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[quote=Anonymous][quote]A 3rd Sidwell senior parent here. Our family booked multiple meetings throughout last fall for the express purpose to look at scattergrams together with counselor. I attended 2 with student via Zoom. Student went to at least one in person in counselor's office.

In the 2 zoom meetings I attended with student, my recollection was that we saw maybe 6? at a time. Each meeting was no less than 15 minutes and no more than 30 minutes. It was 5 months ago so I don't recall the exact number of minutes.

Our family scheduled these meetings in intervals separated by several weeks, on purpose, rather than back to back to back. We put a lot of thought into which schools to pull up on Naviance after we discussed and refined our plan. I, personally, don't understand people who find this approach punishing. Idiosyncratic, maybe, but not nearly as limiting and crippling as you make it out to be.

Why would you find it useful to look at 50 schools at one sitting (aka, "full access"), and why don't you have a better idea of what you actually want? It would be fun, sure, to look at all 50 state flagships or something with unfettered access but if you're being honest, that doesn't actually help your kid. [/quote]

My kid is also at a Big3 that does not provide unfettered access to Naviance.  I have older kids who did have that access.  There is no question that I prefer easy access in this regard.  Neither I nor my kid wants to be chaperoned while reviewing the data, and it definitely limits conversation between us to have to do it with the counselor.  I also want to be able to take my time reviewing the scattergrams, and want the ability to switch back and forth between screens as often as I want while I process.  Doing this at home on the weekend while my kid is more focused and less tired is also a plus.  My older kids applied to fewer than 10 schools each, but we probably looked at 25 different scattergrams to compose their lists.  There is no question in my mind that the usefulness of Naviance is marginalized by the "make an appointment" approach, whether those appointments are easy to schedule or not.  The gatekeeping is annoying and unnecessary.
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