<p>Is there anyone else whose school uses Naviance?
I had a question...
If you click on School stats in the college's profile, it shows states for both Regular and Early. Why are the GPA's and SAT's for early a lot higher than regular? I thought it was easier getting in EA then regular to some schools?</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but isn’t it because EA applicants tend to be more qualified (better GPA, hook) and that’s why they apply EA? Don’t quote me on this though.</p>
<p>Im not sure, I honestly thought it was the opposite way around
Kind of scared me beacuase i’m applying EA to two of my top schools…and i’m a very average (if not below average) student</p>
<p>Oftentimes, the people who apply early are those overachievers. </p>
<p>Although in your case, you’re applying early to demonstrate your interest, which is also a good thing. Just make sure you show how much you want to go to those schools.</p>
<p>It seems to me that in early action (non-binding) colleges accept those students who meet and exceed their standards–as if they don’t think they will get better applicants in the regular pool. Early decision (binding) stats may be skewed a bit depending on whether the school does need blind admissions. And since you are talking only about your school with Naviance, you may have REALLY GOOD college counselors who only recommend that the very best students apply for early decision or action. There are several factors that could change the stats when you are only looking at one school.</p>
<p>OP,
The EA v RD Stat skew is pretty common for high schools (I know of 3)
that send 15-20% of their students to USNR top 20 colleges.</p>
<p>A smaller % are ready and apply to EA/ED compared to everybody during RD.
At the top 20 colleges there is some degree of self selection. Applying to
HYPMS for example with deficient SAT and GPA composites is a waste of money
unless there is a significant hook (a very small % of applicants would qualify in
this special category).</p>
<p>Hence when you look at just your high school’s Naviance you are bound to see
a high outlier bias towards the upper level GPA and scores.</p>