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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been following this (as a public school parent).  I have so many thoughts but will limit them to a few that will be (hopefully) viewed as constructive:

1) I have full access to Naviance and it is not very helpful--if anything, it is quite misleading as the scattergrams combine 10 years of data (we all know how the admissions world has changed over 10 years) and it does not indicate hooks.  As a result, it is incredibly easy for students (and parents) to think the odds are much greater to get into specific colleges than it actually is.

2) The basic patterns play out in schools all over this area as they do in "the Big 3" (side note, barf) with regards to college admissions--it is an incredibly unpredictable and stressful process for these kids.  However, there is a HUGE difference between kids at schools like Sidwell and those at large public schools: expectations.  For all of the short-comings of our large public--and there are a lot--I think my (high stats, NMSF) DC really benefits from being at a public school because they see other high stats students who can't apply ED because they need merit money or because  public universities are the only viable option.  This REALLY helps contextualize the whole process and give the much-needed perspective that there are outstanding students so many colleges, not just the "top 50".[/quote]

I would say that some information is better than none, which is effectively what parents at Sidwell get. And while of course the scattergrams don't indicate hooks, the rejection dots alone can give you a sense of the landscape when you see how many high grade/high test kids with dots up in the top right corner get rejected at a particular school that you might have thought was a target or even a sure thing. And in looking at Sidwell's scattergrams in the CCO office you would see that they cover 4 years and not 10.[/quote]

Parents and students have access to the scattergrams under the supervision of the CCO. [b]A student can look at any school at any time, that is not "none"[/b] - similarly, there is a whole host of alumni who are current students at great colleges all over the country who are more than happy to talk to your kid about their college and what they hear from friends and classmates about other colleges. Let's not make the false assertion that SFS students and families have nothing at their disposal to help inform the creation of a college application list or a matriculation choice down the road.[/quote]

That was not our experience this year, at all. The counselor rejected our/DC's requests to look at them until the process was very far along.[/quote]

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