<p>Just a note about Naviance. It is a great tool as it show statistics specific to your school. What it doesn’t account for is the increased competition, which we all know gets more intense each year. Also, for a school like VT it does not make a designation for acceptance data for e’school and architecture students (which are more competitive) and the rest of the school. So Naviance is showing you an ‘average’ for your school, however this isn’t the average for the e’school students that were accepted last year (the data most important to you). What you are seeing is several years of data for the entire school averaged. </p>
<p>There is yet another small glitch that you need to be aware of specific to the ACT. When a student takes the ACT or SAT their scores are entered into the Naviance database. Many times a student does better on one format then the other, sometimes significantly so. To show an example, my son took both formats taking the ACT cold getting a solid score but significantly lower then his SATs. His ACTs were not submitted to any school he applied to, however if you look at Navience at the schools he applied to his ACT datapoint shows an acceptance for that score. It’s very misleading as VT (and every other school he was accepted to) did not accept him with that score, they accepted him with his SATs. This is going to be especially problematic in areas where the ACT isn’t as prominent. So the OP is looking at the ACT data average for his high school and it is entirely possible that a number of those ACT scores being averaged in were never submitted to VT, but higher SATs. </p>
<p>Your very best source of information is going to be your GC. Ask what students within the last year or two applying to the e’school have looked like, specifically with ACT scores that were actually submitted, as well as GPA. This more up to date information is going to be far more helpful to you.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>