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[quote=Anonymous]I currently have a senior so have been looking at it a lot, but obviously don’t know yet how DC’s results will compare to the scattergram. From looking at them though, and the schools DC is applying to, I would say it depends. Some large state schools have seas of red or green based on stats. I’m assuming it’s fairly accurate if you fall into one of those. Other, more competitive, state schools and competitive privates are a lot of red with green scattered. I think this is the difficult part. You can see stats of people who got in, but you don’t know anything about them. Not just if they are an athlete, legacy, URM, male, female, etc. But also what school within the university they applied to. Some schools my kid is looking at have vastly different acceptance rates based on if it’s the school of engineering, computer science, arts and sciences, drama, etc.  Take Cornell for example, the school of agriculture and school of hotel management are 20-25% acceptance rates whereas engineering is about 5%, maybe less. Or a school like Carnegie Mellon that has a top drama program and is very hard to get into, but acceptance is based on auditions and portfolio reviews rather than grades.  A lot of schools have these disparities and it makes it hard to know true odds based on Naviance. [/quote]

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