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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may be a dumb question but how do you know what the admissions rate is for someone with similar stats?  A school might have a 20% admission rate but maybe it’s a 40% admission rate for kids with over a 3,9?  Does this exist?  I’ve seen the naviance scattergram but it looks like it’s limited to just your HS applicants, which doesn’t seem like a great dataset.[/quote]

I’m not sure about admission but you can see the % of enrolled students by looking at the Common Data Set section C. FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR (FRESHMAN) ADMISSION.  The only thing is when you see the info for students from all schools, you miss seeing the school profile that goes along with the information when they are applying.  A 3.8 UW with no honors/AP is not the same as a 3.8 UW with lots of APs which might be comparable to a 3.8 UW with limited APs if that was all that was offered at the school.  The school profile might also show what percentage of the kids were in that various GPA ranges at the high school. In theory Naviance is supposed to be helpful because you are seeing students with the same school profile as your kid.   [/quote]

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