I agree with PP that ECs, essays or recommendations may have been weaker than he thought. Especially at the very competitive schools, there are so many kids with great scores for so few spots that they have to make distinctions based on the soft skills aspects. For example, a kid can be brilliant but of the teachers think he is not a team player or cheats or something like that, he will not get a good recommendation (not saying your kid falls into that bucket, just using an example).

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trust naviance. My son with near perfect SAT score and 4.89 GPA was rejected from every single school except for his safeties.

Let me guess, the rejections were from colleges with <25% acceptance rates? Then yeah, don’t count on those.

+1

Target schools for kids like this are still reaches, statistically speaking.

Did he have schools that were in between Reach and Safety? (What are those schools called?)

I would wonder if the schools received all the components of the application.

I am sorry if your son is disappointed...but I think what people are saying is that a lot of low chances do not add up (in a cumulative way) to a large chance. He was unlikely (statistically) to get into his reaches (or they would have been targets). Don't know how optimistic you were in choosing your targets.

It is also possible (though I know that this is hard for a parent to hear) that his essay or recommendations were not well received.

Consider this a teachable moment...He will learn that there are many paths to a happy future.

white kid?

This has been discussed in here before - any data before, say, two years ago is out of date. Things really started to change with the most selective schools and many of the top 10 LACS at that time.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t trust naviance. My son with near perfect SAT score and 4.89 GPA was rejected from every single school except for his safeties.

wow, that is incredible. What kind of schools are we talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trust naviance. My son with near perfect SAT score and 4.89 GPA was rejected from every single school except for his safeties.

Let me guess, the rejections were from colleges with <25% acceptance rates? Then yeah, don’t count on those.

This. You can't count on Naviance for those schools. Once you have the stats to be in range, it's really just a lottery.

Unfortunately, these kids can also then be rejected from schools that should easily be matches due to yield protection.

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Anonymous wrote:Who said Naviance was a definite predictor of where your kid would get in?

No one, however, it is misleading. So just a heads up

No. It’s just data. If you choose to interpret it one way, that’s on you. You have to take into account that the data may be several years old and that colleges may become more/less competitive over several years. As another poster noted, you have to take into account how many data points there are. And you have to remember that you’re only getting a partial picture. You can’t see what extracurriculars or hooks were also part of the application with those scores.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t trust naviance. My son with near perfect SAT score and 4.89 GPA was rejected from every single school except for his safeties.

Let me guess, the rejections were from colleges with <25% acceptance rates? Then yeah, don’t count on those.

I need to know this for next year....isn’t Naviance just an overview of scores ( gpa and sat/act) that provide the typical stats you’d want to hit even consider if viable option? After that, it’s what the school wants the profile of that years class. Frustrating I am anticipating but I’m reading that’s what it is now as so many kids have these high scores now.

I hope you dc finds a place he feels good about!

Maybe it’s wrong at your school - but every school is different. How many data points are there for his reaches? If not many, then the data is not reliable.

Anonymous wrote:Who said Naviance was a definite predictor of where your kid would get in?

No one, however, it is misleading. So just a heads up

Who said Naviance was a definite predictor of where your kid would get in?

Don’t trust naviance. My son with near perfect SAT score and 4.89 GPA was rejected from every single school except for his safeties.