Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

Exactly. If this was sensitive info, do not tell people you applied. Also who cares about a students gpa anyway? These things feel important in the temporary but really have no reason to be so.

So now kids are supposed to ghost all their friends, take on new names, and live like they’re in witness protection to avoid talking about colleges? That’s insane.

That’s the mythical scenario you conjured up, and, while imaginative, it’s mostly histrionics.

No one is forcing your child to tell them where they’re applying.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

OP here - the bummer is that DC applied ED and was the only student who applied to X school this year. So, it's not that they were sharing their "business" -- it's just going to be obvious once the school lists acceptances...and we all know ED is binding.

But at least DC will have gotten in, so even if everyone can figure out their gpa and test scores, it was a good outcome. If your DC is rejected and didn’t tell anyone they applied ED to that school, no one will know it’s them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

Exactly. If this was sensitive info, do not tell people you applied. Also who cares about a students gpa anyway? These things feel important in the temporary but really have no reason to be so.

So now kids are supposed to ghost all their friends, take on new names, and live like they’re in witness protection to avoid talking about colleges? That’s insane.

Anonymous wrote:The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

Exactly. If this was sensitive info, do not tell people you applied. Also who cares about a students gpa anyway? These things feel important in the temporary but really have no reason to be so.

Does it matter though?

Anonymous wrote:The access to SCOIR or Naviance should be banned from parents and students. Thye should have no right to know other students' stats, identifiable or not. At our school, there are some tiger parents complaining about UMR got into this or that with a lower stats. College admissions is never only about stats!

Are you a private school parent? How on Earth would this data be helpful to public school parents without direct access? We have one meeting in four years with the counselor.

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thanks for responses. I'll chill. I should just be grateful DC got into their top choice and I'll never need to be on SCOIR again!!

Congrats + no need to stress now.

Anonymous wrote:The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

OP here - the bummer is that DC applied ED and was the only student who applied to X school this year. So, it's not that they were sharing their "business" -- it's just going to be obvious once the school lists acceptances...and we all know ED is binding.

OP here - thanks for responses. I'll chill. I should just be grateful DC got into their top choice and I'll never need to be on SCOIR again!!

The access to SCOIR or Naviance should be banned from parents and students. Thye should have no right to know other students' stats, identifiable or not. At our school, there are some tiger parents complaining about UMR got into this or that with a lower stats. College admissions is never only about stats!

The only reason the student is identifiable is because they told their friends where they were applying.

The solution is to not tell your friends every school you are applying to. Learn to keep your business to yourself.

It's very easy. Apparently at our school the junior class once made a spreadsheet with seniors GPAs and test scores.

Agreed, if the school is small and the kids know all each other's business, it's easy to identify people.

If you filter by year and if major is reported, it's very easy to identify students. This isn't uncommon.

Should let this go -or- be PO'd and alert other parents. I've let college counseling know and they're "looking into it."

On DC's school SCOIR it has "Fall 2026" listed under "Application Type" - so if you know a student applied to X school, it's easy to ID the student. This class year identifier is not listed for any previous years, just if they applied RD, ED, EA, etc.

For example, only one student applied ED to Wesleyan, and on SCOIR, they're easily ID'd as:
Early Decision - Fall 2026 Denied 3.95

Our school's SCOIR not only lists whether they were accepted or denied with the "Fall 2026" identifier, but also includes GPA and test scores (if they submitted).