Hello,
I was just wondering if the school counselor gets notified when the school’s students get accepted to colleges.
Is this true?
Definitely true. High schools need to know what colleges their students get accepted to, so they can help other students make realistic choices. Also, any college you decide on will ask for your final grades, and your counselor will have to provide them. They want to ensure you don’t succumb to senioritis.
this means that they get notified as soon as the students get admitted correct?
I was really confused because this guy told me that he got into williams, amherst, and brown, but I didn’t see the names on the graduation sheet where they listed all the schools that the students got accepted to.
This is something that a student self-reports to the HS counselor.
The colleges and universities do not notify the HS counselor of a student admit.
If a student neglects to report an admission offer, then the counselor will not be able to include it on their list.
Sometimes a student will let the counselor know about their intended school only after they’ve submitted their deposit and intent to register form, so that the HS counselor will know where to send the final transcript.
Our HS has about 600 per graduating class and doesn’t list all acceptances, even at the honors awards ceremony. There would just be too many, and there is potential for embarassment too. However, the school also uses Naviance. It’s very helpful for future classes of students at the HS if the seniors enter all their acceptances on Naviance. So our school uses a Senior Survey that is supposed to incentivize the students to enter their info. I don’t remember what the incentive is. I know the info on our Naviance is imperfect, though. For example, it will show no one admitted to School X from the Class of 2013 when I know that a student from that class is enrolled there. Ideally you want that info on Naviance so you can see the GPA/Test score information for the students that were admitted, deferred and rejected.
At my kids’ school counselors are notified of where kids are accepted. Our school uses Naviance, so maybe it is indirectly done via that website, but scattergrams will often fail to display accepted students due to privacy, becuse too few kids applied to a given school. At any rate, a counselor will definitely know where you have decided to attend because they need to send your final grades. They are not going to send your final grades to schools you won’t be attending.
@dadak99 , I doubt a graduation sheet would list all the colleges a kid has been accpeted to. By the time you graduate, all students will most likely have made their decision. I imagine the school the student has chosen to attend would be the one listed, unless a kid made it off a waitlist after graduation.
“I was really confused because this guy told me that he got into williams, amherst, and brown, but I didn’t see the names on the graduation sheet where they listed all the schools that the students got accepted to.”
Here’s the source of your confusion - anyone can say anything, I myself have won a Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer Prize, USAMO, the gold medal at the Olympics, and I swept the caucus in Nevada. See how easy it is?
No current HS senior has, in hand, an acceptance from Williams, Amherst and Brown at this moment. All three practice binding Early Decision. Thus, it’s impossible to have been admitted (by mid Feb) to all three. RD notification for each is ~ March 31.
If this is what you’re saying someone said to you: that person is lying – it’s impossible.
If you’re talking about someone who graduated last year: then you’re nuts to expect a list of all schools which accepted a student. It’s no one’s d**m business.
@T26E4 read post #2 more closely. Since it mentions a graduation sheet, I think it refers to a past graduation year.
OK. But I know my kid’s school never reported to anyone where she was admitted besides listing her destination college on the graduation program. The data of the other schools went up on the Naviance scattergram but nothing was appended to her directly. Again, it’s no one’s business.
Our local paper publishes a list of colleges the class was accepted to and asterisks ones they are attending. No names, just a list. Every year around graduation time.
Alot of information might be self-reported on the student’s part.
Or the school might just keep it internally.
For example: Howard University has already sent out decisions. I know more than one person in my school has gotten in. Yet no data was displayed on Naviance for 2016. Then I went in to have my Guidance Counselor ship materials for an MD program at Howard, one of which was my acceptance letter. The day after, Naviance reported that one person had been accepted, presumably my data point.
Regardless, other students don’t have to know where one gets in. Even on naviance, I can only guess at a few people’s data points based on ACT and relative GPA over the 5 years shown, but everyone else is anonymous, as it should be unless one desires otherwise.