Parents can’t buy into their kids’ high school instance of Naviance. You get access when your kid does and there are no fees to either of you.

Anonymous wrote:Who pays for this? Do the schools your children are attending have a subscription or something like that, or is it some kind of buy-up model where they sell memberships to parents like for other educational websites/services?

Also, I would imagine that a lot of the data - specifically admissions related - would be highly sensitive, e.g., race-, ethnicity-, gender-related admission rates or correlations to GPAs and so on. Does Naviance show data like that (e.g. average GPA of women vs men admitted to male-dominated engineering or female-dominated Ed programs, white vs asian GPAs, etc.)?

No Naviance doesn’t have the more detailed info you list in your last paragraph. High schools ;or school districts) pay a licensing fee to use the platform and upload their own data into it. Most data is from counselors (students GPA and test scores) and some is from students. But Naviance is used for far more than Scattergrams especially for seniors.

Naviance is also how most counseling offices manage all the pieces of an application: students use Naviance to inform the counseling office where they are applying and when (ED vs RD), to waive FERPA so their GPA and transcribe can be released, it’s teachers submit recommendation letters to the counselors (students can’t see), and counselors then transmit all these things plus the school profile sheet and counselor letter from the Naviance platform to the Common App.

Who pays for this? Do the schools your children are attending have a subscription or something like that, or is it some kind of buy-up model where they sell memberships to parents like for other educational websites/services?

Also, I would imagine that a lot of the data - specifically admissions related - would be highly sensitive, e.g., race-, ethnicity-, gender-related admission rates or correlations to GPAs and so on. Does Naviance show data like that (e.g. average GPA of women vs men admitted to male-dominated engineering or female-dominated Ed programs, white vs asian GPAs, etc.)?

Anonymous wrote:It's a useless piece of crap

data from even 3 years ago is wildly out of date. So much has changed in college admissions. See Bowdoin for example. Now sub 10% admission rate this year.

Anonymous wrote:When you have a kid old enough to be thinking about college, you'll learn what Naviance is. In the meantime, Google is your friend.

What does Google say about someone who takes the time to click and reply just to be a jerk? I'll go look that up.

Naviance is not perfect but it does give you an idea of how your child's scores correspond to acceptance from YOUR CHILD'S HS. For whatever reason different schools in MoCo have different acceptance rates for colleges even with same scores/GPA. Naviance helps you assess that. I found it useful for my child.

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand Naviance at our MCPS school because the scattergram graphic of accepted/rejected kids doesn't match the application stats right above the scattergram. For instance, it'll say Total Applicants in 2018 - 10/ 4 students accepted/ 3 students enrolled.... Total Applicants in 2017 - 8.... etc.
But then the scattergram image will only have 15 students' data points on the graphic, and they don't match the outcomes listed.
So I must be missing something.

I’m not sure I fully understand what you are describing but I do know that inputting the final outcome (accept, reject/wait list/withdrawn) is the student’s responsibility. Counselors often don’t know the outcomes, except for the college the student will be attending and needs a final transcript sent to.

So if students don’t get around to entering the outcomes, the number of results won’t align with the number of apps.

I don't really understand Naviance at our MCPS school because the scattergram graphic of accepted/rejected kids doesn't match the application stats right above the scattergram. For instance, it'll say Total Applicants in 2018 - 10/ 4 students accepted/ 3 students enrolled.... Total Applicants in 2017 - 8.... etc.
But then the scattergram image will only have 15 students' data points on the graphic, and they don't match the outcomes listed.
So I must be missing something.

Ask your kid.

Anonymous wrote:It's a useless piece of crap

I find it very useful for the school my son attends. It’s a private school with 75-85 graduating each year. It provides important information specific to acceptance rates at my son’s school and the colleges with which the school has a good relationship where, even when scores aren’t as high as the national acceptance rate scores, kids still stand a higher than average chance of getting in. Try useful.

It's a useless piece of crap

It’s that chatty fairy thing that follows Link around and constantly yells “listen!”

When you have a kid old enough to be thinking about college, you'll learn what Naviance is. In the meantime, Google is your friend.

I keep hearing it brought up on the college threads. What in the world is it?