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DS also attends a school w a smaller sized graduating class. The way his school preserves confidentiality is to not show data for schools w few applicants and few admits. Therefore, data is displayed for Stanford, but not for Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Privacy does not matter much. Students already graduated and it does not hurt them when people know which colleges accepted them. Many of them post acceptance info on FB. My kids’ school distribute a complete list of names and schools to attend at the end of the senior year. The list is given voluntarily by students and all of them participate.</p>
<p>Naviance scattergram only displays data points for students who were accepted, not data points for students who actually enrolled.</p>
<p>Ours shows data points for all who applied,accepted, waitlisted or rejected. But also not for schools with few applicants.</p>
<p>So, are you all aware that College Confidential and Naviance are owned by the same company? Or that in addition to those two Hobsons also developed the back end technology that drives the Common Application?</p>
<p>^ I only became aware of Hobsons when I received an email this week asking me to be a survey participant/tester for…the *chance *to earn a 30 dollar gift card. Whee.</p>
<p>I e-mailed ds’s GC asking whether ds was in the ballpark for one of the schools that wasn’t displaying data, and she just sent me the info anyway. Try that.</p>
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<p>I think the point is that, in some small schools, everyone does, indeed know which schools accepted which students. And using the scattergram, knowing which schools accepted which students allows anyone to figure out individual students’ GPAs and test scores. Is that the end of the world? No, but it is the student’s private business and I certainly didn’t want everyone in my town knowing that information. Just because I’d graduated didn’t mean I was out of Dodge for good. My parents lived there. </p>
<p>You might think that censoring the information if there were only a few data points would work, but if you have 12 applications and one admit to, say, Princeton, is that “too few data points”? Everyone in my community would have known who that one admit was.</p>
<p>All this being said, it’s a remarkable resource, and for kids at very large schools, I see no downside.</p>
<p>I was just on Naviance last night, and what’s weird is I don’t recognize which dots correspond to my older children, as none seem to. I am assuming they are using un-weighted GPA, which helped bridge the difference, but even so something is wrong.</p>
<p>DP - If people don’t know the admitted kid then the scattergram cannot tell them anything about that kid.</p>
<p>Agreed. That is why I said I see no down side for larger schools.
I just find it a little funny–ironic, maybe?–that the service has some origins that involve a school so small that everyone DID know the admitted kid.</p>
<p>In a large public school, only a few tippy top kids are admitted to top colleges and these kids make a few data points identifiable. And people almost always know who these kids are through school activities or year end award ceremonies regardless Naviance is availabe or not. So it’s not very different from a small private school.</p>