<p>Well, I guess that would address the confidentiality issue! :) Or some aspects of it, anyway.</p>
<p>frazzled, as far confidential, well someone from another area of the country or state will not know the students at all. Confidentiality within the same small high school, nah, they are only fooling themselves. Many kids know too much about everyone.</p>
<p>We also don't have scattergrams, but this is the first year so I assume it's because there aren't enough data points yet.</p>
<p>Agree about confidentiality. I know the only two kids applying to a school my ds is interested in, so I can guess pretty accurately what their stats are. We're also a pretty small school, so it's not surprising. No biggie to me though.</p>
<p>Oh, and ds and I use the same account, so counselors don't know whether I am on it or he is! But y'all guess who has spent the most time on there. :D</p>
<p>If not enough people have applied, the stats won't come up on ours because that would destroy confidentiality; my D applied mostly to the schools that "everybody else applies to" so the scattergram data was valuable.</p>
<p>Public shools use Naviance to help conselors to keep track of student applications. Besides the statistics, Naviance can tell the counselors which colleges each student is applying to so that they can send recommendation, which students have not requested for teacher recommendations,... Naviance is also a mean for shools to send common messages, reminders,... to parents and students. Confidentiality is not an issue because each student can only knows about his/her own game plan. They only post statistics of past students (no names).</p>
<p>The only thing I don't like about Naviance is it asks students to fill out questionare to "help" students determine personality and career. I think this kind of psychometric evaluation is not accurate and should be done by professional psychologists. Students can incorrectly interprete the results. Even if it has some validity, students should not use them faithfully. Personality is not something static.</p>
<p>Our school suppresses scattergrams when there aren't enough datapoints - though they are somewhat inconsistent about it. So for example - those two Stanford acceptances are up because lots of kids applied. It's easy to figure out who they are if you are familiar with the school. I actually go looking for Mathson's mark at the school's he applied to. It's still there. :) Even when the scattergram isn't up if you go to the college match section they'll tell you the average SAT score and GPA for the acceptences for that school.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't do any of the personality profile stuff...all the info in there about D is her GPA/SAT and schools she's sent apps to. No ECs or whether she prefers a big school or a small school or what she wants to major in.</p>
<p>Our hs supposedly applies restrictions in order to protect confidential information, too. They only report stats for schools that receive 4 or more applications. In theory, that should do it. But if the student or parent has shared the standardized test scores, list of schools, ED status, etc., with others, the scattergram isn't necessarily anonymous. If a kid is the only student who applied to a particular college with a 28 ACT, its possible to see what the GPA is because of how the graph is plotted. This isnt Naviances fault, or the schools, of course. Its maybe one more reason not to overshare info during the college search. Some folks might not mind others knowing their SATs/GPA/application results (especially if they dont intend to exaggerate them ;) ).</p>
<p>My D sent ACT scores only - the SATs were much lower. Her acceptances are plotted on Naviance using only SAT - not ACT. I think it could be a bit misleading to use her datapoints as indicators of her HS's acceptances to various schools.</p>