Common Data Set: How to locate

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<p>Hi:</p>

<p>After a year on CC, I'm still a newbie with all the lingo and resources!</p>

<p>Can someone tell me what is the common data set and where it can be located?</p>

<p>Also, I'm still not clear about Naviance. Is that something our school has, or we can find independently?</p>

<p>I'm sure there are resources out there on CC already on these, so just point me in the right direction. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Naviance is available through your school (or not if they don’t pay for a subscription). As far as the Common Data Set the easiest way to find it is with Google. Google Common Data Set ____ University. Some Private Us don’t publish their CDS and you may have to look for a freshman factbook.</p>

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<p>A good place to look for the common data set and ‘fact books’ for a specific school is to find their Institutional Research depasrtment page on the school’s web site. It is this department that is often responsible for compiling and publishing assorted facts about the schhol. Examples…</p>

<p>[Institutional</a> Research: Iowa State University](<a href=“http://www.ir.iastate.edu/]Institutional”>http://www.ir.iastate.edu/)</p>

<p>[Northwestern</a> Data Book: Administration and Planning - Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/data-book/index.htm]Northwestern”>http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/data-book/index.htm)</p>

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<p>just google: [name of college] common data set. For example, searching ‘ucsb common data set’ yeilds the following:</p>

<p><a href=“http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/CommonDataSet.pdf[/url]”>http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/CommonDataSet.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>note, not all colleges make their CDS available. USC does not, for example.</p>

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<p>Also there are some great CCers who have compiled this list:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/76444-links-common-data-sets-posted-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/76444-links-common-data-sets-posted-colleges.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Quoted for truth.</p>

<p>I’ve found the CC CDS Link to be out of date.</p>

<p>Google is your friend.</p>

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<p>If you can’t find a school’s CDC, a lot of the data you are looking for can be found at the College Navigator website, run the by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
[College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)
It’s a great site to search for schools (you can export the search results to a spreadsheet), and compare schools.</p>

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<p>Just google. Any list like the one cited in #5 gets out of date quickly. There’s no benefit to using those lists versus just googling.</p>

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<p>One of the USCs (Trojans) is well known for not showing its CDS on its web site. The other (Gamecocks) does have its CDS on its web site.</p>

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<p>The College Navigator site can give you some good info but it’s missing quite a bit of data: what criteria and weighting is used for admission, GPAs or grade deciles.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much for all the input and pointers. I am already finding college navigator to be a big help. </p>

<p>I’m still trying to figure out Naviance, but I’ll probably have to contact our HS.</p>

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<p>crizello–ask your child if they have Naviance, they will probably know. If your school does not have that, Cappax is basically the same thing. Yes, scores are self-reported, which for some reason sets people off here, however, why someone would put in that they were a 4.0 with a 2300 SAT to see if they are a fit for a school when they really have a 3.0 and a 1200 SAT? The Collegeboards site (SAT) site is the entity that collects the common data set info so their numbers match that information.</p>

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<p>I’ll check out Cappex.</p>

<p>At my kids’ school, the guidance is, shall we say, understaffed, and unless the kids are on top of these things, it is not something that is commonly discussed with students. I certainly can’t find anything on the school website about it. </p>

<p>But the lack of good guidance counseling is another thread. . .</p>