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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Publish the high school profile to parents.[b] Provide the past years' matriculation lists[/b] (even if it's anonymous if privacy is really the concern). Make Naviance accessible to families outside the CCO. These are pieces of information that a school could provide in order to help families develop reasonable expectations. Sidwell does not do any of them.[/quote]

I agree[/quote]

But frankly, this information is totally irrelevant to the majority of the high school students.  For example, so far this year XX Big3 school is sending 4 kids to Harvard.  Three of these 4 are URM, one is not but is a double legacy. 
The fact that XX school is sending any number of kids to Harvard IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO MY KID who has none of those hooks.  [/quote]

It's not all about Harvard. Just making up examples, but if your 3.5 student sees that their not-top-tier dream school has never accepted a Sidwell student with less than a 3.8 ever, that is useful information. If they see that School X has never accepted a Sidwell student in spite of strong applications, they may second-guess ED to that school. There are all kinds of patterns you find in Naviance as a helpful (but not solid guarantee) guide. You can sometimes tell which schools yield protect your students (pattern show lower stats kids accepted and high stats kids rejected), you can tell which schools love your students (very high rate of school-specific acceptance over time), etc. Yes, there is a lot you can't tell, but it is a useful tool if you get to really explore it. It helps you create the list and questions for the CCO to put color on those patterns.

Of course, if you personally don't think Naviance is useful, then you don't have to look at it. Others will use it.[/quote]

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