<p>Does anyone know if individuals can set up Docufide or Naviance accounts for free? As a homeschool parent, it would be so much easier for one of my son's colleges if I had an account and could submit documents electronically. If anyone is familiar with these, please feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>Thank-you so much!</p>
<p>Hm, I guess I’ll contact the college directly and ask my question.</p>
<p>I don’t know about Docufide but I do know Naviance is a service sold to the schools. They would have no incentive to offer it for free.</p>
<p>Thanks, Erin’s Dad. I didn’t really know what Naviance and Docufide were but it sounds like schools pay plenty to use them, so that’s out.</p>
<p>I know homeschool students in our district are given access to the school libraries (it’s required) and other school resources. Why don’t you call the local public high school and ask if you can get an account?</p>
<p>Moonrise,</p>
<p>When you say “get an account”, what does that mean? Are you saying all the parents here on CC have their own Naviance account through the school? We are on familiar terms with a local high school counselor as she has known my son since 8th grade since he takes his AP exams there. Maybe I can email her and ask about Naviance. I should have thought about this sooner.</p>
<p>For Naviance students are given a user name and password to access their information. Their test scores, GPA, colleges they are interested in, colleges they have applied to and status/results of their applications are stored in their account. They can check how kids from their school historically have done with similar stats when deciding if they should apply. </p>
<p>That information is then stored in the schools Naviance data base for several years so that students from that school can get comparisons on how others from their school with similar GPA and SAT have done with colleges that they are interested in. They can compare themselves to others with the same GPA and SAT and see whether those kids were accepted, rejected, wait listed etc. It can be a little more accurate than the general comparisons on college board or college web sites because it takes into account how a particular school and their student body are viewed, and have done.</p>
<p>There is more to it than that, but if you are homeschooling I don’t know if the comparisons would have any bearing. So, even if you could possibly get an account through your local HS, there won’t be any info you cant get elsewhere. Since your kids didn’t go to that school it wouldn’t necessarily help to compare how kids from that school did in the admissions cycle as a gauge for how your kids will do.</p>
<p>You can often log in as a guest if you visit other schools’ webpages and find the Naviance link. The scattergrams are there, but since your student isn’t on the same grading scale, this site’s SuperMatch may be more useful anyway.</p>
<p>Like POP said, all our HS students have an account which they use in conjunction with the Common App. It’s very convenient–hopefully you can link up too.</p>
<p>I dont see how either Naviance or Parchment/Docufide would help you. As stated above Naviance just gives you a history of how kids from the school/district did at the colleges they applied to - it’s helpful to know whether it’s easier or harder to get into certain schools than others. As a home-schooled student your child would not be in the same category.<br>
As for Parchment/Docufide - it’s just a way for a high school to manage the electronic sending of a bunch of transcripts - instead of doing it in-house they hire a 3rd party and charge the students for each transcript sent. Not sure what kind of transcript you send - whether it’s through a home-schooling group or just from you - but paying a third party to do it wouldn’t really make sense.</p>
<p>Adding - our public schools here dont pay for Naviance but it was a very helpful tool at a previous private school - you may learn that your district doesnt even have it</p>
<p>The Common App has been sufficient for me to upload all my documents as a counselor (transcripts, recommendation, school profile) but for one non CA school and one scholarship, I don’t know how to get all that documentation to them from my house. I thought Naviance was a way for the counselor to upload documents; I didn’t know any other use for it. My printer is not printing well so I’m going to try the library and/or FedEx/Kinkos.</p>
<p>Because schools want to see more documentation from homeschoolers, I have to send schools more stuff.</p>
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<p>Schools do use it to submit documents. However, parentofpeople’s explanation is probably the most common use.</p>