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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is explaining why information would be helpful to them, and in response you are saying “actually, pp, you are wrong, that information would not be helpful to you.” How can you know that? Who are you to say what would, or wouldn’t, be helpful to them? Maybe the info wouldn’t be helpful for you, but you’re not the pp. Or others who have the same perspective as pp.[/quote]

Because objectively speaking, where people from one class went has zero bearing on following years. There are way too many variables to simply suggest that because Larlo went to school X and Larla went to school Y that there is any correlation whatsoever to a future applicant. It borders on completely meaningless.[/quote]

Yep. That’s why no one uses Naviance. Totally useless. Data are silly, just use anecdotes or, better yet, the Force.[/quote]

Naviance is basically a more detailed versions of the aggregate list.

If you had Naviance for just the class of 2021, there would not be enough data for the scattergrams to be usefuly. Get it?[/quote]

You’re the only one suggesting that the list would be for a single year.  Others are saying Sidwell should produce a list every year.  Stop erecting strawmen arguments.  Get it?[/quote]

The aggregate list combined with Naviance is sufficient for what you claim to want or need. [/quote]

I don’t have a dog in this anymore (my kids have graduated), but your dogged defense of Sidwell’s position is curious.  For reasons of its own, Sidwell doesn’t produce such lists.  As you probably know, Sidwell doesn’t even allow you to keep or record the Naviance data (you can only view it on screen with the admissions staff).  No one but Sidwell needs to defend its decisions; and it doesn’t seem to be hurting Sidwell at all in the market for students.  So be it.  Still, you choose to make post after post saying that this decision is not only defensible, but correct, based on the view that more data is meaningless and even harmful. That position seems untenable.

For example, suppose you had matriculation lists for, say, the past 5 years.  You could test the assumption that Sidwell seems to place well with Harvard, Yale and Penn, but not so well with Princeton and Brown.  Correlation is not causation and exceptions abound, but it is relevant data to see whether some schools consistently admit a relatively large number of Sidwell grads each year.  [/quote]

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