Does this website/app exist?
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Anonymous
| New to college search. Is there a website or app where you can plug in stats like GPA and SATs and get a list of colleges your child can apply to? I've seen mention of Naviance but I don't think we will have access to it until next year. Thanks! |
Anonymous
| Are you from outside the US? In the US, it's not just a simple GPA+SAT and you're in or not. Many factors like race, family history, alumni status, sports skills, major of study, etc etc are taken into account, so there's really no hard cut-off for either of those scores. |
Anonymous
| No, I am not from outside the U.S. Why do you ask? There are thousands of colleges and universities in the U.S. Instead of looking all of them up, there has to be a way to focus in on schools your kid is competitive for based on their stats. |
Anonymous
| The best site that I can recommend is Naviance. Talk to your counselor. In MCPS, students have access to Naviance starting in 9th grade. The feature that you want in Naviance is called "Supermatch." You plug in GPA, SAT/ACT, and desired characteristics such as area of country, etc. Be wary, sometimes the SAT statistics in Naviance are a couple of years old, but it's still a decent place to start. |
Anonymous
+1 The GPA at your school might not be the same as the GPAs at others. Strength of schedule is also a really important factor. |
Anonymous
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PP's are right that Naviance is a great tool to see how students from yoru kid's high school with different stats fared in admissions. You will need it along the way.
But for help in developing a broad target list to start with: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/ https://www.princetonreview.com/college-search I'm also a big fan of giving your kid an old school Princeton Review book and letting them read it for ideas. |
Anonymous
| Niche.com has search tools that are similar to what you describe. They also have a lot of useful reviews -- often hundreds for a school. Like Amazon or anything else, there will be booster reviews and malcontents who would likely be unhappy at any school, but by reading through a lot of reviews you can start to get an impression of schools. |
Anonymous
Or you could just wait until “next year.” Let your kids be kids. |
Anonymous
| I’m loving playing around with CollegeVine’s “chancing calculator”. Who knows if it’s accurate, but it helps narrow the search down a bit. |
Anonymous
| We had much more success with spending time helping our dd with figuring out what she wanted to study. Once she figured that out the college search was much more focused and easier to tackle. There are hundreds of schools she could have applied to based on her statistics but most of them do not have a strong program in her chosen field. Looking at those schools would have been a waste of time. |
Anonymous
| I found we have more luck using our magic 8 ball to ask about options. |
Anonymous
| Prepscholar has some kid of tool that tells % chance based on stats, but I wouldn’t take it seriously. Why don’t you have Naviance yet? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
His school doesn't give access to it until junior year. |
Anonymous
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One reason why I found Naviance useful: my DS was rejected EA from a college that hasn't accepted anyone from his high school in the last ten years. DS didn't think this mattered. I did.
Same DS accepted EA with a very selective merit scholarship from a college that took 3 students from his high school last year. Also a very competitive college. Lesson learned: colleges do develop relationships with high schools. |