If your son is bothered that someone knows his GPA and SAT score via naviance due to the few number of data points on the scattergram, I would discuss this in general with the school. Some schools do not generate a scattergram unless there are enough data points so that nobody can figure that out.
Right…at our school…if only one kid applied to,a college, it was NOT included on the scattergram at all.
But as noted by others…your kid benefited from the Naviance data provided by others. And your kid is in COLLEGE.
Let it go.
At our school, it is easy to figure out exactly what GPA and standardized test scores the top students have. When you know Jane is the only one that got into Yale or the Valedictorian got waitlisted at Harvard the information jumps out at you from the scattergrams. Our school doesn’t tend to block data - the one exception I know off is a very famous graduate. Her information was available for a couple of months but it got blocked at a certain point. If you have good results, then I think it is easy to shrug your shoulders and say who cares. If you were less than pleased with your results, then I am sure you are much more sensitive about your information being visible.
But this kid graduated already. Do you really think current and future students care who got in where…or know…?
I think this family needs to move on. Their kid is NOT in HS anymore.
We decided to ask the school to remove it since its small # of data points and easy to figure it out. If these data lost in the jungle of data we would not have minded but when it is fairly obvious, we have to do what we have to do.
What are you afraid of?
OP hasn’t been back, but possibly the kid was a recruited athlete whose score was lower than the norm for the particular school? I would think the school would want to block showing the datapoints in cases where it is easy to identify who a score belongs to–I know that is what our school handles it.
@bjdkin OP was back and posted less than an hour before your post. 
@Twicer we don’t want to create a false hope either way based on his acceptance or rejection. We never decided where to apply based on naviance datapoints. We visited, if felt good then only applied.
Whoops -sorry I started my post earlier, got interrupted and didn’t recheck the thread when I finally hit “post comment” . Carry-on
If everyone uses your reasoning. Naviance will be useless at your school. I wish you’d reconsider.
@mathmom Naviance is useless in my opinion. The college publishes what they look for and comparing who got in and who did not get in doesn’t determine your chances. Naviance, in my opinion, creates false hope or false despair. Every application is unique and comparing one with someone with GPA or SAT never works. And looking back, this data owns my a third party company which defies privacy is beyond crazy … we are out of naviance as we speak … I recommend the rest to do the same.
My D attends a small prep school and we found Naviance to be extremely useful and valuable during the entire college process this year. The scattergrams were on point and it enabled my D to put together a balanced list with great results. I can’t understand someone wanting to remove their kid’s info because someone might figure out who he/she is (unless a kid shared stats/results with classmates that were less than accurate). These kids are moving on to college… no one cares. The info left behind is useful to others.
@LisaNCState , privacy concerns are a personal issue and you are entitled to any position you wish to take on those. However, many people feel that Naviance, while imperfect, is the best gauge for a prospective student to identify possibilities and set expectations.
One example is for very high stats students to see how many peers from their school with similar stats were rejected by elites. Looking at those scattergrams provides a critically important dose of reality that may not be delivered by looking at the 75%.
Another is for kids to identify true admission safeties where their stats may place them. i.e. some state schools have a lower barrier for out of state applicants than in state (due to revenue concerns) and only localized admissions information can give them a reasonable estimate of chances.
Your data, and mine, helps those kids.
How will you even know your data is out of the system? One usually doesn’t have access to it after graduating?
For my kids, with a school that has a much different grading rigor than most schools in the country, Naviance was an incredibly useful tool. Looking at the patterns Naviance provided gave tons of direction on how to proceed that could not be found on CC or any online tool or school data published.
For us, naviance was very useful, to a point. Clearly, all it takes is one acceptance of a kid with lower stats or rejection of a kid with high stats to increase uncertainty. The other issue is that a number of kids may withdraw their applications if they ED elsewhere, so never get an acceptance or denial. But it certainly is enlightening to see that the vast majority of kids with GPAs over 4 and high SAT scores got rejected by HYPS. It really helped define reach vs match vs safety schools, much more accurately than looking at the ranges offered by the colleges. It appears that at least some colleges take the rigor of the high school into account when looking at a kid’s GPA.
Naviance is less helpful if your HS is very small or if the student is looking at an unpopular school. It also can be less helpful (but not worthless) for schools that have gotten very popular all of a sudden.
“Clearly, all it takes is one acceptance of a kid with lower stats or rejection of a kid with high stats to increase uncertainty.”
Rule out the outliers. Focus on the concentrations and patterns.
“The other issue is that a number of kids may withdraw their applications if they ED elsewhere, so never get an acceptance or denial.”
If your high school is managing the at a well, those data points won’t show up in Naviance - just waitlists, acceptances, and denials.
If you don’t have many or any data points for a particular college or if the data is unclear, it’s worthwhile checking with the college counselor. They can see data behind the dots and give you more flavor without sacrificing anyone’s anonymity.
I found Naviance incredibly accurate for both my kids. Our school doesn’t give grades in the 4.0 form and the various online calculators vary quite a bit in how they translate those grades. It showed which schools seemed to care more about grades and which about scores.
I have to concur that unless you think there is something really inappropriate being done with the information, I would let it go. Those who follow are so grateful to have some school specific data and experiences to learn from. Yes, it is true that kids, and parents, can figure out some of the data points, if it’s a small school. But that’s only being done to get a sense of what kinds of kids get accepted or rejected. I know I am very appreciative of the data I had available to me on Naviance, and would never do anything weird with it.
No parents will have bad mouth about your kid. Only your kids’ classmates know about him/her. But they don’t need to have Naviance to know.