Naviance in the Covid Era

Does anyone think Naviance will be at all helpful for the HS class of 2021?

Nope, and scatter-grams like it were never very helpful to begin with, apart from figuring out where your stats were competitive at (although they don’t account for students who are legacies, recruited athletes etc.) Most colleges post their class profiles online (or you can look for their Common Data Sets on Google,) which can help with finding out what schools your scores/GPA in-range (though again, doesn’t account for applicants w/hooks or for varying school difficulties etc.)

If you’re applying to selective colleges practicing holistic admissions, your ACT/SAT/any other test scores you have and your GPA/courses are just ONE part of the application review process. IMO, once you’re at or above the range for the schools you’re interested in and have decent extracurriculars (what the T50s expect is different from what the T20s expect which is VERY different from what HYPSM expects, and CC can help you figure this out from reading past admitted students’ profiles, although these tend to be self-selecting, so keep that in mind,) apply and hope for the best. Make sure you’re applying to safeties and match schools as well.

Hope that helps! Good luck with admissions!

Unlike the poster above, we found naviance quite helpful in my daughter’s college search, partly because it helped contextualize the grade deflation at her school vs the published averages from the college websites, and in general it was a good guide to match/safety schools. (We knew what the reaches were anyway.) I would expect it to be less useful in a world which is currently mostly test optional, but it should still give you a rough idea of how to judge schools.

It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing. Grades are not standardized, even within the same high school, but it may provide some clue about how past students from your high school have done.

That’s pretty much their entire purpose, no?

I don’t think the type of student a school admits changes In the current environment, so I think it will still be just as effective at indicating how students at your school have fared when applying to various Universities. Which is better than generic, global score ranges.

The level of effectiveness is debatable, but it hasn’t changed.