Anonymous wrote:Do these schools account for "hooks" (legacies, minorities, sports?). Not sure if my kid has it - rising junior. Small school and a fair number of hooked kids, particularly among those going to top schools, so I doubt it would be particularly valuable.

APS doesn't. The scatterplots show clear outliers of acceptance & so it's clear there's a hook there. But others that might be on the margin are not identified.

Loudoun county uses SchoolLinks but same thing.

our school does not

Anonymous wrote:What does DCPS have?

Naviance

Do these schools account for "hooks" (legacies, minorities, sports?). Not sure if my kid has it - rising junior. Small school and a fair number of hooked kids, particularly among those going to top schools, so I doubt it would be particularly valuable.

Our school uses Scoir and parents get access at the beginning of 9th grade.

What does DCPS have?

Ours didn’t have anything like this.

APS had Naviance with scattergram function. At DC’s school, that was helpful to get a general sense of how prior years’ students fared. (The sort function to look year by year was not available, which I prefer so individual students are less identifiable.) Also useful as it listed crossover schools that applicants applied to. What would have been useful is the ability to search by major, especially since impacted majors can have such a wildly different admissions profile. Now APS uses SchooLinks. Took a bit longer to get up to speed with this software. Scattergrams and prior accept/attend info is useful (school seems to keep up with the data each year).
Combining this info with the Common Data Set (especially the 25-75 ranges) and college published Cost of Attendance helped us create our list of good bets/targets/reaches. Reaches included schools that required merit gifts to be real options, regardless of selectivity.

No. APS has School Links.

Our school has SCOIR and parents get access in January of 11th grade. The scattergrams show results from 2023-2026. You can filter by year and ED/EA/RD. The plots also show major, test score with superscore and without, and whether test was submitted. It was very helpful, especially the results from the previous year since things change so quickly in college admissions.

Our school had SCOIR and then dropped it.

No. DC’s school uses Scoir, and students/parents don’t get access to it until just before the end of 10th grade. Even then, the school doesn’t use the scattergrams; that function is disabled, which makes the platform not very useful for predictive purposes.

No.

Our HS counselor has never even mentioned it.