Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 12:06     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
Anonymous wrote:When are you supposed to start showing “demonstrated interest” and what does that even look like?

Here is an article https://www.scu.edu/admission/choosing-scu/scu-admission-blog/authors/eryn/9-ways-to-demonstrate-interest-virtually.html
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 12:05     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
Anonymous wrote:NP. Can a college see what other schools are in your Naviance list?

no
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 12:04     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
When are you supposed to start showing “demonstrated interest” and what does that even look like?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 10:35     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
I’d still demonstrate interest now. You can do online tours and join online sessions, etc. I’m not looking up who tracks or deadlines but possible ones to look up:

UVA
GW
Wisconsin
Villanova
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 10:24     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
U of Richmond—I feel like I read somewhere (a mailer? Their website?) that they acknowledge that some students find them late in the game.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 10:21     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
NP. Can a college see what other schools are in your Naviance list?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 10:03     Subject: Colleges that don't care about demonstrated interest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Even schools that don't track demonstrated interest will know if you added them to your Naviance account this late in the game. The transcripts and LORs haven't been sent.

They don't penalize for getting the application in at the last minute, but my sense is that they do if you add them to your list at the last minute.

My kid was WL at a few schools that were added late December last year. I can't find the source anymore, but I did look afterwards to see if schools have access to when they were added to the common app, and they do. Some safeties may not care, but targets/reaches might. Better to have a long list in September and not apply to all than to frantically add schools in December.


Not all high schools even use Naviance. I doubt that schools are tracking this.


It's on the Common App - colleges know when they were added to the list.