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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is self reported data so…[/quote]

This data was supplied by the Montgomery County Public Schools Office of Shared Accountability and high school counselors, based on self-reported information.

Better than noting and most sources since this is from counselors and a data office.[/quote]

Yes, but if you know an individual school, you can spot certain errors. The results are based on surveys of the graduating seniors through Naviance, and some mistakes are inevitable. For example, my student applied to Pitt through Pitt's own app and did not require the school to do anything, and therefore that application and acceptance to Pitt was not recorded.[/quote]

Students usually go into Naviance at the end of the school year in one of their classes to update Naviance.  The "applying to" data is not accurate because students who just have the school on their "I plan to apply" are counted as applying.  So you need to track the historical data on Naviance, not from the current school year.  Current year won't be accurate until students update it at the end with the results. There were schools on my son's "I plan to apply to" list that he didn't end up applying to at all.  This has been discussed ad nauseum on other threads.  But if a student doesn't come back and update then the student is not counted in the results scattergram.[/quote]

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