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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does Sidwell justify the lack of open access to Naviance? That’s so incredibly paternalistic. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a parent revolt. [/quote]
No Naviance access: classic Sidwell abuse. Sidwell senior parent here. Been the same thing for years. No parent will dare complain. Myself included.[/quote]
Not a Sidwell parent here, and Imma not gonna lie some of you do come across as both tone-deaf and entitled.  But speaking as a parent who has now gone through two college admission cycles for two very different kids (one of whom went through DCPS -- and no, my kid was not less equipped for their Ivy than your Sidwell student -- and one of whom is finishing up at a different and smaller private high school in DC and just getting results back now), I can't overstate how helpful Naviance ways in trying to build a list of options.  The idea that I wouldn't have been able to look at it except in scheduled meetings with counselors seems nutty to me.

I guess I'm glad we couldn't afford Sidwell.[/quote]
I made the original comment re Naviance and I completely agree—it was hugely helpful for our older kids’ college searches.  Our kids’ high school provided 3 years worth of data (each HS selects the filters they want to use) and several of the patterns were really illuminating.  People sometimes claim that Naviance is unhelpful because it doesn’t show info about hooks, but that always seems strange to me. Even at our large public I knew which of the kids getting into top schools were URMs or recruited athletes and for some I knew their legacy status. It was easy to tell there were plenty of unhooked kids among the green dots, and we focused on schools with a lot of them in our kids’ stat range.  My oldest applied to 10 schools, and I correctly predicted all 10 decisions mostly based on the Naviance data.

I understand that the data is more useful the larger your school is, and I understand the fear of retaliation, but it’s just so unfair to handicap families like this. I think a lot of the complaints I’ve read here seem completely legit, and I’m sympathetic to the parents. [/quote]

What do you mean by "fear of retaliation"?[/quote]

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