Sorry for the long title, I couldn’t decided if there was a better way to word my question!
So where can you see the acceptance rate from your High School at various Universities? I’ve tried to find this information through our school district and they do not have it posted anywhere!?!?!?
Many schools use a site called Naviance to track this. It’s a general purpose college information site but it also tracks applications/admissions/enrolled statistics by college for each graduating class at the high school. See if your school uses it by following this link:
https://connection.naviance.com/auth/fclookup
If your school is listed, you should be able to get login information from your high school counselor.
Your high school probably has a career center that coordinates visits from college reps, etc. Ask there.
Easiest source is Naviance if your kid’s HS uses it. Ask the GC. Our kid’s school gave out login info sometime junior year.
If your school doesn’t use Naviance, you can bet that the guidance counselors have their own system for tracking this kind of thing. So make a pre-college application appointment for yourself and your kid with the counselor so that you can start collecting the data that you and your kid need.
The nice thing about Naviance is it also provides information on they types of stats the accepted students…and ones who didn’t get accepted have for the colleges where info is entered.
Really…the overall acceptance rate isn’t as important as the stats those accepted students had. The Naviance scattergram shows this.
But Naviance is only as good as the information put in. My kids never put theirs in, we never used it.
The other big question I had is all these people posting on CC saying “the top 10 kids got into X,Y,Z”. How do people know who the top ten students are? Or the top 10 %? And how do they track where they go to school? Do schools make this type of info available? (Clearly…ours did not…and a generation ago mine did not.)
Your school probably doesn’t post it publicly, since you could figure out the SAT scores of particular kids, knowing they were the only one who went to a particular school. Naviance gets around that by not posting stats of schools that accepted only a few kids from your school.
But I bet that if you made an appointment with your guidance counselor to discuss this, he or she could get you the information you want without compromising anyone’s privacy;.
@SwimmingDad the people who post that have a fairly accurate Naviance. At our big high school, gpa and sat/act are automatically entered. And they can’t send transcripts without entering which schools they’re applying to. Then they have exit meetings and everything is updated.
It depends on the school. Our high school included the student’s percentile rank in their grade report, and the top 10% were recognized during various awards assemblies. So it was common knowledge who those students were.
As college acceptance decisions rolled in, word spread quickly and most students knew where each other had been accepted. The high school also published a class roster toward the end of Senior year that noted what each student’s plans were after graduation, including the college they planned to attend. This info was all voluntarily provided by the students, but most did.
Our school announces the top 20 students They also had the Summa, Magna, cum laude designation, so you could kind of figure out that the top 10% were in the Summa group
One of my kids was a top 10 student in her class. The Board of Education held a special reception for these students. The colleges they were attending were announced at that meeting. A newspaper reporter was there too…and it was in the local paper. It wasn’t big secret where these top ten kids were going to college.
I graduated from HS almost two generations ago…or so it seems. Even I knew where the top ten kids went to college…and my HS graduation class was over 1000 kids.
A generation ago we knew basically who the top kids were…there were 38 of us (out of 750) that had all our classes together. But no ranks.
Our school here doesn’t rank. I just asked my friend’s son (who is one of the top handful in his class) and he said everyone knows the top one or two but then there are a few dozen in the next grouping.
I was just curious because I hadn’t heard of schools actually announcing it. Our high school (or rather the tiger mom families) would explode if they did. The suicide rate is already too high without a battle for a ranking of 10 versus 11.
Ours not only announced the top 20 (and of course the Val and Sal), they sat in the summa, magna, cum laude groups in the graduation. There were 6 NMF and not all of them were in the top 20. It was pretty easy to figure out.
In our HS, guidance handles Naviance. I don’t believe the kids or parents can enter data so your student’s stats are probably on there whether you know it or not. The GC may have to ask the kid if they were admitted if the colleges don’t inform the GC.
I would bet that a lot of the information people post come through the kids. Kids know who gets in where and who they think are the “top” students. There was a FB page for where students were going to go (not necessarily everywhere they go in). But I would bet there is a lot of guessing as to who is “top 10”, unless it is based on GPA only.
Announcing, seating them together…and people blame colleges for the pressure? Our school didn’t publicly rank, had no top ten or val/Sal. They did away with honor societies.
Kids knew which of their peers were strong. And by April 1, who was going where. At graduation, the school also printed that. But seriously, knowing where the top ten went isn’t a full clue for highly competitive holistic colleges. We never used Naviance. It was obvious the stem brainiacs went off to MIT, Ivies, and other top stem schools. In our kids finding matches, they weren’t competing on stats alone.
Thanks for the Naviance tip… our school doesn’t use it. I have a general idea of where most kids apply… I just want to see the breakdown of who actually gets accepted!!! As of right now the HS counseling dept is no help, they just aren’t as involved in my area as they are in other areas. HS kids don’t ever ask for recommendations (for their college applications) from the HS counselors here.
@SwimmingDad Our school has a Cum Laude Society and the inductees are listed in the yearly honors convocation along with the school they have accepted. Our school inducts 10%. We don’t know every school that accepted the student, but we do know what schools the students will attend. The “top 10” graduates from every school in the district are listed by the district along with the schools they plan to attend. The high-performing kids themselves tend to convey their various acceptances on their social media, but that method is, of course, not entirely accurate.
Our school does not use Naviance. The kids do know their rankings, however. It is on their transcript, I believe. I do’t understand how your child’s school would not rank the kids, maybe not publicly, but I am sure they can find out their ranking from the guidance counselor.