And my point was that parchment is certainly NOT data.
They can perform all kinds off statistical testing, but the point is that they have no ‘sample’, as they perform no standardized sampling (as pollsters might do). As CU notes, anyone can setup an account to favor their chosen school/alma mater and ■■■■■ the main competitor. Parchment has no way to know the accounts are bogus.
Think about it: how many kids who can get accepted into Chicago (using your example) would waste their time going on to Parchment just post their cross admits. I know my kids just rolled thier eyes and said, ‘why’? My son added, ‘I have better things to do, like Fantasy Football.’
I wonder if an organization like Naviance could do it. Not all schools use Naviance, so it would be somewhat skewed toward wealthier school districts, but at least the information is inputted by GC’s, not bored kids.
Actually, the students complete the final step in Naviance at our school. It is required for graduation to go in and mark where you are going to school and it is optional to include where else you were accepted and rejected. At least at our school, once the recommendations are requested through the common ap interface, the rest of it is up to the student. I’m not sure how enforced the “requirement to graduate” is even enforced.
^Wow, that surprises me, but it explains why some CC posters have found Naviance to be a less useful tool than has my family. At my kid’s schools they don’t have any control over much of the information. The college counselors input all the information included in the scattergram, as well as other information such as the expected difficulty of admission.
“Ah yes, but the college population and rigor of school was quite a lot different 50 years ago. Now, all sorts of low intelligence people are in community colleges, and doing well is trivial, at least in our experience.”
Yes, today many public HS in CA are more rigorous than it was 50 years ago, or least 30 years ago when many parents went to HS. They can’t believe how competitive the schools have gotten, when they went, it was in their words, a cakewalk compared to today. And the UCs do not assess intelligence and determine a person’s future based on that, as calmom and ucbalumnus have detailed, there’s a lot more compassion in how they view the role of post hs education.
People who idealize how much better education was in the past very honestly annoy me. It’s like they assume that, say, literacy must have been 100% in 1950 or something (and maybe even higher before that).