<p>Naviance is so much more accurate because it gives you data from your own school, not #s that don't mean anything to you</p>
<p>a 3.7 at school A is not the same as a 3.7 in school B</p>
<p>a 3.5 [all honors ap] at my is top 5% [640 studnets]. Yes, we send plenty to top schools 20-40 a year</p>
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<p>it's all dependent on the school you're in. you have naviance, go use it</p>
<p>I agree. This is why I will most likely never post a chances thread for myself. :)</p>
<p>Where do you get info on naviance? GC at school?</p>
<p>Another question:
If you can read the results threads and can read the info on colleges’ and US News Premium College web sites about individual colleges’ average admissions stats and admission factors, why are you asking uninformed strangers on the Internet about your chances?</p>
<p>Are you equally reassured when people read tarot cards for you?</p>
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<p>My thoughts exactly. I’d much rather post in the ‘results’ threads when it comes time for me to receive my admissions decisions… far more helpful to people since they’ll be definite answers from the colleges themselves ;)</p>
<p>how do i find out the percentage of gay men at presently enrolled in vassar?</p>
<p>1) Not every HS has Naviance</p>
<p>2) Even if they do, there may not be enough data relevant to the individual student’s case</p>
<p>3) Even if it is relevant, the student may not believe it when he/she reads it</p>
<p>4) And of course 3) assumes that the student has the patience to log into Naviance, hunt down the information, and read it in the first place which of course is nowhere near as fun as posting a “chance me” thread here and getting a bazillion replies</p>
<p>ego-boosting. unfortunately.</p>
<p>Also, the info in Naviance is only as good as the info that is input by the high school. You have to take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>I use this site for much more than college admissions chances. I’m in cc’s March Madness pool; we don’t have one of those on Naviance.</p>
<p>At Vassar? 100%</p>
<p>Few students from my school have applied to the schools that I applied to (minus the state college), thus the information was not displayed because of privacy. =P</p>
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<p>The same issue with me. Also, my naviance doesn’t allow me to see the scattergram unless I’ve sent an official trasncript, which I didn’t have to do for the UC school system, which is tough. </p>
<p>Also, my school has a great number of athletes that show up on our naviance and throw off the averages (aka, a girl got into Stanford with a 3.3 weighted and 31 ACT for a sport and it threw off our Stanford average on Naviance). It’s nice to have the info on CC where it’s not limited to only a few factors and we can see other aspects of the resume.</p>
<p>^ You can always look at where the concentrated bulk of unhooked acceptances are; they’re always a bit above and to the right of the average line. It’s a pretty scary thought though, when you consider that the average SAT for accepted applicants from my school, including all the hooked applicants, is in the low 2300s for several Ivies. Take away the hooked applicants and it probably goes to the mid 2300s.</p>
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<p>That’s pretty incredible. I would say that our hooked applicants are pretty stellar as well, just a few outliers like that one I mentioned. </p>
<p>For our Berkeley one, however, only our recruited athletes have gotten in, so it’s interesting to see a cluster of 4.0+, 2200+ with X’s and then around the 3.6, 1900 area have a good cluster of green boxes.</p>
<p>I think “chance me” posts are silly and unnecessary, but my school has nothing like Naviance, and I think there are many others that don’t. Perhaps it is mostly the more competitive high schools that do? I’d never heard of it before I found CC.</p>
<p>I think it’s good to “post info on this site” if we’re referring to official decisions threads, personally. Like I said, not everyone has Naviance and seeing the results threads really is useful for people in my position. Besides, I’m pretty sure Naviance only shows numerical stats, not ECs-- and those are what matter most at the HYPS level (once you’ve got the numbers to back you up).
Though, again, if we’re talking about “chance me” threads, I agree. Those are silly.</p>
<p>My public school of 2,500 definitely does not use Naviance, so…</p>
<p>My school just signed up for Naviance last year, so the program is really new and most of the stats aren’t available because of the privacy policy when not enough people apply to a school. So basically it’s useless, there’s hardly any info available. Blehh.</p>
<p>My public school of 3,300 or so doesn’t have naviance. Hell, when I asked my guidance counselor if there were any stats on students and college, she said some 40% of us go to Community college, 30% go to State school, and the rest either get jobs or fall off the radar. She had no idea what happened. More and more of us are leaving, but this is still Arizona- everyone focuses on getting into state school- figuring out how to meet OOS/Private school requirements is all up to us. </p>
<p>My Freshman year, one girl went to Harvard, full paid, grant. It was aired on our student broadcast, and she cried. Last year, the Valedictorian/Prom King (Big nerd, though, haha) went to Yale, and this year I know one kid who got into MIT. Getting out is an accomplishment that totally reflects the student here- we don’t have any way to ‘guide’ us like Naviance. I’d never heard of it before this site.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how long Naviance has been out for, but even with 4+ years of data the sample size of students applying to TOP schools are too low to make a clear cut conclusion. Of course if you’re talking about state flagships and other popular OOS flagships, that’s a different story. My school’s is a little better since a lot of people apply to great schools, but the lack of data still holds true for most LAC’s and schools not in the Ivy League.</p>