School exposed identifiable student stats on SCOIR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter though?

+1

We may be at the same school. Nobody is gossipy or rude. They are a supportive bunch. My kids immediately let their friends know when they get a rejection and don’t seem emotional or invested. It is what it is. If they have a friend really gunning somewhere and they don’t get in, they support them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should let this go -or- be PO'd and alert other parents. I've let college counseling know and they're "looking into it."

On DC's school SCOIR it has "Fall 2026" listed under "Application Type" - so if you know a student applied to X school, it's easy to ID the student. This class year identifier is not listed for any previous years, just if they applied RD, ED, EA, etc.

For example, only one student applied ED to Wesleyan, and on SCOIR, they're easily ID'd as:
Early Decision - Fall 2026 Denied 3.95

Our school's SCOIR not only lists whether they were accepted or denied with the "Fall 2026" identifier, but also includes GPA and test scores (if they submitted).

Isn't this self reported like naviance?

[Anonymous]

If someone applied somewhere ED and then was still applying to schools in the early spring, it’s pretty safe to assume they didn’t get into their ed school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thanks for responses. I'll chill. I should just be grateful DC got into their top choice and I'll never need to be on SCOIR again!!

NCS has been doing this for years. It's ridiculous, no alum has agreed to have their test scores and GPA shared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter though?

+1

We may be at the same school. Nobody is gossipy or rude. They are a supportive bunch. My kids immediately let their friends know when they get a rejection and don’t seem emotional or invested. It is what it is. If they have a friend really gunning somewhere and they don’t get in, they support them.

NO, not everyone is supportive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The access to SCOIR or Naviance should be banned from parents and students. Thye should have no right to know other students' stats, identifiable or not. At our school, there are some tiger parents complaining about UMR got into this or that with a lower stats. College admissions is never only about stats!

Are you a private school parent? How on Earth would this data be helpful to public school parents without direct access? We have one meeting in four years with the counselor.

Usually it’s not much of a problem at public schools. They have thousands applied to a same school.

[Anonymous]

Are you worried people will find out your kid didn’t get into a school ED? I’m not sure why this matters much. People don’t always get into their top choice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter though?

+1

We all knew everyone's stats back in HS. Not sure why it's a taboo subject here.

[Anonymous]

Just bring back ranks, all this mystery around gpa and privacy is not needed.

[Anonymous]

Its not a big deal. At our private, the kids often figure out which stats went to which students when looking at the data. Some kids dont share at all, but most kids know where peers/friends are applying, they know results, deferrals, rejections, etc. Not in a competitive/negative way, more just general info since college admission is such a big focus during senior year. Kids are generally supportive. Given what kids choose to post/view on social media these days, this is the least of my worries. Instagram college decision pages are also voluntary and kids don't have to share.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, our school shows "no data" when the pool is so small it would be identifying. Sometimes I have to set the parameters for multiple years so there's enough data for me to see the scattergram, even though I only find last year's data (maybe last 2 years) to be useful. We all know things have changed dramatically from even a couple of years ago.

That said, I have kids who are 20205 and 2026 grads. So when I search now for the class of 2025, I can still sometimes guess who certain kids are. If I know a kid EDed and is a particular major, the major is usually the identifier. But you have to really obsess (which I guess we all do).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, our school shows "no data" when the pool is so small it would be identifying. Sometimes I have to set the parameters for multiple years so there's enough data for me to see the scattergram, even though I only find last year's data (maybe last 2 years) to be useful. We all know things have changed dramatically from even a couple of years ago.

That said, I have kids who are 20205 and 2026 grads. So when I search now for the class of 2025, I can still sometimes guess who certain kids are. If I know a kid EDed and is a particular major, the major is usually the identifier. But you have to really obsess (which I guess we all do).

I was going to say the same thing. Our school would show no data when the pool was so small - you would have to expand to several years to potentially see any data. I know they also changed the setting for one school after someone brought it to their attention that they could identify the students - it was for a school that typically didn’t get more than 2-3 students applying each year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

OP here - the bummer is that DC applied ED and was the only student who applied to X school this year. So, it's not that they were sharing their "business" -- it's just going to be obvious once the school lists acceptances...and we all know ED is binding.

Don't share ED acceptance. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should let this go -or- be PO'd and alert other parents. I've let college counseling know and they're "looking into it."

On DC's school SCOIR it has "Fall 2026" listed under "Application Type" - so if you know a student applied to X school, it's easy to ID the student. This class year identifier is not listed for any previous years, just if they applied RD, ED, EA, etc.

For example, only one student applied ED to Wesleyan, and on SCOIR, they're easily ID'd as:
Early Decision - Fall 2026 Denied 3.95

Our school's SCOIR not only lists whether they were accepted or denied with the "Fall 2026" identifier, but also includes GPA and test scores (if they submitted).

My DS’s school does this. Why does this piss you off? I find it very helpful since things change so quickly in college admissions. You can also separate out by year if you have enough applicants that year, which is essentially the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thanks for responses. I'll chill. I should just be grateful DC got into their top choice and I'll never need to be on SCOIR again!!

NCS has been doing this for years. It's ridiculous, no alum has agreed to have their test scores and GPA shared.

NCS removes hooked admits (mainly athletic and connected/legacy) from SCOIR, so the girls are not identifiable. Or at least they did in 2023 when we used it.