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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the utility on Naviance is the ability to noodle around and see ranges. Yes, you will check your kid’s dream school, but you may also want to check a school your kid is unlikely to apply to but is a solid safety. It also gives you a sense of which colleges are popular among applicants from your school,  and which colleges seem to view your school’s graduates favorably (e.g., some schools do very well with Chicago, but terrible with Brown, others are the opposite). Many people (myself included) don’t have a defined list of schools they definitely want to see, and the notion of making an appointment to be shown data was never appealing to me because I knew that after the fact I would realize I had forgotten to ask about a relevant school and then would be reluctant to make a second appointment. That said, my DC always felt comfortable going in and asking to see the data. Also, I had a pretty demanding job and it was just burdensome. I don’t agree with the policy of not giving parents this information. FWIW, NCS offers this data and its graduating classes are half the size of some of the area privates that do not grant independent access to this data.  [/quote]

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Nothing constructive to add but much of the utility of Naviance is noodling around junior year to better understand some of the colleges that view Sidwell favorably as well as those that don't take many kids from there. The preliminary noodling helps your child develop a list and not get too attached to a school.  Once they've narrowed their choices to come up with a semi-finalized list only to realize that the Naviance data is NOT favorable for Sidwell, they've already wasted a lot of time.  Counselor schedules get booked up so its not so easy to make appointments to check Naviance again. A kid (and parents) may have to wait a couple of weeks to get their next viewing of Naviance.

One example for us was Pepperdine. DD had it as a safety because the Common Data Set showed a relatively low SAT/ACT score for accepted students.  However, once we saw Naviance it was clear that from Sidwell kids needed at least a 3.4 - 3.5  and I think it was a 32 GPA (well above what the CDS had) tog et in.  Had we known this junior year, we would not have put this down as a safety. Pepperdine may be a safety for some other schools but from Sidwell they were definitely cherry picking for acceptances (not sure if anyone actually has attended the last 5 years). [/quote]

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