I am curious… DOes anyone know if the highschool is informed of a students college acceptances.
on one hand i think if WE update our naviance portal is the only way they would know but on the other hand i feel like the colleges have to keep the cousellors in the loop…
any thoughts
so does anyone know…?
At my kids’ high school, the only way the school knew about an acceptance was if the students told them. And FYI, not all schools use Naviance.
I worked for a university, and we sent acceptances to the students. We did not inform high schools.
My kids had to tell the guidance office of any acceptances they wanted the school to know about. They also had to complete a senior information form for the hs to send final transcripts to the chosen school.
It was the same for any financial aid. One of my kids didn’t tell the guidance office, so she wasn’t included in the senior award night.
There are colleges that do send the results to the high school. They will send a list of the students from your high school that applied and the decision outcome
Sorry, I was at work between your first and second posts.
Colleges do not touch Naviance-- that’s done by the student or the high school.
As others have said, the choice of a college to inform the high school is an individual one.
do hs then have access to a student common app?
thy send transcripts at application so they should know each students college list. now hs dont get decisions back from colleges thgh some do. is there a list of colleges that will send info to schools? where do i find tht info
They don’t have access to your common app. you create a username and password for that. At my son’s school, they submitted the info based off his Naviance list. It gets matched up by admissions at the colleges, I believe.
There are schools, both public and private, that are in fairly regular touch with admissions offices. I know that at the private schools my kids attended (two dd’s in NYC a decade ago and two ds’s now in LA) the college counselors talk by phone and email and get somewhat of a heads up about how their applicants are likely to fare.
Of course there is not a list like that. Why are you worried or concerned about who sends certain information to your high school? Just be truthful, particularly to your counselor, or you can come off as a shmuck.
The only way our HS hears back is from self reporting.
^^ that is absolutely not true.
As @david5454 stated, counselors talk to region admissions reps on the phone all of the time, especially if a student is on the cusp, wait-listed or may be eligible for another program with in the college.
@blueskies2day our school does an annual hs college acceptance report where all senior gpa and colleges they applied to (accepted/denied) are listed and is helpful for the following years to compare stats. i was curious of its source but if its via self reporting then i would be a little skeptical on the accuracy too. we are in the MA and are on naviance.
At my kids’ private high school, the counselors are notified of kids’ acceptances. They also keep track of ED/EA applications to make sure they do not violate those agreements. I was made aware of where D1 was possibly going to be admitted before the actual results came out, so it led me to believe her counselor were told beforehand. Her counselor told me that they had conference calls with college admission offices to go over the applicants. I wouldn’t be surprised if during those calls they wouldn’t indicate which applicants would be possible admits/rejects.
wow these comments lead me to believe that these conversations between the counsellors and colleges happen more in private schools than public. maybe because of the smaller class size. also maybe thats a way for the admittance rate to these ivys higher thru private schools are higher than public. being the ivys have a holistic approach to acceptance considering most applicants have high scores these conversations should sure help.
@comom25 I think the distinction here is not public v. private, but known quantities v. unknown. High schools over time get a ‘track record’ with certain colleges and the colleges, fairly or unfairly, feel like they are better able to predict success from those schools. I know the conversations happen with public schools as well, because our first son went to a high end private for two years and then the local public for two years. At college nights and during college visits to the schools there were similar conversations. One key difference: at the private school each college counselor has about 30 kids to look after. At the public, it’s more like 100 or 200. So the public school kids have to work much harder to be known by their counselors (so those counselors can have substantive discussions about them with college reps).
My kids high school is a top performing high school in suburban Boston…and large…with excellent placement at top schools (10+ per year to Harvard; 10+ per year to MIT; etc.). The counselors have no idea where the kids are accepted…they have far too many students.
My friends with kids in prep schools…those conversations between counselors and admissions officers happen all the time.