A Few Naviance Histogram Questions

College Search & Selection
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<p>Anyone know the answers to the following?:</p>

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<li><p>Some colleges do not display the scattergram and a message appears that says it is to “protect student privacy.” I can understand that if there are only one, two or three applications from my D's high school. But several have a dozen or more apps and still won’t display. And yet there are a few school that have less than a dozen and do display the graph. Any rhyme or reason one is aware of?</p></li>
<li><p>The graph shows a lot fewer “dots” than the number of applications listed. By about half it appears. What am I missing?</p></li>
<li><p>I’ll assume the GPA listed is weighted, since some schools average is (way) above 4.0. Correct?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks.</p>

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<li><p>No idea</p></li>
<li><p>Go into the stats profiles to check on the discrepency; could just be a glitch or see #1 (some people may have opted out due to privacy)</p></li>
<li><p>Every high school reports Naviance GPA in their own way; if you have a junior student, you might have a meeting coming up in your school to explain the nuances of your own school’s Naviance program (for example, many schools do not have scattergrams that reflect ED/EA acceptances)</p></li>
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3

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<li><p>I think this is set by the high school. At my D’s school, every college is displayed, even those with only 1 or 2 apps. It may also be the same reason as in my answer to (2).</p></li>
<li><p>Two dots can overlap. Also, some students only take the ACT (and their results won’t appear on the SAT grid) and some only take the SAT (ditto).</p></li>
<li><p>What Bogney said.</p></li>
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4

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<li>It probably means only one or two were admitted or one or two were rejected. If only one grad from recent classes is attending that college it would be easy to identify them as the student with the matching stats.</li>
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5

<p>This is guess from my kids school. First, some explicitly said there were too few data points to show a scattergram. Some others with lots of applicants have a more ambiguous statement about protecting student privacy … my guess, and it is totally a guess, is there is an outlier result that would easily identify a student and the school is blocking visibility to protect that student’s identity … examples might be a URM or athlete who was accepted with much lower stats or a student rejected with very high stats but some other disqualifying element to their application.</p>