When did your child's HS give them/you access to Naivance?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand Naviance even after spending some time with it. What do people do with it? The costs are outdated and so are the deadlines/dates.

For a most selective college, the scattergrams are so crowded in the upper right quadrant with multiple symbols - even if you deselect all but the acceptances - what does it tell you? The data says "from 2020" so I assume it is from the class prior?

There is also a link to similar colleges, where thea list of 10 colleges with the last 10 years of data on acceptances (I assume specific to your HS) is shown - I find that more valuable than the scattergrams.

We use them for the scattergrams and for the # applied/# accepted each year.

If you are looking at a highly selective college with a crowded upper right quadrant, and they're a variety of denials, acceptances, maybe some waitlists, that alone tells you something, that the college is a reach.

Also note where your student's little blue person is in relation to the result points, are they surrounded by green, or red, or a mix.

One issue is that all bets are off with test optional. I don't even know how that would be depicted in a scattergram, but this year is crazy enough so far that being surrounded by green checks in the scattergram doesn't mean the student will get in, as they may be bumped by students with good grades but who did not submit scores. In other words, just plain lower chances.

+2 At multiple schools, my DC is in a sea of green dots without a single WL or rejection anywhere nearby. Guess what? These schools gave my DC 5 deferrals and one rejection this year.

Did your DC apply test optional? My kid submitted scores and has been accepted at all of her schools so far, and has been very much inline with what Naviance had shown.

Yes, DC submitted scores. Scores were good.

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Are your kids required to use it? DS is a senior who has had access since sophomore year. He's applied to colleges but has never even logged on.

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Anonymous wrote:Are your kids required to use it? DS is a senior who has had access since sophomore year. He's applied to colleges but has never even logged on.

Many high schools use Naviance for handling some logistics of the college app process such as submitting transcripts to colleges. In those cases, kids are expected to keep their college list updated, at a minimum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are your kids required to use it? DS is a senior who has had access since sophomore year. He's applied to colleges but has never even logged on.

Many high schools use Naviance for handling some logistics of the college app process such as submitting transcripts to colleges. In those cases, kids are expected to keep their college list updated, at a minimum.

Given that he is a senior who had access and never used it, I imagine at your school it is not needed. Our school uses the Common App and Naviance together for recommendations and other things so it was required that the kids log in and use the system. They are also required to update their acceptances etc.

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We are in FCPS and have access now. Since beginning of 9th grade.

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Early on, sorry I don’t remember the exact year. But the Counselling Dept had kids use it at first for thinking about vocational planning, resume writing, something like that. Their introduction to naviance was not about identifying colleges early on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are your kids required to use it? DS is a senior who has had access since sophomore year. He's applied to colleges but has never even logged on.

Many high schools use Naviance for handling some logistics of the college app process such as submitting transcripts to colleges. In those cases, kids are expected to keep their college list updated, at a minimum.

Given that he is a senior who had access and never used it, I imagine at your school it is not needed. Our school uses the Common App and Naviance together for recommendations and other things so it was required that the kids log in and use the system. They are also required to update their acceptances etc.

This was the case at our MCPS high school. Also, DS filled out the resume section to give counselor and teachers a more complete picture of DS.

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We have access to Naviance but not the scattergrams.

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Anonymous wrote:We have access to Naviance but not the

Anonymous wrote:We have access to Naviance but not the scattergrams.

Same for MCPS has access since 9th grade for checking GPA not college related
Not sure about the scattergrams, if it is even available, sophomore DC never heard of it

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Anonymous wrote:My kids had an account they could access starting in 9th grade but I don't think they really dug into it until 11th.

+1. In MCPS.

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I have a sophomore in FCPS. He's actually had access to parts of Naviance since 6th grade. He was in a leadership program in elementary school and was given access to it then. It did not include the scattergrams - and I know because his older brother was in 11th grade (in FCPS) at the time and had access to that part of Naviance.

I also have a senior in a private high school. He didn't get access to Naviance until his Junior year.

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious when students and parents began using Naviance?

When they entered high school.

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I think junior year for our DC’s school. It’s a small school so for some colleges, the data wasn’t very helpful. But super interesting to see the scatter plots.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids had an account they could access starting in 9th grade but I don't think they really dug into it until 11th.

+1. In MCPS.

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Our MCPS middle school introduced us to Naviance in 6th or 7th grade, just to familiarize us. However, it started becoming useful only when we were in 9th grade and could compare with the school stats (using PSAT in place of SAT). 11th was when it started being very useful.

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Should we target schools that take a lot of students from our school or target schools that have not taken students from our school?