<p>I’m not going to attempt to explain the anomaly regarding the phantom Yale admits at the rival high school. I think others have brought up some very good points. I do know that for a school with nearly 3k students our Naviance is riddled with errors. My own son’s data is wrong. It only concerns me to the extent that students are getting the wrong data when looking for benchmarks, but there it is. I also know that for the university he is attending for the graduating class prior to his both the number of students accepted and attending is incorrect. I can personally name more students then they have listed so by default both numbers should be higher. So, just two examples but if I can find those there have got to be countless more.</p>
<p>Under normal circumstances I would really scratch my head and wonder why the heck the OP was even on another school’s site to begin with, however with the information that her student was accepted and had the information of other students accepted locally I can see where curiosity might come into play. It’s not as if the OP is randomly checking local high school’s acceptance rates. There was an honest progression to this. Something not all of us may have acted on, but I get why she did.</p>
<p>My kids went to a magnet high school program that touted its college admission results and IB test pass rates to attract applicants. If it falsified that info, I think it would be quite naughty.</p>
<p>Someone posted upthread that the kids themselves input the information into Naviance. Is this correct, or is just to mean the reporting is from the student.</p>
<p>Agentninetynine–I posted that our kids put their own app data in. I’m not sure what you are asking though. Yes, our kids add in which colleges they applied to and if they got accepted/waitlisted/rejected, etc. For our school you click a button that says “add school” and you search from the list either by school name, state or city then click on the one you want and it is added to your list of “colleges I am considering”. Having those schools on your list also triggers an email from the GC if that school is visiting our school, etc.</p>
<p>I should add, at our school it is set up if you apply via the common app if you don’t have that school set in Naviance the GC can’t send out any transcripts, etc. so if you are doing that, it’s best to get those schools added.</p>
Our school has this option to, but the GC didn’t input that you’d applied to a school until after she’d written all the GC letters. The GCs know where students have applied because they have to send out transcripts. There might be a handful of schools where students don’t end up completing the applications, but by and large the GCs know exactly where the students apply, so they can follow through and find out where students were accepted pretty easily.</p>
<p>mathmom–our kids are the one that change the “considering” to “applied” at our school. They are also the ones that put in if they have been accepted, etc. DS has one school on his list that he hasn’t applied to yet but is in the “applying” queue. He hasn’t decided if he is going to apply there or not so he just left it there.</p>
<p>FWIW – the key person at our high school’s college counseling center has told me that she thinks Naviance is aggregating data from beyond our high school, because the numbers don’t match up for her either, and she sees everything and is the person in charge of the school’s system. She has not been able to get a convincing explanation. Kids do not enter their own data on admissions results. All the high schools in our district use it. She is both incredibly experienced and very, very ethical, so I trust her when she says she doesn’t understand where some of the data points come from. But, we’ve always known that Naviance needs to be taken with some grains of salt. Maybe a few more. (There also seems to be some data conversion going on with kids who did not take SAT possibly getting “converted” ACT scores so that they show up on the SAT scattergram. Again, not in all cases, and seemingly not something the school is doing.)</p>
<p>arabrab–that is interesting. We have several high schools in our district and some of the numbers for some of the schools baffle me. I wonder if our district does the same thing? One school has stats blocked on the scattergrams to protect privacy, yet shows that 65 kids have applied to that school (from last year). That is a LOT of kids but if it draws from the 5 high schools in our district the numbers make sense and the fact that it’s blocked with such a large number of applicants-maybe just a few from one of the schools got denied admissions so that is why it is blocked??</p>
<p>I’ve never really put much stock in the acceptance data from Naviance so it doesn’t really matter I guess.</p>
<p>Naviance is a good tool, but that’s all it is. It would be handy if the numbers were up to date and reliable. DD attends a private school so I’d be surprised if it contained numbers from other schools.</p>
<p>Could the class of 2011 in this case mean something different for their purposes i.e. the class applying in the fall of 2011 (but really referring to the graduating class of 2012)? </p>
<p>Are both high schools considered part of the same school district? Is it possible that both schools combine the acceptances for purposes of Naviance? That would certainly be misleading.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting arabrab, I was hoping this thread might attract some people with insider information, although if the person who is technically in charge of your school’s Naviance is confused by it, that’s pretty unsettling!</p>
They do at our HS. Perhaps this is configurable according to a school’s preference? At any rate the ability to report one’s own results and choice in Naviance easily explains the OP’s observations. Four students, with no particular incentive to be truthful, independently decided to say they were accepted to Yale. One said s/he was going. No one audits the data and no institutional duplicity need be assumed. I suppose the Naviance administrator, who has the ability to see how individual students responded, could follow-up if data didn’t correspond to reality, but who would have the time and inclination to do this?</p>