web site for SAT score and Student profiles

Incamom · 10-29-2009, 09:57 AM

Dear parents, I need help again. I am trying to navigate D2’s college selection this week while I am back home. I remember a web site from 4,5 years ago. It’s about the SAT score and Student profiles, and which school admitted him/her and which rejected them. You can also choose by schools, see the profile for the admitted pool, and the rejected pool. Does anyone know the name of the web site or can direct me to another site that has similar function so I can compare my D’s profile to the students the particular school has admitted or rejected.

Daughter and I are both panicking.

Sally_Rubenstone · 10-29-2009, 11:00 AM

Incamom ... are you talking about Naviance? Does that ring a bell? If so, contact your daughter's high school guidance department to confirm that the school is a Naviance subscriber and to get log-on information.

niftydesign · 10-29-2009, 11:02 AM

collegedata dot com

mathmom · 10-29-2009, 11:22 AM

I don't think sites that rely on self reported student data are of much use. In general the rejectees are less likely to report. The college board site has pretty good charts in their College Matchmaker/college search section. You don't see the rejected pool though. You can get a pretty good idea of who gets rejected by looking right here on CC at the Admissions threads each spring and from the stats profile link (top left) also right here on CC.

You can also look at Naviance data from other schools if your school doesn't have it. It works best if you can find a school that is similar to yours. If you search "naviance" here on CC you can pull up a thread that list schools that have guest passwords.

missemily516 · 10-29-2009, 12:26 PM

Cappex has some stats about admitted/rejected students.

elizabethh · 10-29-2009, 12:26 PM

mathmom, aren't the scores and acceptances on CC self-reported also? IMO, the best way to get information is from the common data for each school. There is a breakdown of acceptances by gpa and sat scores, male and female. I know there's a thread on here that is called "list of common data" or something, or you can google any school and the words common data and you will be taken to their common data reports. It's helped me a lot with my son's application process.

elizabethh · 10-29-2009, 12:35 PM

Links to the Common Data Sets Posted by Colleges is the name of that thread.

mathmom · 10-29-2009, 02:22 PM

Yes, CC scores are just as self-reported. Not every school posts the Common Data set, but it's the best source when you can find it. Naviance is also very useful especially if your own school has it with a couple of years worth of data. GPAs aren't always easy to translate. I do think that reading through the rejections in the Acceptance threads is a pretty good wake up call as to how brutal it is out there at the super selective colleges. It's very hard to tell the difference between the students who were accepted and those who weren't. It makes it very clear that it's not all about stats.

Incamom · 10-29-2009, 02:50 PM

Thank you, the info helps. I've read more through the web site, looks like Naviance is the most closed one that I can get an idea of which college might accept D.

ucsd_ucla_dad · 10-29-2009, 03:35 PM

Once you narrow the college list down a bit you can then go to the particular colleges' websites and look for the 'common data set' which should give you the percentiles of the the GPA/SAT for the admitted class. It'll give your D a better idea where she would fit based on the last year's admits. Remember that half the students at the college were 'below' the 'average' scores so if she's close to that threshold it doesn't mean she'd necessarily be rejected.