<p>I read a lot of people talk about how accurately Naviance predicted the outcome of college acceptance & denials much in advance for them. My daughter's school does not use Naviance. The closest I came searching the web trying to find a similar tool was College Board and Princeton Review websites where you enter very basic info such as preferred geographical setting and major etc and it spits out the list of 500-1000 colleges that fit the criteria. Does anyone know of any website/tool similar to Naviance where one is required to enter student's subjects, grades, test scores, etc and get more precise predicted 'college matches'?</p>
<p>Many of the sites allow you to put in SAT/ACT scores and GPA’s…I always liked the website run by the U.S. Dept of Education "<a href="http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/“>http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/</a>”. If you use the “more search items” on the left you can enter more criteria, such as % students admitted, ACT/SAT ranges…One bonus is that it allows you to download the resulting list into Excel and use it as a starting point for subsequent research.
The College Board site also allows you to input SAT/ACT and selectivity, did you try that?
Have you tried College Confidential’s Supermatch???</p>
<p>College Data has a scatttergram tool that is very similar to Naviance. Here is one for USC stats for 2015, but you can enter any college and any year as well as choose wait list, deferred, and athlete stats.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Southern California Admissions Results for Class of 2016](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?schoolId=1138&classYear=2016]University”>College Admissions Tracker - See Who Got In Where and How You Compare | CollegeData)</p>
<p>You can also enter your own info and see how you compare.</p>
<p>Cappex is the same as Naviance. It has the same college search engine format and the scattergrams like Naviance. Use a little used -email if you sign up though, you will get a lot of “this college is looking at you” emails.</p>
<p>We used petersons before CC.
[College</a> Search - Find a College That is the Best Fit for You at Petersons.com](<a href=“http://www.petersons.com/college-search.aspx]College”>http://www.petersons.com/college-search.aspx)</p>
<p>Do keep in mind that all of those sites that use scattergrams are VERY unscientific. All of that data comes from students or parents who have entered their stats and acceptance results at that website. Here is the disclaimer from collegedata:
“Keep in mind that the Admissions Tracker Results include only students who have created CollegeData Admissions Profiles — not all students who applied, or will apply, to the colleges.”</p>
<p>I do like the format of the their website though, and it is tempting to look at those scattergrams! </p>
<p>Naviance uses (I believe) the data from students from your own high school.</p>
<p>BeanTownGirl-other people have said that about Cappex but honestly, so what. Most people are going to put in their real numbers because it is for their benefit to do so. I find it much more helpful, and the numbers pretty much the same, as the results I see on Naviance at our school. The problem with Naviance, however, is that every school our son is considering is blocked by the school for privacy issues. That really doesn’t tell us anything. Even on Naviance, it isn’t like if you hit the magic spot on the scattergram you are 100% in. It’s for informational purposes only.</p>
<p>Parchment dot com is pretty good. Again, it is self reported, unlike Naviance. They have a pretty big database, however.</p>
<p>Hi, there is no one solution ‘out there’ that is comparable to all of the aspects of Naviance. Naviance is much more than just a college planning/match tool. If your daughter’s school doesn’t currently have it, why don’t you talk to the Guidance Dept and suggest they look into it? :)</p>
<p>I’ve used Parchment, Cappex, and the “Can I get in?” thing on the Princeton Review website. Princeton Review was nice, as it told you whether the school was a reach, match, or safety. Parchment was also helpful.</p>
<p>Our school also doesn’t have Naviance, but even if we did, I don’t think it would be incredibly helpful. We have a class size of 150, and less than half of that ends up attending a 4 yr school, with the majority of that half attending SUNY schools. For many of my schools, I was the first person to apply in years from our HS. It would be hard to check my chances with few data points.</p>
<p>I found that CC’s Supermatch is not so super…more of a blunt instrument. I’ve entered my D’s stats a few times and found their suggestions a bit odd. FOr example on our “must-haves”, I entered “urban or near urban” as well as liberal-leaning. One of it’s suggestions? Bob Jones University! Really? Not even close. Most of its recommendations had far lower test scores than ours. There’s no option to enter gender and, as many of us now know, being female puts you at a competitive disadvantage. Sometimes it seems that Supermatch just pulls up schools we’ve never heard of. Our GC offered more interesting suggestions. Our school does use Naviance by the way, I just have to get my D to show me how to use it.</p>
<p>I would also love Supermatch to identfy schools that give merit aid versus need-based aid, rather than just asking what we can afford to pay. I think it could pull some of that data from existing data, which would be helpful. We could put in our AGI or just have the schools marked by an check mark or something.</p>
<p>I took a look at Cappex, and I’m pretty skeptical of the information for selective schools. It’s unverified, self-reported info. I think the info on rejections might be more accurate than the info on acceptances.</p>
<p>Cappex and parchment also have a hard time with small schools. My DS was given 0% chance of getting into his safety school because the only people reporting were internationals that were denied. </p>
<p>That said, it is not a bad place to start.</p>
<p>Naviance is an outstanding tool-very accurate with college matches. I have never found anything as spot on.</p>
<p>The difference with naviance is that along with general match info, it also provides extensive data on gpa/scores of admitted/wl/denied students in the person’s own school. Then you really compare apples to apples.</p>