<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 donât have scattergrams, but this is the first year so I assume itâs because there arenât 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. Weâre also a pretty small school, so itâs not surprising. No biggie to me though.</p>
<p>Oh, and ds and I use the same account, so counselors donât know whether I am on it or he is! But yâall guess who has spent the most time on there. :D</p>
<p>If not enough people have applied, the stats wonât come up on ours because that would destroy confidentiality; my D applied mostly to the schools that âeverybody else applies toâ 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 donât like about Naviance is it asks students to fill out questionare to âhelpâ 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 arenât enough datapoints - though they are somewhat inconsistent about it. So for example - those two Stanford acceptances are up because lots of kids applied. Itâs easy to figure out who they are if you are familiar with the school. I actually go looking for Mathsonâs mark at the schoolâs he applied to. Itâs still there. Even when the scattergram isnât up if you go to the college match section theyâll tell you the average SAT score and GPA for the acceptences for that school.</p>
<p>Our school doesnât do any of the personality profile stuffâŠall the info in there about D is her GPA/SAT and schools sheâs 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 isnât necessarily anonymous. If a kid is the only student who applied to a particular college with a 28 ACT, itÂs possible to see what the GPA is because of how the graph is plotted. This isnÂt NavianceÂs fault, or the schoolÂs, of course. ItÂs 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 donÂt 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 HSâs acceptances to various schools.</p>