Naviance

[Anonymous]

Can someone please explain how Naviance works? What does the school do and what does the applicant do?

[Anonymous]

Naviance is a computer program that's used by a large number of public and private high schools throughout the country. Basically, each school's counseling dept posts its record of applications, acceptances, wait lists and rejections to the various colleges that high school's students apply to, along with relevant data about the average SAT/ACT scores and GPAs of these various groups.

A student gets an account through his high school guidance counselor, goes online and can see at a glance how he stacks up compared to prior applicants from his high school applying to the same colleges he's interested in. There is also a lot of general information about the colleges, their application requirements. There's also a section called "About Me" that is geared toward helping the student determine their various aptitudes and interests and how these might fit with their college choices.

Parents can also use Naviance. Usually there's a parent or guest password that enables the log on. I think you get this from your high school.

[Anonymous]

Not all schools allow students and parents access to Naviance; check with your college counselor.

[Anonymous]

You should get the information about using this from your college counselors at the school. You need a username/password to gain access. As stated above it will give a list (no names given) about the prior graduates' acceptances and enrollments at colleges/universities. It will also have your kids' scores included in order to see where they are in terms of a particular school's requirements.

If you haven't gotten this information then either you're child is too young (most schools do not give access to the site until the 10th or 11th grade year) or your school doesn't use Naviance. You need to check with your school's counselors.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Some schools don't give students and parents access to naviance, though they use it. That would seriously annoy me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools don't give students and parents access to naviance, though they use it. That would seriously annoy me.

What possibly could be the rationale for this policy?SMH...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools don't give students and parents access to naviance, though they use it. That would seriously annoy me.

Agreed. That's tantamount to college counseling malpractice. The information on Naviance is invaluable for determining your realistic chances at getting into any school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some schools don't give students and parents access to naviance, though they use it. That would seriously annoy me.

Agreed. That's tantamount to college counseling malpractice. The information on Naviance is invaluable for determining your realistic chances at getting into any school.

I think some private schools don't provide access to families on the grounds that the classes are so small you'd be able to identify individual kids. Naviance shows something like 3 or 5 years of data. So if 2 kids from the school got into Yale over the past five years, Naviance will show their SATs and GPAs as two dots on the graph, along with a bunch of X's for the kids who were rejected and some other symbol for kids who were waitlisted. And then everybody will know that one of the two kids was an NMSSF, and if Joey was the other kid who got into Yale, then he must be the dot at SATs=2000 and GPA=3.5. And now that everybody in the school knows Joey's stats, the ugly complaints and rumors about Joey will start about how Joey only got in because he's a legacy or a dumb jock.

That said, I don't understand why some of the larger top DC schools don't provide access. Their classes are often 75-100 kids and typically many kids get into the top colleges, so kids' identities would be safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some schools don't give students and parents access to naviance, though they use it. That would seriously annoy me.

Agreed. That's tantamount to college counseling malpractice. The information on Naviance is invaluable for determining your realistic chances at getting into any school.

I think some private schools don't provide access to families on the grounds that the classes are so small you'd be able to identify individual kids. Naviance shows something like 3 or 5 years of data. So if 2 kids from the school got into Yale over the past five years, Naviance will show their SATs and GPAs as two dots on the graph, along with a bunch of X's for the kids who were rejected and some other symbol for kids who were waitlisted. And then everybody will know that one of the two kids was an NMSSF, and if Joey was the other kid who got into Yale, then he must be the dot at SATs=2000 and GPA=3.5. And now that everybody in the school knows Joey's stats, the ugly complaints and rumors about Joey will start about how Joey only got in because he's a legacy or a dumb jock.

That said, I don't understand why some of the larger top DC schools don't provide access. Their classes are often 75-100 kids and typically many kids get into the top colleges, so kids' identities would be safe.

I've had kids at two different privates. One blocked results when the college had below a certain number of applicants because they would be identifiable, the other didn't. Either way is fine with me because most of the schools are accessible. I believe it is Sidwell that doesn't allow access to naviance.

[Anonymous]

If i were at Sidwell I'd be annoyed to be unable to access Naviance.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

Right. Naviance only shows acceptance data based on GPA and standardized tests. Sex, ethnicity,geographics, prospective major, athletics, unusual life experience or talents are not shown but can play a powerful role in admission decisions. Also, small sample sizes should not be relied upon.

[Anonymous]

Does STA allow access to naviance?