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The Naviance grid information is not complete because it's based only on scores and GPA, thus it's not always accurate.  We have 2 recent Sidwell grads for whom the grid prediction was completely wrong.  They were both accepted at their first choice school, which Naviance and their counselor said they would never get into.  [/quote]

You're absolutely right, Naviance and similar programs won't tell you which kid was accepted with a low GPA but was a legacy or athletic recruit. It can't, for privacy reasons, because people would be able to identify individual kids that way. Imagine seeing that two kids got into UPenn last year, and if Naviance tells you that one of the two was an athletic recruit, then pretty soon everybody is talking about the SATs and GPA of John the athletic recruit.

The thing is, it's the counselor's entire job to know these things, and to steer families away from the dot representing John with a generic "this student brought something special to the table."[/quote]

Yes, that's exactly what the counselors should be doing, but they don't.  There are at least a half-dozen SFS grads from the class of 2012 who are transferring this year, suggesting that those students did not receive helpful guidance regarding fit and/or likelihood of admission.  Moreover, it also raises the questions of whether the counselors were effective in advocating for those students.   [/quote]

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