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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What major is she looking at currently?

Your school’s Naviance is a great resource.

Search schools’s Common data sets. This helps with categorizing between reaches, matches, and safeties.

For every possible college, I also look at the “outcomes” page which lists where graduates go after graduating.

My DC is going for sciences/engineering. So we’ve used asse.org for admitted class profiles for engineering programs.

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Thank you!
Unsure as to her major--but probably along the lines of economics/political science rather than sciences or humanities. Maybe international relations or public policy? Business?  Something with a reading/analytic focus but she's also good at math (just not that interested in focusing on it exclusively).

Naviance has been great for assessing the schools she finds, but I'm unsure how to use it best to generate ideas  And so far we can find a Common Data Set for a school once she know she's interested, but I haven't found a Common Data Set Database to search. Am I missing something?

Cool idea to use a field-based site like asse.org -- that would be great if she were focused enough on a particular area.[/quote]

On Naviance, under the Colleges tab, click on "[b]college match[/b]". Then keep scrolling down the page until you get to a table titled "Colleges that have Accepted Students like you". Those are colleges that have accepted students from DD's high school with similar GPA/test scores. In the upper right you can click on "adjust matches" and then adjust the range of GPAs and test scores to either limit or broaden the colleges listed. Thats one place to start.

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Not OP but thank you for this information.  Do you know if the info provided in college match is only from those narrowed to students with similar stats as your dc?  For example, if they are showing 50% acceptance rate for a particular school, is this 50% of kids accepted from all kids from your dc's HS that applied to this college or 50% acceptance rate from those with similar stats as your dc from his HS?[/quote]

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