On our DS’s large, public high school naviance site, above the scattergram for each school, is a bar chart with the number of applications for each of the last several years. There are already 2022 applications showing up for many schools…in fact, for some schools, the number of 2022 applications is close to (or exceeding) the total number of 2021 applications for the same school. We are still a week away from November 1st (the ED deadline) so I can’t believe that so many kids have already submitted applications to some of these schools (especially since many of them only have ED, not EA). Is it possible that these bar graphs are not reflecting actual submitted applications?
Holy cow, I was coming to post the exact same question. On our local parenting board, there’s speculation that the numbers for 2022 applications on the Naviance bar charts either signify the number of students who have requested transcripts to be sent to a particular school OR the number of students who have included that particular school on their list of “colleges I’m applying to.” I hope someone here knows definitively. It has been very unnerving to see the numbers rise almost every day.
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I think it has to be one of these explanations…our school is a very large, urban high school where I think only a small percentage of kids apply ED…and the 2022 numbers simply don’t square with this. But it would be nice to get definitive confirmation!
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Just checked Naviance for our large, public high school and there isn’t a bar for 2022. Seems like yours must be tied to transcript request or “colleges I’m applying to.”
The odd thing is that there are no bars for some colleges that are on my DS’s “applying to” list and to which his transcripts have been sent…but there are for others… maybe there have to be a minimum number of students to make the bars appear (e.g., more than 5)?
This is a question I’d ask the GC. Our bars are there too, but nothing seems unusual. I never thought about the bars being linked to transcript requests ot colleges applying to. I always thought it showed when kids actually applied.
We sorted through this last year in the class of 2021 thread. The numbers are from kids having the college in their “Colleges I’m Applying To” list. And there may be a minimum number required before that bar will show.
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