Our Naviance charts seem way easier to get into than the school's websites. Like waayyyy easier. It shows 48% acceptance to UMD with over 1230 and 3.4 unweighted. And UGA 53% with everyone over 3.2 and 1180 getting it. What is going on, old data? Those numbers cannot be correct. I am at lower tier public.

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Anonymous wrote:But all you know is GPA and test score from the scatergram. That's enough to predict admissions to most schools, but the most selective schools are pretty clear that they look at more than that.

+1 -- Naviance is way overrated and relied on.

It works extremely well for our private school. I can see how it may not for public since so many may apply each year and you have strange grade inflations that colleges need to decifer.

Actually, Naviance is even less useful for independent school applicants for at least two reasons: 1) the pool of applicants is too small to yield statistically significant information, and 2) teacher recommendations from independent schools tend to be more useful to adcomms. (I'm the parents of two independent schools grads as well as a current student, and I previously worked in college admissions.)

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Anonymous wrote:Multiple top right hand corners - near perfect scores denied for Duke, while a 30 ACT 3.6 weighted was accepted and was not a recruited athlete.

So that means Duke must really like their legacy families

Or was an URM or first gen college student or something else ...

Or, recruited athlete...

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The other red flag I noticed were flat out rejections on great students for UVA early action. But then lesser kids accepted under regular admission. I mean like not that impressive. That really has me confused.

Must have had crappy essays and/or LOR. Yes, this is possible even for great students.

Or UVA is practicing yield protection, knowing these students will go IVY.

This is what people who think it's all about GPA and SAT tell themselves when their kid doesn't get into a top school. Essays matter at those places. Teachers do have an effect. be careful about passing that attitude on to your kid because it might show up in those essays and letters.

I am surprised people would apply EA and not do a great essay. Why bother? UVA is definitely all the place at our school. Some average scoring kids get a yes and top of the scales gets no. I will say I appreciate that more than Yale who looks like they take the highest GPA/test combo and decline the rest. We have only had one admitted each year the last 5 years. Always the tippy top student. The ones almost as close? Denied. Wonder if they even look at anything else, especially curriculum.

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The other red flag I noticed were flat out rejections on great students for UVA early action. But then lesser kids accepted under regular admission. I mean like not that impressive. That really has me confused.

Must have had crappy essays and/or LOR. Yes, this is possible even for great students.

Or UVA is practicing yield protection, knowing these students will go IVY.

This is what people who think it's all about GPA and SAT tell themselves when their kid doesn't get into a top school. Essays matter at those places. Teachers do have an effect. be careful about passing that attitude on to your kid because it might show up in those essays and letters.

Anonymous wrote:Multiple top right hand corners - near perfect scores denied for Duke, while a 30 ACT 3.6 weighted was accepted and was not a recruited athlete.

So that means Duke must really like their legacy families

Or was an URM or first gen college student or something else ...