Call Naviance or school directly? Is it possible to remove this information? Thank you!
Your school puts the info in, I believe. Applications will simply appear as a dot on a scattergram. Most, if not all, schools will not post info about schools that only have a small number of applicants, to protect privacy. So your child is totally anonymous.
well, the school my son went to is a private small school and it’s very easy to find who is who in the graph. Just curious
I think the individual school sets the policy on cutoffs for showing or not showing. I would talk to the school.
Great! Do you think it will look bad upon him? We already out of the school.
If you are no longer in the school no one cares. I know when our school started Naviance they put in a few years of data at once so it really wasn’t easy to guess whose dot was whose. They also didn’t post the dots if there weren’t enough applicants. It’s really a great service for the following students to see how your high school’s GPA and test scores are judged by colleges. For example, if you are at a school where they don’t give out A’s like candy, you can see which colleges realize an A- student at such a school is stellar, and which don’t.
Just curious why you care at this point, if he is out of the school? Do you think people will identify his acceptance history? Like mathymom, our HS (public, not small) includes 5 years of data on naviance and does not include schools where only a few kids applied.
It is very useful to other students to see how kids from your HS do in applications. Unless he didn’t tell anyone about his applications, kids will know where he applied and where he is attending (and whether he got in or out of his top choices).
he did not tell about where he got rejected of course but its out in open … it shows 3 points and its easy to figure out 3rd point is him and his GPA and SAT scores
The only solution to this at a small school is not use Naviance. If no one wants to report the bad news, or the scores, or the gpa, then it really is useless to help the next group of kids through with a realistic picture. “Oh look, only one person ever applied to JHU and he got in. I’ll get in too.”
Our school has set Naviance so that any school with a limited number of applicants does not show up on scattergrams - so your school should be able to block such data as well.
You can’t remove it… the data belongs to the school. I’d tell them about the rejections so the information is accurate and complete. Its such a great help for future students.
I’m sure no one is tracking your kid’s scores or GPA. If its all out ‘in the open’ anyway - who cares?
I imagine that now, a couple of years out of high school, neither of my kids could tell you what their exact SAT score or their precise GPA was. And the fact that younger kids may be able to figure it out? So what, it’s ancient history.
Your child’s HS GPA is irrelevant when he/she attends college. My son’s school would not divulge information on colleges with too few data points. You could tweak Naviance a bit by expanding the GPA and SAT ranges, but the information was not all that helpful and other kids would only know who attended a particular school - not where they applied.
How will the school know the results unless the student reveals it? And I thought the students put accepts and denials into Naviance?
At our school the counselors put in the data. They know where you have applied and they know where you are attending. I’m pretty sure that they can find out if the colleges don’t tell them whether a student got in or not. But I believe it mostly works on trust. Naviance does not work unless everyone gives truthful information. The kids are not dummies. They know that.
Honestly…your kid is no longer at this HS. I’d let this one go.
Your son had the advantage of Naviance data. That only happens if everybody plays. Encourage him to move on from thigh school angst and enjoy college life.
Why does everyone know his SAT score? My kids didn’t share that with anyone. How does anyone know where he applied? Again… my kids didn’t tell a bunch of people. Plus – as long as the data is accurate, why do you care? It helps other people coming behind him know what they might expect. No one outside the school can see it.
I think the point is that if the applications are sparse enough, you can see a data point at a particular X,Y point that say, got into Georgetown. And everyone knows that the only person in the last few years that got into Georgetown was Joe Smith. Thus everyone now know’s Joe Smith’s SAT and GPA from the X,Y point. But I agree. Who cares.
I agree just move on but if there is so few data points and the school feels kids can easily be identified Naviance does not show the points on the scattergram. You get a message that to protect the privacy the information is not available.