estimator, grant optimization, deposit predictor, tuition discounting optimizer, on-time graduation recommender, student lifetime value estimator and retention multiplier, for providing a platform for improved enrollment yield and improved graduation rates, and for helping colleges and universities enroll, award and retain students who are most likely to succeed