Naviance - Page 4

wis75 · 10-06-2006, 10:17 PM

I first heard of it and looked at the data for one school based on a recent CC posting- it was interesting to realize how many schools are out there, especially on the east coast. With so many similar choices it must be difficult to sort things out and guess where the best chances of acceptance are, even to the point of being overwhelming. My sympathies, no wonder some parents become so obsessed with the college admissions process. It was also interesting to note that most students applied close to home- you could picture a map with data points and zero in on the HS's location based on the density.

jym626 · 05-24-2007, 06:11 PM

I wanted to resurrect this thread. A year or 2 back, people posted their school's guest access accounts to Naviance. As our school doesnt let us access Naviance (grrr) I wondered if people would be kind enough to post updated school guest passwords to access Naviance. Thanks!

CountingDown · 05-24-2007, 11:38 PM

Just found this thread -- our school has Naviance with six years' of data. If there are fewer than a given number of students who applied to a school (and that seems to be 6-8), then a message pops up saying that info is not shown to protect confidentiality. Don't know if this is an option that has to be turned off by the guidance office, but it does offer some privacy. Unfortunately, this means that a lot of the new 2400 SAT admissions results aren't available yet, as there are too few kids to post.

I like the scattergrams, but with six years of data (not distinguished by year), it's hard to tell how kids are faring currently vs. in previous years.

jym626 · 05-25-2007, 08:50 AM

countingdown-
Does your school have a guest password?

chocoholic · 05-25-2007, 08:57 AM

Not my school, but here's one:

https://connection.naviance.com/fc/s...hsid=hopkinton

password: hillers

chocoholic · 05-25-2007, 08:59 AM

and here's another

https://connection.naviance.com/fc/s...p?hsid=kinkaid

Enter as a guest - password "college"

(Kinkaid School (competitive private school) in Houston, TX)

chocoholic · 05-25-2007, 09:01 AM

and another

https://connection.naviance.com/fc/s...?hsid=newtrier

New Trier High School in IL, competitive public HS.

northeastmom · 05-25-2007, 09:02 AM

chocoholic, I was not able to get any of those links to work.

chocoholic · 05-25-2007, 09:06 AM

That is really weird, because I tested ALL of them before posting, and they all worked

Try them from the original postings?

If your school guidance has Naviance, please give me the code.

chocoholic · 05-25-2007, 09:08 AM

CountingDown · 05-25-2007, 09:18 AM

jym626, I tried to PM you, but your mailbox is full!

northeastmom · 05-25-2007, 09:26 AM

chocoholic, I wonder why the first few did not work for me. Well, thanks.

jym626 · 05-25-2007, 09:50 AM

Thanks for the heads up, countingdown!

jackief · 05-25-2007, 09:57 AM

I have a question about the amount of data schools can have available via naviance. our school only gives out passwords midway through the Junior year when the college planning officially starts. I've looked at their area on naviance via the guest login and there is no scattergram section. Does this mean that the school doesn't provide that, or does it mean that some stuff can be available only to logged in users and not to guests. In the "from your school" section there is a document library with forms. Also, do the schools pay a certain amount based on the number of accounts they have, or do you think they are limiting access just to keep underclassmen away from the college search too early (they can be like that, which is why I am hesitant to ask them about it to be labeled a parent who is concerned too early)

Thanks

mathmom · 05-25-2007, 10:15 AM

Our high school only got Naviance last year, but they inputted three years worth of data into it so it's pretty anonymous. If they don't have enough points they just don't put up the graph. At first I thought you were out of luck, but it turns out if you do the college compare feature, you could get an average SAT and GPA for the kids who were accepted from our school and how many were accepted. For Carnegie Mellon only 9 kids applied and 5 were accepted with stats that were considerably lower than my son. (Caveat though, at CMU you apply to different schools so it's less clear what the data means. They might have all been drama kids.) When the only two kids who were accepted at Stanford were solidly in the middle of the pack with both GPA and SAT scores, it made it pretty clear to me that kids from our school don't get accepted without a hook. As indeed proved to be the case - no one got in this year.