Hi,
Does anyone know whether a school counselor has access to the common apps, naviance, ACT account?
I think they have access to the naviance account, but what about common apps, and ACT? Is there anyway to prevent them to have access?
thanks
@annamom I’m pretty sure they can’t see your common app.
They absolutely have access to Naviance. I don’t know whether or not they can edit anything, but they certainly can view it.
School counselors do not have access to the Common Application or ACT accounts of students. Unless a student gives their counselor the student’s username/password. That, of course, raises a bunch of other issues.
Thank you. Does it mean that they don’t know which school a student apply to ? In addition, isn’t it true that ACT will send the result to the student’s high school?
Counselors would know which schools where they sent letters of recommendation. But if you’re asking if the counselor can see which schools the child pushed “submit” on the CA, no.
My child asked for transcripts and the LOR sent to a couple of schools where she ended not applying. I think she had to delete them from Naviance. She also had to enter application results herself.
The counselor can’t see your Common App.
If the college requires a transcript and/or School Report, then depending on your school’s procedures, your counselor probably can see which schools are on that list. Most of the time the counselor is the one who completes the School Report.
If you apply to the University of California, you enter in all the information off your informal transcript personally, and there is no letter of recommendation or school report. In that case, if admitted, you wouldn’t actually send the University of California a transcript from your high school until after graduation. In that case, I guess that the high school wouldn’t have any way of knowing that you’d applied. I do not know if there are other colleges that use similar systems; I think it is pretty rare.
Curious as to what the scenario is to cause you to want to ask this question
bopper,
to make a long story short. I don’t like the counselors…in my opinion, they lied. One of the counselors didn’t even blink when she lied in court document.
ACT scores are sent to the high school- there is no way to stop them being sent, short of lying and claiming you are homeschooled when you sign up.
It’s easy to keep your ACT scores from being sent to the high school. You just don’t enter a code for that part. This is what we’ve done for 3 kids since 2005. It’s how ACT told me to handle it. My issue was the high school automatically puts everyone’s ACT scores on the transcript. Umm, that sort of makes score choice meaningless. The school didn’t seem to understand that, so we just made sure ACT didn’t send it to them.