‘24 parents…was Naviance accurate?

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Anonymous wrote:What about those that did not include test scores? GPA high but test score just ok.

My DD applied test optional. Naviance not very helpful for this scenario, College Vine much more so, will advise whether to apply with or without scores for a given school. Naviance recently added a check box for the scattergram to see only test optional results, but it wasn't pulling up any results from our school even at the large popular public universities. Needs more time to get enough data I guess.

Agree. Naviance not helpful at all for TO

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Ours was pretty spot on in that is showed what colleges really liked kids from DS's high school (jesuit schools) and what schools were not worth even considering -- for example UT-Austin hates his high school (statistically speaking).
What was very hard to guess was DS's gpa - which was fine at the end of JR year but significantly higher at graduation (because all AP courses senior year)

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SCOIR was for my son.

What you need to know is that schools that have ED1/ED2 know if you apply RD that you are their 3rd choice at best---especially if you are very high stat. They will likely outright reject you or waitlist you for that reason. So you might get into say, Williams or Brown or Harvard but then get rejected at Tufts or Hopkins and waitlisted at Villanova.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about those that did not include test scores? GPA high but test score just ok.

My DD applied test optional. Naviance not very helpful for this scenario, College Vine much more so, will advise whether to apply with or without scores for a given school. Naviance recently added a check box for the scattergram to see only test optional results, but it wasn't pulling up any results from our school even at the large popular public universities. Needs more time to get enough data I guess.

Yes, the career center teacher said they are working on creating that data and she hopes it will be up in the fall, but it’s hard to tell in the TO world.

[Anonymous]

Sort of?

In two instances, no, but there were individual reasons for that difference in outcome.

[Anonymous]

S applied with SAT scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours was pretty spot on in that is showed what colleges really liked kids from DS's high school (jesuit schools) and what schools were not worth even considering -- for example UT-Austin hates his high school (statistically speaking).
What was very hard to guess was DS's gpa - which was fine at the end of JR year but significantly higher at graduation (because all AP courses senior year)

Interesting. So seems it is worth spending time figuring out which colleges your high school does well at. Our school can’t seem to get a kid into UGA for example but sends 5-7 kids a year to Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours was pretty spot on in that is showed what colleges really liked kids from DS's high school (jesuit schools) and what schools were not worth even considering -- for example UT-Austin hates his high school (statistically speaking).
What was very hard to guess was DS's gpa - which was fine at the end of JR year but significantly higher at graduation (because all AP courses senior year)

Interesting. So seems it is worth spending time figuring out which colleges your high school does well at. Our school can’t seem to get a kid into UGA for example but sends 5-7 kids a year to Michigan.

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Historical high school placement matters

[Anonymous]

SCOIR and not accurate. Rejected at 3 solid targets. Luckily in at one reach.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Said Georgia Tech was a safety. Not that we were counting on that acceptance, luckily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. My kid was well above and to the right of his ED1 pick (Villanova) plus his application was strong in a lot of other ways, but was rejected. The only kids accepted there (public HS) this year were legacy.

He aimed much lower ED2 and got in.

The only other schools he heard from were likelies and got into all.

My kid was also well above the scattergram for Villanova and got waitlisted. Private in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was pretty accurate. But I liked CollegeVine more… it had chancing information for smaller schools that had no scattergram in Naviance.

But how would they know for the smaller schools when so much is about essays and special ways the kid meets their institution priorities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We only had 2023 data, but ours was 100% accurate. My kid only got rejected from the schools where her stats were in a sea of red x's.

why did you apply to those? Genuinely asking if you thought she fit is a unique way or just trying anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was pretty accurate. But I liked CollegeVine more… it had chancing information for smaller schools that had no scattergram in Naviance.

But how would they know for the smaller schools when so much is about essays and special ways the kid meets their institution priorities?

Those things matter less than you think - esp if not URM/legacy/donor/athlete…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was pretty accurate. But I liked CollegeVine more… it had chancing information for smaller schools that had no scattergram in Naviance.

But how would they know for the smaller schools when so much is about essays and special ways the kid meets their institution priorities?

You have to meet the threshold before they even read the app.
Threshold is:
1. Gpa
2. Scores if any
3. Rigor

Then the app is read if it meets the above.