<p>I was looking at the Naviance scattergrams and was wondering, do colleges let high schools know if a student is accepted/rejected/deferred etc?</p>
<p>My registrar enters the colleges we apply to and there are four columns. The first three are empty and for the Results, it says "Unknown"</p>
<p>My Application | WL | Defer | Results</p>
<p>So ya, I was just wondering :)</p>
<p>My sons’ GCs learned of acceptances/rejections only from what the students told them.</p>
<p>Our schools asks the students to report decisions to their GCs.</p>
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<p>That was our experience,too.</p>
<p>But some things are open to interpretation. For example last year D sent out two early applications, one binding ED and one non-binding EA (we made sure that this was OK). She received the ED acceptance and told her GC right away. At this point she had to withdraw the other application, however the response had already been mailed out. It was also an acceptance but GC posted it on Naviance as a withdrawn application. Didn’t affect us, but I thought it was misleading to others using Naviance.</p>
<p>I have wondered this about our high school, since the numbers online never seem to add up. I think the kids have to report back to the counseling office, and many don’t.</p>
<p>Some colleges do report back. But mostly they learn from students. </p>
<p>Since the colleges expect transcripts and recommendations from the high schools, I think it would be a nice courtesy for them to send a letter/email with the results. I wonder why they don’t.</p>
<p>Because it’s none of the high school’s business. I would NOT want my son’s high school notified of results by colleges. My kid deserves his privacy.</p>
<p>One school that my son applied to asked him to sign something that gave them permission to notify his HS of their admission/rejection decision.</p>
<p>If you expect high schools to help with the college application process (suggest appropriate colleges to apply to given the history of acceptances from the high school, write recommendations, send transcripts etc.), I think they deserve to know the results. It helps them do a better job of advising if they know what the results are.</p>
<p>That makes sense. So I assume the scattergrams aren’t 100% accurate, then? I mean, people could just be lying to save face. I can totally imagine my peers saying “I got into Harvard/Yale but I decided not to go…”. Kinda sucks because the scattergrams helped me determine which schools were matches/reaches etc…</p>
<p>I hoped our HS college counselor would hear of my daughter’s results. My daughter was given terrible advice. I wanted the CC to know, and to explain herself. </p>
<p>As others have indicated, this information could help guide future advising, and make Naviance more meaningful.</p>
<p>When we met with the HS CC to discuss results, she seemed to know who had gotten in where, though it was unclear if there was any formal notification to the HS from the colleges.</p>
<p>The seniors were asked to submit their final college choice to the counseling office. At the end of senior year, they were given a booklet listing their classmates’ names and college destinations.</p>
<p>je<em>ne</em>sais_quoi, our high school does a similar thing. But it would be easy for the counseling office to figure out where the college destinations are - just look at where students are sending the final transcripts.</p>
<p>Terp, I think Naviance is a helpful start, but a lot info is omitted and can also be inaccurate. For example, my son could have entered one SAT score and then he could have retaken the SATs and not updated the higher scores. He could have taken the ACTs too and not updated with a higher ACT than what the conversion chart indicates is higher than a SAT score that he might have listed. It does not factor in ECs, legacies, URMs, not applying for FA, essays, additional information, etc.</p>
<p>I have looked at the acceptance history though to see how many students have matriculated to individual schools. This is not scientific, but I do feel that if a fairly high % of students matriculate to a school that is not in the most competitive group, I feel that there is a good chance that a fair number of those students received relatively good financial packages from that school. As I said, not scientific, but just another data point for me.</p>
<p>quite true. Naviance should not be the only tool used during the process</p>
<p>I’m betting there’s an agreement that if we, as parents, use Naviance, we have to provide accuarate information. That said, I gave our GC an incorrect SAT II score and there that incorrect score stayed on his profile until I informed her of my mistake. This may be true with college acceptance/waitlist/rejection notices. The system only works if parents and students are forthcoming and accurate.</p>
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<p>I could see how some kids and families might think that their college choices are not their classmates’ business either!</p>
<p>Seniors are required to update Naviance at the end of the year to fill out the senior survey and check the college they’ll be attending in the fall. They get leaned on pretty heavily to do this. The final issue of the student newspaper includes a 2-page map of the country with every student’s college destination indicated.</p>
<p>Our HS does not provide a “final list” showing where students are going, but I wish they did. With 3 kids, I think it would have been helpful for my children to be able to envision where they could get into (of course, this wouldn’t have those elements like scores/legacy, etc, but it would be a start). It could also have helped my kids to know who they could ask about a school, and maybe even stay the night there. My sons knew where most of the seniors were going anyway.</p>
<p>But I see why our HS doesn’t do this: the dreaded waitlist. What if those plans change?</p>
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<p>I felt the same way when my child was looking at colleges. But because of privacy concerns the school was not allowed to provide this information. Last year the school newspaper staff gave every senior a voluntary survey to complete and then published them. Most seniors were happy to have their plans published.</p>
<p>At DD’s high school the girls could wear a college sweatshirt instead of the uniform top once they were admitted. The school also required that the girls bring in their acceptance letters. What a smart way to keep track of who gets in and keep Naviance up-to-date.</p>