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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some schools don't give students and parents access to naviance, though they use it.  That would seriously annoy me.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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