Naviance and the Common App

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>My school requires me to waive my rights to view LoRs through signing an agreement on my Naviance account. This, I am okay with and I think is quite common. What my school hasn't been clear about is if they have access to the information I submit to colleges. On our school's scattergrams, GCs have the ability to look at data points and then see their profile. They have information on AP scores, ethnicity, legacy status, first-gen status and a whole slew of things. Do they get this information from the Common App information we fill in? If my counselor tells me a certain student only got into a school because he/she was a legacy (which she did tell me), can I be sure that this student informed the university, via the Common App, that they had parents who went there? Something about me makes me uneasy about the fact that my school has access to all this information, which is supposedly private, about me.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Any info your school counselor has is because it’s already in the student’s high school file or because the student shared it with the counselor. Entering your CA log in information only allows the Naviance edoc service the ability to transfer documents to your application. It doesn’t give counselors access to your application. And for the most part, only the college admissions people know why a person was admitted. Anyone else is just making a guess, educated guess or not.</p>

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<p>Okay, so I should take profiles of students that my counselor has with a grain of salt? The resume I gave my counselor was far from comprehensive (especially compared to my Common App one) and I was afraid the inconsistency between the two would’ve made my GC mad.</p>