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I'm an independent high school counselor (with Ivy degrees) who can't stand Naviance.  MOCO has long used the software as justification to cut college counselor positions.  Wilson started using it after years of parents complaining bitterly that upperclassmen were getting less and less face time with (dramatically overworked) counselors.  This increasingly popular software program has a grim way of reducing kids to graded, GPAs and scores, leading a great many to sell themselves short in applying to colleges.  Families of the brightest college bound kids often don't understand that elite colleges value intangibles like intellectual curiosity, passion, motivation, drive, talent, strong executive function skills, creativity etc. over grades and rank in class.  I encourage my clients to take the data Naviance spits out with a grain of salt (or a bag of salt in many cases). High schools commonly manipulate Naviance data on where kids apply and are accepted or rejected, because self reporting is the rule (colleges and private schools seldom use Naviance, and for good reason).  I've seen kids Naviance effectively advised not to apply to Ivies get into multiple Ivies.

PS. Few Wilson kids get into Ivies, few who get into Ivies chose not to attend, and[b] many false application narratives are in the mix.   [/b]

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