School exposed identifiable student stats on SCOIR

[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.

[Anonymous]

I thought the system refuses to disclose any info when there are too people to avoid this very thing? That was the case with SCOIR for us. I recall a message to the effect of "too few applicants" to provide the info.

[Anonymous]

Why do you care? Your child is presumably graduating. Why do you care if other students/families in younger grades can “identify” you? Or even your child’s own classmates?

You must attend a small private school where small things like this cause a stir. Learn to let things roll off your shoulders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter though?

I mean, Feds have their job and pay grade and amount online as public info...
Who cares!

[Anonymous]

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!

As a small, public school parent I never had any clue whose stats showed up in Naviance for prior years. If there were too few applicants (allowing someone to be identified), a message popped up explaining that. Having access to the datapoints was SO very helpful. Our school counselor is great but did not help our student create the potential colleges list. Naviance gave us the best chance to see just how prior students did coming from our school. Based on results, it was a great indicator for which schools were likelies and reaches, much better than the CDS numbers were. Another factor to consider is that students at our school get to opt in to reporting their results.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are way too invested in the college process. It takes a ton of sleuthing to figure out which stats match which classmate. Your fellow parents really don’t care that much about whose stats they are looking at! They just want the data. Also, give your fellow parents the benefit of the doubt. We are all cheering these kids on and want everyone to get into their top choices. I am not judging or making assumptions about any teen based on their GPA, test scores, admits, deferrals, rejections, etc. Honest!

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure why this is a big deal. The kids already all know who the top kids are and who the stragglers are and really don't care.

[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).

I thought every school has similar. Ours does. It is quite easy in a class of 80 to figure out exactly who everyone is and exactly how muc of a boost certain "institutional priorities" are.

[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).

You can always refuse to provide data to scoir. It’s not mandatory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Mine was at a large public but was the only kid in the last five years to get into the school he chose. His stats are visible, so he is identifiable to those who know where he went.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter though?

I mean, Feds have their job and pay grade and amount online as public info...
Who cares!

And it’s wrong too. lol. Mine has me making about $75k less than I actually make.