Which top DMV High Schools give access to Naviance/SCOIR for college search

[Anonymous]

Prep provides access to SCOIR junior year.

He does everything through SCOIR. It is quite impressive. Takes out a lot of the stress in tracking dates, where you and applied, stats in average SAT/ACT etc etc.

I must be misunderstanding. GDS provides. I access to these kind of tools at all?

[Anonymous]

Sorry. GDS provides no access to these tools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. GDS provides no access to these tools?

Only in a convoluted way. You need to ask your assigned CC for data for a specific school. Some CCs will provide screen shots, and others only average numbers. It’s infantilizing. They don’t trust parents or students with the graphs.

[Anonymous]

But my DS uses SCOIR for much more than the school stats. It is an organizing tool and a way for his school to get notified they have send recs and transcripts to a school?

How does GDS do it ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A GDS thread mentioned they get no access whatsoever - not even in the CCO office.

Can others weigh in on access to Naviance/SCOIR at other schools (ie. Sidwell, Potomac, Maret, SAES, Landon, Bullis, GTPrep, SSSA)

I don't need a lecture on whether Naviance and SCOIR are useful - we had a DC apply to college recently. We already know Naviance/SCOIR have their limitations; the college application landscape has seen continual shifts year upon year recently and there is lack of context on whether accepted students had hooks (which remain - even if schools remove athletes - which not all do). That said, we still found it very helpful early on to see which colleges seemed to like/dislike students from our school and to see which colleges were very popular vs less so. It was also useful to see if acceptances were very heavily weighted to ED vs not. So, we'd like to have access to this again for our younger children who are applying into HS (and are spreading a net beyond where our older children attend/attended).

STA only allows you to access it if you go into the office and sit at their desk which is weird for most parents to do. So unless you have a kid that will do this often and knows what they are doing it is not very helpful.

[Anonymous]

Why do schools restrict access?

[Anonymous]

Georgetown Prep gives parents and students access to SCOIR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep gives parents and students access to SCOIR.

And it actually is a great tool used to research schools, show your preferences, make suggestions to student, keep track of your application process, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS CCO believes that less information = less stress. I have a senior and we received information about college counseling very late in the game--like in the second half of junior year. They leave it up to parents to know to schedule college visits at the end of sophomore year/beginning of junior year. If you want to apply to colleges in Europe, they don't tell you at the end of sophomore year that you need to sign up for multiple AP tests at the start of junior year. For these kids, their parents already have to be in the know, otherwise you kid is locked out of that option. They also don't encourage multiple takes of the SAT; ideally, you want your kid to start taking the SAT the summer before junior year so that you have the option to take more tests if necessary.
Just know that if you have a HSer at GDS, to get started on the college stuff earlier than the CCO says is appropriate; prepare to take AP tests elsewhere and sign up early; and prepare to take SATs earlier. Also, don't tell the CCO that you have an outside private counselor. Last year, GDS told families who had hired private college counselors that their kids would not be allowed to sign up for their summer college essay workshops, and limited slots were for those kids who didn't hire one.

STA and NCS don't start anything until the second half of junior year either. I think this is pretty typical.

[Anonymous]

One of the ways colleges track interest is tracking the research a kid does on their school through these systems under their own ID.

[Anonymous]

Holton does SCOIR, gives all access to parents and students.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell uses SCOIR. Parents and students have access, starting right after 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell uses SCOIR. Parents and students have access, starting right after 10th grade.

What about Maret or NCS/STA?