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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Some public school students and parents don't want their "college lists" and admissions outcomes made public[/b], even without their names associated with Naviance-generated admissions data a school releases. Independent schools have long advertised lists of colleges graduates attend, not acceptances and rejections.  Many public schools are following suit.  I advise clients they are under no legal obligation to make private admissions information public via a school's counseling office and Naviance subscription.

In the past, colleges almost always required a school guidance counselor's report to accompany an application. This is changing. Many colleges now permit applicants to bypass their assigned counselor, partly because the spread of home schooling and early college programs (public high school students taking college courses at the taxpayer's expense) is shaping application requirements and practices.  Public school counselors with hundreds of kids to advise aren't complaining that they need not be involved in every application submitted by the students they serve.  [/quote]

We aren't talking about some schools- we are talking about specifically about Wilson. So I'm not sure your advice has much relevance here. [/quote]

Exactly, specifically Wilson.  Some of the kids applying to Ivies from Wilson (several dozen per admissions season) do not complete applications to schools for which counselors have provided a letter of recommendation, or tell a Wilson counselor what the admissions result was for a completed application. Counselors learn admissions results from students and parents, not from the colleges themselves, and counselors enter data into Naviance. [b]You can get a read on admissions trends at a school from the data, not more[/b]. [/quote]

That's all that parents want to get. So I don't get the advice to take it with a grain of salt - for some of us this data is more than we used to get - which was absolutely nothing. So then to my earlier point - all of the stuff that is in Bethesda Magazine listing the applications and acceptances for every college for every high schools should be suspect then because my guess is all of that data comes from Naviance and is student/family reported as well. Or does MOCO have some special corner on the market for clean data?

Sorry I'm being pissy about this but I hate when so-called experts tell parents to ignore this or that OR do this or that. Wilson parents can access the Naviance data themselves and decide for themselves how they choose to use it. The End.

PS.  For others outside of the Wilson community wanting to see those stats - befriend a Wilson parent and maybe they will share.[/quote]

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