Our FCPS uses Naviance to share whether students have been accepted to college. Until maybe a month ago, this data included, for each college, information from the past few years: how many students applied early (and how many got accepted), what the lowest GPA accepted was, and what the average GPA accepted was. The same was provided for regular admissions cycle. The information was available not only for school with a lot of data, but also for small schools. Some of the data was provided for individual admissions cycles (like how many applied/were accepted).
Now I am on Naviance, and I cannot see any of this data. If a school has enough applicants, a scattergram is available. But for smaller schools with no associated scattergram, and even for the schools with the scattergrams, there is no available description of the lowest GPA or SAT/ACT score accepted or the number accepted early vs regular admissions. I can see the number applied and accepted for the past few years, but now only 3 years of this information is available (previously it was 5 or 6).
Am I looking in the wrong place, or did Naviance just remove a whole lot of data?
Yeah I’m experiencing this as well. Really frustrating! The data used to be really helpful to decide whether or not to apply to certain schools but it’s gone. I’ll ask my counselor when I get the chance.
Schools pay for Naviance. Maybe your school opted for a cheaper plan whihc includes more limited data? I really don’t know. Our school has never had the info you describe, and scattergrams are only provided if enough students applied to certain colleges. This is supposed to protect privacy when a small number of students apply to a given school. Naviance isn’t very useful at our school for admissions stats, though it is useful for other things. Maybe it depends on what your school signs up for.
That makes sense except that all the information was there until last month or so! Very strange indeed. I wonder if they realized that the range of GPAs and SAT scores among accepted students (though not linked), together with the info about how many applied, was almost as much information as the scattergrams. As you pointed out, they only allow people to see if enough students apply (for “privacy”). It would be nice to know if some schools are completely unreasonable or if they are real possibilities! I thought the GPA ranges were helpful.
My personal humble opinion thinks that having latest 3 years works better for me. There could be a big discrepancy when you include, say, past 10 years of data in admission requirement. For example, there is a sharp interest in applying to Computer Science major compared to 10 years ago. Looking at an average of 10 years gives an illusion of hope.
Funny story to share: yesterday I was told in the old days getting into UCSF for medicine was more difficult than Stanford. But nowadays, Stanford has the lowest admission nationwide.