<p>I requested my school’s profile, but it doesn’t say anything about the colleges students matriculated to. X% went to a 4 year college, mid 50% range for SAT and ACT, all the courses offered, X% above a 4.0, how many APs, etc. but not info about college. Did I get the wrong profile?</p>
<p>^ sara - I’m guessing you got the right profile … which is why the Naviance data would be really helpful IF it contained data on how well students at your school succeeded with their applications.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks NewHope33. Do colleges see where students from the previous year matriculated? Though the top ten got into Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, William and Mary, and a couple other top schools, eight out of ten are choosing to go to the state flagship. I hope this won’t hurt me, colleges seeing that the grade above me went to a less competitive school.</p>
<p>No such animal in our schools…where 50% drop out before graduation. As the class sadly shrinks…it also gets harder to stay in the top 10%…astounding loss by 12th grade.<br>
Our GCs may not even know Naviance exists. However they do the best they can with no resources and plenty of other priorities over college planning.</p>
<p>No, my GCs are incompetent</p>
<p>Family Connection is the same thing as Naviance. The information in the scatterplots is specific to your high school which is what makes it useful. Where there used to be just a circle showing the intersection of my son’s GPA and SAT scores there are now red x’s or green diamonds. (I think the original materials when they introduced the program said TCCi on them, though I don’t see it on the links we have via the school.)</p>
<p>Our profile has a list of colleges that have accepted students from our high school, but I don’t find that useful. What you want to know is what sort of grades and scores you need from your school.</p>
<p>Ha. Our school having Naviance. That’s funny, that really is.</p>
<p>I find a lot of parents on here assume that GCs must have some idea what they’re doing, which–even for decent high schools–is often not the case. Sometimes the students far outstrip the administration.</p>
<p>We just got Naviance last year. So combine that with a class of only 200 and there is not that much data. Also they are not showing the admitted student stats because it would give away the students identity.</p>
<p>No Naviance here either. When I asked the GC about it last year, she said she’d never heard of it. And we’re in a good district.</p>
<p>When our school got Naviance they went back and put in a couple of years worth of data so that it was useful from day one. With 600+ students per class, it must have been a huge job! The first year there were a few schools where they didn’t publish the scattergram, only averages because there were so few points, but I haven’t seen that any more.</p>
<p>Yes, Tcci/Family Connection are part of Naviance. Our school system must have been one of the early purchasers of this system, because they now have ten years of data. We found it more helpful than pretty much any other source, because it told us how kids from the programs my kids attended did with particular schools.</p>
<p>Did not have as much info on some of the LACs, esp. those not on the East Coast.</p>
<p>If your kid’s GC asks for college results data, please provide it! It will help next year’s parents and students with better decision making.</p>
<p>NewHope33, The family connection site we use just has info on my S’s school.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t have Naviance, either.</p>
<p>When pressed, the guidance counselor was able to give us a rough ballpark (decile) where a kid with my daughter’s predicted GPA would fall in class rank, based on the school’s usual rankings.</p>
<p>In addition, if the school is on the list that has a “challenge index” >1, which I think is published by the USN&WR, you can get some rough idea of where it sits in terms of being challenging. For example, locally we have some schools where just about every college-bound student is taking AP classes, and others where that’s not the case. </p>
<p>I did look at Naviance scattergrams from some nearby schools that had guest access to their pages, but it seems they all are much more “challenging” than my daughter’s school, so it’s a little tough to make direct comparisons.</p>
<p>The one thing I did get out of looking at several schools’ worth of scattergrams on our local flagship was the sense that a GPA of 3.5 is an important dividing line for them.</p>