In the words of Mark Twain or Eleanor Roosevelt or whoever else said it, “You’ll Worry Less About What People Think of You When You Realize How Seldom They Do”.
"Naviance, in my opinion, creates false hope or false despair. " - Since you said you didn’t use it, then your opinion here is a moot point. Many of us did us it (as a datapoint … not the holy grail) and found it highly useful. I’ll admit that it is not as strongly considered with a single student datapoint, but still helpful. You seem focused on the one student / school, but often parents are just looking at a cross-section of results for various schools etc. (I also looked at another program, maybe Parchment?. It gave a different kind of view, not as helpful since from many US highschools.)
The privacy concern seems a bit paranoid to me (except maybe for families that donated their way into a college acceptance.). But you know the full circumstances can can judge things better than we can.
Isn’t Parchment self-reporting, too? I would find that untrustworthy.
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Your kid is in college. presumably he had a computer with him. TBH…you have NO WAY to know whether he has any of these accounts…no way. He might not be using his given name.
And there is something to be said for learning how to set privacy settings on these social media things.
But back to Naviance…I think you are way overthinking this. Really…your kid is not in that HS anymore. What do you think is happening? That further classes are asking or know who went to what college?
Let this go. It’s just not going to have any impact on your kid. It’s not an invasion of his privacy (betting LOTS of his friends know where he is attending college).
And if he likes his college…this might give others the encouragement to apply there.