<p>Hello:</p>
<p>Please point me to another forum, if that makes more sense.</p>
<p>I keep reading mentions of Naviance, and I have no clue what that is. Where can I find more information, and determine whether I need to know about it?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I second this. I’m a newbie, so this info would be very helpful!</p>
<p>Naviance is a system used by high schools. It gathers statistics over a period of years for students of the school. Where they applied to and were they accepted, waitlisted, etc. Future students can compare themselves with this anonymous history to see how they measure up.</p>
<p>It also has a way to gather teacher recs, counselor recs, etc. and forward the info to colleges where the student applied. Lastly, there is a way to track colleges that you are applying to, others that you may be interested in, etc.</p>
<p>It has been a very useful tool for my son.</p>
<p>Schools have to pay to use it. You should check if your school does.</p>
<p>I believe that college confidential and Naviance have some kind of relationship.</p>
<p>So if my school uses it, then I can get access, but if they don’t I don’t?</p>
<p>Thanks for the help by the way.</p>
<p>Naviance is a subscription service paid for by the school. It permits the guidance department to send transcripts and letters of recommendation electronically to the colleges to which a student has applied. At our school, the Common App online account and the Naviance account are linked somehow.</p>
<p>You can Google and some schools allow guest access, but the greatest benefit is being able to compare your kid’s chances against other kids from his/her particular school.</p>
<p>Agree with YouDon’tSay… if your school does not purchase access and enter in all the info on their students and their GPAs/test scores/applications/results of apps, it isn’t much good. It is very powerful if you have that info, though, so I hope your school has it. Our school is withholding the student comparison info until January of junior year for our kids (coming up for D2); they figure without PSAT scores, it isn’t much good to us. I am itching for that access.</p>
<p>We used it often and it did come in handy. I hope your school is a subscriber.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine having gone through this process without it. If your school doesn’t subscribe, find out why and ask them to consider it. I think it’s invaluable.</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t subscribe to Naviance and can’t or won’t allocate the funds to do so, you can research, plot and organize your college search for free at Cappex. [College</a> Search, Scholarships, College Admissions Chances - Cappex](<a href=“Cappex”>Cappex)</p>
<p>Cappex won’t provide the back-end Guidance administrative support that Naviance does…for sending transcripts, teacher recommendations, etc. And it compares your chance for admission to those of the general pool of recent applicants, rather than to just your school’s alums, like Naviance does. But it’s free, and offers a decent alternative to help you target/plan your college search. There may be other free applications out there… but we used both Naviance and Cappex with success, when searching for schools for my oldest two kids.</p>
<p>“I believe that college confidential and Naviance have some kind of relationship.”</p>
<p>They have two children … HYPSM and SafetySchool</p>
<p>CC and Naviance are both products of Hobson’s, a company which specializes in higher education marketing and manages websites that help with college search and admissions.</p>
<p>There have been threads on CC where parents were kind enough to provide the guest logins for their schools. Even if your school does not subscribe, the info can be useful if you can find a school similar to yours (large suburban public, . . .). I think the first place everyone goes is to the scattergrams–graphs for each college that show by GPA and SAT how all of the kids from that high school did in terms of admissions (green for acceptance, red for denial, blue for waitlist, . . . usually five years of historical data). A lot of information displayed very succinctly. I love them.</p>
<p>P.S. This popped up on a quick google search: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/115922-if-your-school-guidance-has-naviance-please-give-me-code.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/115922-if-your-school-guidance-has-naviance-please-give-me-code.html</a> . I used it several years ago and at the time only some were still accurate. It’d be great if someone started a new thread on this.</p>
<p>It also helps because it breaks out early decision/action candidates from regular candidates, so you can see how much difference it seems to make in results. It shows the # of deferrals and then you can see how many of the deferred were admitted.</p>
<p>the web site parchment, formerly mychances, has beautiful stats and scattergrams for each university. Quality of the data will vary depending on the number of users who have submitted information. And of course the information is voluntary, so not guaranteed.</p>
<p>Guest access would not be that useful, though, because colleges have different relationships with different high schools. My D’s school has excellent admissions at some schools but not others, while your school might be just the opposite. If you aren’t looking at Naviance for your own school, you might as well use the similar tool on College ******* or something like that, which will give you a broader perspective.</p>
<p>^^^^^ p r o w l e r</p>