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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a rising senior at another private where the kids have complete access to Naviance.  In our case, my DC has changed his perspective radically since beginning the process.  After seeing some schools he has realized he actually wants an entirely different geographic area, size and academic approach.  Now he may not be typical, but we think this is healthy that he has questioned his initial thoughts after actually seeing the schools.  If he was restricted to one list of 30 schools, that would almost certainly lock out schools he will end up applying to because of the shift.  So the Sidwell approach would absolutely not work in our case.

Plus, I have noticed a lot of paranoia by parents over the process -- what the counselors are and are not doing for them.  It seems to me that by keeping this data secret, and being the conduit for edited data, it only serves to pump up the suspicion.

Finally, while some posters are saying that the Sidwell approach is superior to publics, and I don't doubt that is true, most of in this section have kids at privates.  And Sidwell's approach is definitely unique among privates from everything I've read here.

By the way, they had a college night for 7th grade parents this year.  To me that is a sign of incredibly craziness.[/quote]

To clarify: Students are not restricted to the list of 30 schools; in fact, the list becomes irrelevant almost as soon as it is handed in -- that's the crazy part.

Oh, yeah, the other crazy party was the college night for 7th-grade parents.  This went on at the same time that they were telling 11th-graders and their parents to chill.      [/quote]

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