<p>My child's school has Naviance, but they will not give parents or the kids a password to look at it. I was told if the parents wants to look at it, he/she must come in to the admissions office and one of the admissions people will supply the password while you look at Naviance in the office. What is so secretive about Naviance? There are no names associated with it; it's my understanding it is just five years worth of data of where students from that school applied, where they were accepted, rejected or waitlisted, and what their GPA and SAT/ACT scores were. Am I missing something? Is this the norm at most schools?</p>
<p>It is not the norm at my daughter’s school. Every student/parent gets a Naviance account in October of junior year and the account remains active until August after the student graduates. The only thing that I can think of is that your child’s school does not want to pay for this service for all juniors and seniors.</p>
<p>My school doe snot give parents the information and has a similar policy as yours, but gives all students an account srltarting freshman year.</p>
<p>I think there are different modules or functions a school can choose to use in Naviance… your school may not use what some other schools are using. Our school only gives access to students and parents near the end of Junior year. I think they don’t want people obsessing over it before then…</p>
<p>If that is how they do it, then go into the office and do what you need to do. If you can look at the Naviance graphs by test score by college, see if you can somehow screen print (maybe screen print & paste to Word if they don’t know how) the ones your kid is interested in that have data in them. That is the most important part of Naviance. But know that not all schools enter all the data or enter it correctly – it is up to the school to get the info in there. I know my D1’s data (from 5 year ago) is incomplete for schools where she was accepted but chose not to attend. So even if you can get it, the quality may vary depending on how diligent your school is at maintenance of the data.</p>
<p>I suspect the school just doesn’t want to administer the password assignments and maintenance of having to answer questions from parents. I am not sure how Naviance is hosted, but server or network capacity could also be an issue.</p>
<p>My school has emphasized using Naviance since my freshman year, so I dunno what your school’s policy is regarding it…</p>
<p>There is nothing secretive about Naviance. I think it is a rather important tool to see where kids from your high school move on. I guess different high schools have different policies. You can ask them for the username and password and access it at home. The only problem I see them having is their failure to update the records accurately so they don’t want you to know their failures?</p>
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<p>The OP is saying the policy at their school is to not give them ids. They may not have access set up via the web from outside the school or something. So I don’t think this request is going to do them any good. Also, it isn’t just about where students end up attending – it shows where they were accepted with the statistics (GPA and test scores). You certainly can’t see the rest (ECs, subject tests, essays, teacher recs). But it gives you an idea for some schools. So the OP should ask to look, but will likely have to do it with the GC.</p>
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<p>That’s either a ridiculous policy, or they might only have a license for guidance to view it. At our school each child has an individual account. That might be more expensive. Naviance is a profit making business.</p>
<p>if they don’t have individual student accounts, then how does information about which colleges students apply to and which ones they get rejected/accepted make it into the system? In most other schools students enter this information and they get notes towards the end of the year to complete this info before they graduate. If the GCs are doing it then I can imagine there being large holes in the stats and it may not be relied upon.</p>
<p>In my school we get an account freshman year and are expected to use it starting then. I would fight them on this because Naviance has been such a great help in the search process. If you can’t get it then also try ■■■■■■■■■■. I use the two of them together and it gives you a ton of information.</p>