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<p>Mine provides a drop-down menu where you can select weighted or uw GPA, as well as SAT or ACT (we’re in ACT-land).</p>
<p>I love the scattergrams, but have found a large number of them display a privacy statement instead of the graph. Anyone know why that would be?</p>
<p>^ Not enough data points. If only one student was accepted to a particular school, everyone would know who it was, and hence would know that student’s grades/scores.</p>
<p>A slight digression - I wish my son’s school was more respectful of privacy issues on Naviance. It will post the data for a college even if only one student has applied during the covered period!</p>
<p>Over the summer I had a long back-and-forth with my son’s guidance department because of the policy. My son is the only student to have applied ED recently to the college he is now attending, and I had a hard time convincing the guidance head to NOT post his scores on the college’s ED table in Naviance. The guidance head was not getting that all my son’s friends knew he’d applied ED, and all they had to was look at the table and they would see my son’s GPA, ACT, and SAT scores. It might has well have been labeled with his name! We finally compromised that my son’s status would be reset to regular decision so he would blend in with the applicants.</p>
<p>Naviance was very helpful to me in identifying schools that were realistic for my son. But as others have said, you can’t tell anything about EC’s, legacies, or other factors that affect the admission decisions.</p>
<p>I understand the privacy issues, but perhaps they could just ask the student. I know for my oldest he could care less if people identified who he was. It wasn’t a secret how many schools rejected him (lots) or that he got into some great schools as well.</p>
<p>I agree with your suggestion, mathmom. Ask students if they want their stats entered into Naviance.</p>
<p>But I do think there is a difference between people knowing your acceptances and rejections and knowing your GPA or ACT score. I suspect my son wouldn’t care about the former but would about the latter.</p>
<p>I think Delamer mkes a very good point. Many GCs are so attuned to the top kids that they do not look at issues from the perspective of a kid who might have data below 3.0/500</p>
<p>Where’s the ED table? I’m not seeing that particular piece of information in our school’s naviance file.</p>
<p>^Go to College Lookup for the school in question then click on “School Stats”.</p>
<p>^Thanks! I see it. I get a little lost in Naviance sometimes. These stats are a big help…something new to waste my time on tonight. :)</p>
<p>If I got any pushback from a counselor about having personally identifiable data disclosed in Naviance, I’d probably generate a letter asserting a violation of FERPA.</p>
<p>Our HS lists the last 4 years of data (2006-2009). I didn’t check to see if they have a cutoff of not listing data for schools with less than “x” applicants, but schools with few data points on the naviance charts can’t tell you much. Also, if they don’t limit the information to just the previous year it would be difficult to identify a particular student. By the same token, having multiple years on the chart can skew the charts predictability significantly, especially over the past three years. Nonetheless, I think Naviance is a great help to identifying potential match and safety schools and showing which ones will probably be a reach.</p>
<p>Our counselor uses it like a bible. One thing though is that when too many are on wait list, the status does not get updated for ‘withdrawn’.</p>
<p>^^Same with our school, pixel, or worse yet, the waitlist mark disappears^^ I think he only uses watilist-denied and waitlist-accepted. There are a lot of us that lose interest in a school once we are waitlisted.</p>
<p>MomLive - Been there, done that!</p>
<p>You will find it useful. Keep a close eye on outliers, particularly the high end ones. There was middle-of-the-road college on my son’s school’s Naviance system that had one applicant with something like 4.5/2200 stats with only a handful of other applicants. I figured he or she raised that average accepted GPA by 0.3 or so and the average accepted SAT by something like 150 points!</p>
<p>Also sometimes it is obvious when you look at the a scattergram that everyone who applied with, for example, a GPA of 3.2 or higher got in. Or that everyone who applied with SAT’s of over 1900 was accepted.</p>
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<p>Excellent point. I was concerned when I noticed that the average GPAs for my son’s safeties seem unrealistically high given the nature of the schools (big, state universities). I finally realized that it was due to all the high achieving students who were also using those schools as their safeties.</p>
<p>At my son’s HS the Naviance data is all self-reported. If a student didn’t want his stats to appear in a scattergram, he could simply not report that he had applied to that particular college.</p>
<p>You all realize that Naviance and CC are owned by the same company, yes?</p>
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<p>So that explains it. I was wondering why, on the Naviance pages for certain colleges, there were links to CC threads!</p>
<p>My S school uses Naviance to communicate with the students and set up appointments with admissions folks. Since he is just starting junior year, I was not aware of all of the other great possibilities. I’m going to explore ours and see what I can find.</p>
<p>Our highschool does not use Naviance (never heard of it until CC), and very few of the students apply to top schools, so there would not be enough data to be useful. So I’m basically trying to do the same thing for my son by combing through the stats on the college websites, and the College Board site in order to categorize his list into reaches, matches, and safeties. </p>
<p>So, could someone explain a little more what is plotted in the scattergrams? (Wish I could see them - I am a numbers guru!) Is it the sum of the 3 SAT scores? Or just R+M? Are SATII’s included? Are ACT scores converted to an SAT scale? I assume the GPA is on a 4 point scale, UW. Our school uses 100 pt scale, weighted.</p>