<p>Nope, we must not have it. I figured out how to reset my password and go in under my account, and it is still not there. :(</p>
<p>So sorry! There is a second way to access them. It’s a long shot for you (sounds like your son’s school has disabled the feature or is not keeping the data), but try:</p>
<ul>
<li>Go to Colleges area.</li>
<li>Search for a college. (Try your state flagship or someplace many kids apply.)</li>
<li>Click on that college’s link.</li>
<li>In tiny print in the middle of the page, there should be links labeled “Visit Website,” “Overlaps,” “School Stats,” “Graph,” and “Add to List.” If there is, click on Graph.</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks for trying to help. We must not offer it since these are my only 2 choices on the General Info page of UMass Amherst.</p>
<p>VISIT WEBSITE | UPDATE STATUS</p>
<p>Idahomom: congrats on Redlands!</p>
<p>Have you visited the school and area? I always thought it is a beautiful campus, but my D was convinced she didn’t want to go that far away for school (we are in NorCal)</p>
<p>All I get on Naviance are links to videos on Vimeo and an area that asks for your zip. When I put in my zip it tells me nothing is found and I should contact my child’s school. Ugggh.</p>
<p>MomFullofQs - maybe your school doesn’t use Naviance. Ask your child about it. They should at least have heard of it if their school uses it. Or there would be a link to it from the high school’s counseling website page. There’s a cost to Naviance that the schools have to pay to store data on it. I believe they’re charged per student which is why our school only keep 5 years worth of data on it at any time. It’s been a great resource with my for my first two children. Really helped me target schools for them.</p>
<p>Echo what bkbmom said. On our school’s home page, under the Guidance section, there is a pull down for Naviance. It is password-protected, but clicking on the tab launches Naviance. </p>
<p>ConfusedMomMa–the headings you mention sound exactly like how our Naviance page appears.</p>
<p>Under the college tab, above the College Research section, we have a section entitled My Colleges. To the left of that, there is a box where you can type the name of a college (header says ‘search for college’). This should then take you to the page of the college you typed in. Once on that page, you will see a few options: college stats, graph, and overlap. (Overlap is also useful as you see where other students who applied to school A are also applying to.)</p>
<p>The category ‘college look-up’ under College Research is the place where you enter the names of the schools your student wants to consider. At least, that is how I am using it. Once you have entered those schools, you then move on to ‘compare me’ which lights the scores up in green or red. </p>
<p>Hope this helped and did not just confuse the matter further. If only I knew how to attach a screen shot here, but I don’t.</p>
<p>Our school has Naviance, but the only access we have to the scattergraphs is through the college counseling office. It’s not enabled for parents or students to look at on their own at home. Might be the case w/ your school too.</p>
<p>CT1417 - Yeah, we don’t seem to get those options on the college page. We only have “Visit website” and “Update status” and then under those it has categories to look at more info about the school itself (General Info, Admissions, Financial Aid, majors and Degrees, and Student Life)</p>
<p>Too bad! Sounds like that other info would be helpful!</p>
<p>Confusedmom & umich–sorry to hear that! Our school does not identify ED & EA admits vs. RD and that would be helpful. (They do provide average applied and accepted stats broken down by ED/EA & RD, but not data points.) Actually, I just want them to flag the athletic recruits so that I know which outliers should be discounted entirely. </p>
<p>When there are very few data points for a specific school, they are not plotted on the scattergram in order to protect the identities of the students. I feel for you as it is helpful.</p>
<p>I’ll email DD’s GC on Monday. The only thing they have a link for is COIN.</p>
<p>I can see application info for my daughter’s colleges in Naviance but it looks like they don’t keep it updated well. I would assume it auto populates with the student reported data because it doesn’t look like GCs are keeping it updated. Our HS students are drilled to use Naviance but I think half of them must ignore it. But I think the only way to get transcripts sent is through Naviance.</p>
<p>Reason I say this is there doesn’t seem to be much data for our selected colleges. For example we know at least 4 students who applied to same private school in our region. But when you look at
Naviance it only shows some crazy avg GPA of 4.92 and I know its not accurate!! But if you look at local state college, SDSU there is tons of data for comparison. Geez, half her class must apply there. So I had to give up on Naviance.</p>
<p>@coralbrook, data from each graduating class is not loaded by my kid’s high school at all until the August after graduation. So, none of the class of 2013 data is there yet on numbers of apps submitted, numbers accepted, deferred, etc. And it won’t be until Aug 2013.</p>
<p>Our own kid’s data (his circle) appear on the scattergrams, but his data isn’t incorporated into the five year history yet. When the class of 2013 gets reported, the oldest data (graduating class of 2007) will disappear.</p>
<p>Is that what’s happening at your school, too?</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the info. I haven’t found the scattergram yet, I’ll keep looking. I’m seeing number applied, etc. Now I understand, I’m seeing numbers from prior years.</p>
<p>You’d think my D would be all over this stuff but she just doesn’t seem to have the obsession I have or maybe she is secretly checking everything out but not telling me. Mom just doesn’t understand why she isn’t on the websites day dreaming about her choices instead of hours on Facebook or texting. When I ask her where her friends applied she doesn’t even know or care.</p>
<p>However she does go to school in her #1 fav school sweatshirt occasionally. Hope that doesn’t bite her later when decisions come out. By now everyone probably assumes she’s going there:)</p>
<p>To Leacoop re very dependent children…
I have the exact same problem – seriously I don’t think my D has ever gotten through an entire day without me reminding her of things that were supposed to happen, not to mention getting her out of bed, etc. She s likely going to college a 15 hour drive from home. So I guess it will be trial by fire for us. Either she will learn to be self-sufficient very quickly or she will coming home. A pretty big risk but she thinks she’s up for it. I am not so sure!</p>
<p>mdnhmass…my daughter is an interesting mix of independent with a lot of dependency thrown in. She is now 12 hours away by car and absolutely flourishing, it is so gratifying. Does she still need us, absolutely! But she is figuring it out bit by bit (this is her second year at school). I am hopeful my son will be the same, I have seen a lot of maturity over the past year…</p>
<p>Just wanted to drop in, as I will be receiving decisions from numerous top-tier universities in the coming months!</p>
<p>Photomom - thanks for sharing that - it is encouraging.</p>
<p>Sorry I didn’t see Naviance question earlier MomfullofQs but seems everyone else has covered it! I’d encourage anyone who doesn’t have access to that info to contact their Guidance department and see if anything can be done about it - that information is so valuable and really gives a student the most realistic picture of their odds of getting into a school. </p>
<p>I have a friend with a daughter the same age at another (nearby) high school. We would sometimes compare Naviance data and it was fascinating how different the results were between the two schools.</p>
<p>Found the scattergrams on Naviance but it is blank and says "protected for student privacy ". And it looks like no prior students have applied to the same privates as my D.</p>
<p>coralbrook, naviance will not show the scattergram if there were too few applications (around 10 or less in the past 5 years) or if the data is otherwise too easily identifiable.</p>