What happened to Naviance?

[Anonymous]

This is SO frustrating and not helpful at all

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our MCPS school Naviance no longer shows how many students are applying this year. It used to show the numbers in real time. Now it only shows past 5 years. I am wondering if this happened to all other schools that use Naviance or it's something about our school only?

Same here. That’s annoying.

Same for us. Also MCPS. That was useful information!

There was an update and some features were removed. I liked looking at the numbers by year and the overall acceptance rate and the average gpa and sat scores. Both gone.

Our school still shows these, I think. Might be an option your school turned off.

[Anonymous]

The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

This is what so many families are saying of their school naviance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

Yes, the school's counseling office doesn't know where you get accepted unless you tell them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

Two things: often schools depend on students to self-update. If they don’t, the data’s not accurate. This has always been an issue.

Also, our Naviance requires at least five students to show data. So, if there aren’t at least five applicants, it shows zero; same for acceptances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

This is what so many families are saying of their school naviance.

Same here. Not in DC area. Not helpful.

[Anonymous]

It’s only October and they don’t show data until a minimum number have applied. Also if MCPS, MCPS only very recently approved the language about new grading system to be added to transcripts and school profiles. So they may not have processed them yet. Or just not updated, other than UMD, which auto populates for us. Or maybe they cut feature.

[Anonymous]

the data is only as good as what the school inputs (and what the kids tell the school).

ours is good.

but geez, this new design where when you (+) on the scattergram half the plot moves off the screen is bizarre. why is that taking weeks for them to fix?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the data is only as good as what the school inputs (and what the kids tell the school).

ours is good.

but geez, this new design where when you (+) on the scattergram half the plot moves off the screen is bizarre. why is that taking weeks for them to fix?

Are they aware of the problem? It’s such a clunky website. What about having to scroll down a looong list of universities to find a school’s scattergrams. Can’t they have a search tool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the data is only as good as what the school inputs (and what the kids tell the school).

ours is good.

but geez, this new design where when you (+) on the scattergram half the plot moves off the screen is bizarre. why is that taking weeks for them to fix?

Are they aware of the problem? It’s such a clunky website. What about having to scroll down a looong list of universities to find a school’s scattergrams. Can’t they have a search tool?

They have a search tool. Enter the name in College Lookup (I think it’s called). That’s how I do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

Two things: often schools depend on students to self-update. If they don’t, the data’s not accurate. This has always been an issue.

Also, our Naviance requires at least five students to show data. So, if there aren’t at least five applicants, it shows zero; same for acceptances.

That’s aggravating. Our school doesn’t require a threshold minimum. A single acceptance shows up (and my kid usually knows who it is).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

At our school it is populated based on Common App data. Seniors have to fill out acceptance/rejection/where-attending data to have their final transcript sent to the school where they are matriculating. So not a perfect process but enough structure that our naviance data is pretty decent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of Naviance is that it’s not accurate. My child had friends go off to certain universities and yet Naviance indicates “0” students last year got accepted to said University.

This happens routinely. So what’s the point if you can’t count on basic data being updated? Do they depend on STUDENTS updating the data? Good luck!

Two things: often schools depend on students to self-update. If they don’t, the data’s not accurate. This has always been an issue.

Also, our Naviance requires at least five students to show data. So, if there aren’t at least five applicants, it shows zero; same for acceptances.

Our school has a much higher threshold. For “privacy reasons” - which is very frustrating! There is no data for many of the schools my kid is applying to.

[Anonymous]

Neither of my kids has access to either. One let's them see past history of admittance and the other doesn't show anything.