Yes but when you see a kid from your school got into Duke with a 3.5 and 1250 SAT, you're given false hopes.

Anonymous wrote:We found naviance to be pretty worthless. it's not telling you got in because of non academic factors. you can get the same info re scores/grades for a college by looking online.

Depends on your school and the college you are looking at. If we went by national averages alone the match list would look very different based on GPAs in particular (the school doesn't weight or inflate).

Anonymous wrote:Juniors are in a bad position. An entire year has been wasted and nothing much to show for it.

By the time they apply to school in November, they will have had three wasted semesters and two wasted summers, and at least two lost seasons per sport/instrument/theater production, etc.

We found naviance to be pretty worthless. it's not telling you got in because of non academic factors. you can get the same info re scores/grades for a college by looking online.

Anonymous wrote:I have a junior and I am just now starting to look at Naviance. The college admission process seems overwhelming to me and I constantly keep feeling sick to my stomach. How many colleges to pick? 7. OMG! What if I pick the wrong ones?

That's why many seniors ended up with a lot more schools on their list than they had otherwise planned. More like 15 instead of the 7 they expected. Start building your list by figuring out two or three safeties and go from there.

Juniors are in a bad position. An entire year has been wasted and nothing much to show for it.

I have a junior and I am just now starting to look at Naviance. The college admission process seems overwhelming to me and I constantly keep feeling sick to my stomach. How many colleges to pick? 7. OMG! What if I pick the wrong ones?

If your kid is a junior, have him/her do practice SAT and ACT at home to see which is the strength.

Juniors still have time to take tests. Seniors have mostly already submitted applications (unless rolling admission). Still plenty of time; don’t stress.

Anonymous wrote:My DD was unable to take either the SAT or ACT this year, Naviance uses her PSAT score in the scatterplot. Not a great or very helpful comparision.

We deleted the PSAT score so the scattergram only compares GPA.

Anonymous wrote:My DD was unable to take either the SAT or ACT this year, Naviance uses her PSAT score in the scatterplot. Not a great or very helpful comparision.

Yes, that's all you have. That's what has made this college admissions season so difficult, and why some of us with seniors had to work to control our emotions when everyone keeps saying not to worry about tests because schools are test optional. Not having a score makes Naviance less informative.

My DD was unable to take either the SAT or ACT this year, Naviance uses her PSAT score in the scatterplot. Not a great or very helpful comparision.

To add to the above, whether tests were available varies widely by geographic area. My guess is that most students, the vast majority nationally, will have taken a test, and that will show up for their data point in Naviance. Certain places where that was especially difficult (like California) will have fewer data points on their scattergrams for class of 2021 than is typical.

Personal guess, with no actual knowledge: I think the scattergram will include scores of students who took tests even where the student did not submit the scores to the college. (I believe this is the case now and has been for years.) For students who did not take any test at all, they will not be represented on the scattergram unless Naviance does something different.

Any guesses on how the Naviance spreadsheet will look if only some students have SAT scores?