Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, Naviance is a great tool for showing your school's record at a college you're interested in. The school posts applications, acceptances, waitlists and rejections. There will be graphs for many different colleges.
If you put in U Michigan, for example, up pops a graph with SAT scores on one axis and GPAs on the other axis, and a whole lot of Xs and Os for kids who were rejected and got in. In our school's version of Naviance, your kid's SATs and GPA also show up on the graph (the counselors must have entered these). So you can actually see where your kid is amidst the cloud of Xs and Os.
What Naviance will not tell you is how athletic recruits or legacy status affected the outcome. If you see an acceptance with really low GPA and SATs, you should probably assume that something else was going on, or that kid was very lucky, instead of assuming that if that kid could get in, yours could get in too.
This is very true. There are often outliers and you can assume that the applicant was an athlete or legacy or has some kind of unusual, exceptional talent. beyond teh graph, you can also see how many students applied and were admitted and then how many enrolled per year (at least we can for DC's school) which is really helpful to see a trend.
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