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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In fact, I know too much.  It's not true that a kid can't apply to a college at Wilson, or anywhere else, without having gone through Naviance.  Applicants can, and occasionally do, collect general letters of recommendation, guidance counselor recommendations and sealed transcripts and send them on their own unbeknownst to the school.  Keeping applications under wraps is far more common in private school settings, and abroad, but it can happen at Wilson.  There is no rule that families have to advertise where students are applying via Naviance.  A few Wilson families of top students rebel at essentially making their application choices public.  Others start applications but never complete or submit them, although Naviance data reports that they did.  Finally, admissions decisions can be kept private by families.  With many programs, only the applicant is informed of the school's decision, not the school.  A student may or may not report an admissions result via Naviance.  Privacy matters.[/quote]

The claim that I was responding to was that APPLICATION data is inaccurate,

My 2020 Wilson grad kid absolutely could not get transcripts and recommendations without going through Naviance.  It was very difficult to get counselors to submit information only slightly late (for get on time, didn't happen) when going through the official process. I can't imagine trying to get them to follow a nonstandard process.

Do you have any evidence whatsoever that kids are successful in getting extremely overworked, disorganized counseling center staff to circumvent their own process?    [/quote]

What we did at Wilson was order a transcript for self pick-up the minute new grades were in at various junctures during senior year.  We sent transcripts with the most recent grades to Parchment and they forwarded it to colleges for a modest fee.  None of the 10 colleges our kid applied to rejected the Parchment sent transcript.  Transcript forwarding service have become popular in an age when many public school guidance counselors have hundreds of kids to advise.  We didn't trust Wilson to send our kids' transcripts to colleges on time, or anything else for that matter.  We also collected our own recommendations and counselor's report.  Much better to deal with Parchment and those writing recommendations directly than to deal with Wilson's counselors.   Pick your poison. [/quote]

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