Naviance Scattergram Questions

College Search & Selection
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<p>In case someone here knows the answers ...</p>

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<li>If there are a small number of applicants to a particular college from my D’s HS, the message “Display of this graph has been restricted to protect student privacy” appears. Which makes sense. If only two students, let’s say, apply to Xxxxxxxx University and didn’t get in it might be easy to figure out who it was and be embarrassing for them.</li>
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<p>But there are also schools that had scores of applicants and the same “student privacy” message appears. Anyone know why?</p>

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<li><p>How come the number of applicants listed doesn’t equal the number of entries in the scattergram?</p></li>
<li><p>The number of applicants listed for some schools is almost twice the number of seniors at my D’s high school. How is that possible?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>They go back several years usually, so it’s multiple classes added together.</p>

<p>Don’t know why they block the listings.</p>

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<p>GolfFather, I think the statement about protecting student privacy is usually one student that was accepted. If nobody was accepted, ie only rejects, naviance would show 2 rejects.
For number 2: I think check the ACT side, not just the SAT. Also students update the naviance, some of them don’t bother to update and that could explain why.</p>

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<p>I’ve heard that some parents complain that their student might be identified, so they will request the data be kept private. (i.e. National Merit Finalists or the Valedictorian who did poorly on the ACT) That said, if there is a particular school that interests you, the guidance counselor may be willing to share some of the “private” information. I think our GC knew who each point on the graph stood for.</p>

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<p>The Naviance at our HS had the same issues. I understand that it it can be restricted if there is a limited number of students with acceptances or rejections, not enough of SAT or ACT takers (it can be restricted for one standardized test and not the other). But at our school (as noted above) the HS dean/guidance counselor had a version available which included every student so he/she should be able to provide guidance on specific schools if the Naviance is not available to the public. Our Deans also had other details not available to the parents such as if any of the students who applied were special cases (athletes, legacies), who applied ED.</p>