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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pitt, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Delaware, UMD[/quote]

Wisco is not a safety for anyone from out of state.[/quote]Fetch[/quote]

Well, it was for my kid, and she got in, don't know what to tell you. Naviance for our large NJ public was clear she would with her stats and she didn't sweat it.[/quote]

Perhaps you were looking at the scattergrams, but I know some people use Naviance's literal statements of whether a particular schools is a safety, match, or reach for that particular student. Upcoming applicants should know that this is a dangerous approach. A top student I know was rejected from a sought-after out-of-state university that accepts less than 15% of out-of-state applicants.

Naviance had said it was a safety. But here's their definition of safety: "Your academic qualifications (GPA & test scores) are above the academic profile of students nationally who are typically enrolled at this institution." Obviously, in this environment, it's not enough to have higher stats than "typical" to be guaranteed admission. In their labeling, Naviance is not accounting for increasingly more difficult admissions, and it's unclear whether they are comparing in-state and out-of-state selectivity rates. All around, I think Naviance can be a good tool, but it probably burns a lot of student who look at those labels.[/quote]

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