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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does Naviance only use sample sizes from the school to whom it is licensed?

Finding out that 4 students from last year's graduating class got into XYZ State University might be interesting, but how much can you really learn from such a small sample size?

You can get freshman profile data directly from the schools themselves.

I do appreciate that people using Naviance are at least savvy-enough not to just go by the "acceptance rate," which paints an incomplete picture.[/quote]

It's always better with more data points of course. Our school has 450-500 in a grade and they use data for the last 3 or maybe 5 years so there are usually a decent number of data points for each school.

The benefit of naviance is that it shows each individual data point so you don't lose some of the nuances in the averages that are presented on the freshman profiles. And it is also specific to your schools grading approach, demographics, etc. We could look at it with weighted GPAs and regular GPAs so you could get a sense of the rigor of the courses of accepted applicants. We found that the Naviance stats for our school to be much more competitive than the freshman profile stats - in other words while it looked like my DC would be a very strong candidate based on freshman profile stats, that was not the case when looking at results for DCs school.
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