Is there a way to access Naviance or Naviance data w/o your child’s school having an account? Can you pay for your own account? Thanks in advance.
Honestly, I think the main benefit of Naviance is looking at data in the context of your child’s school and classmates’ performance over the past several years.
You can’t get access on your own. In the past, there have been some threads with info on getting guest access to other school’s data in a few instances. I question the helpfulness of looking at that as it is in context to that particular school not your child’s.
^ That’s why Naviance was basically useless for me when I was looking for colleges. We had either just started using it or our guidance department was super lazy (or both!) and there was no information there that I recall.
Common Data Sets were ten times more helpful for me.
Naviance only shows a user data from their own kid’s school. So an external account would not be useful.
Okay thank you for your opinions - I did not realize it was high school-specific. I will turn to the data sets instead. I tried Parchment but it seemed like vanity chancing. Way too optimistic.
We found Parchment to be pretty accurate. Perhaps it was a coincidence but my son was admitted to every >50% school and denied to every <50% school.
Parchment is a parlour game. No quality check on the data and people are free to lie. My D2 got into every college she applied to, including a couple where parchment gave her a less than 10% chance.
You could ask a friend at another school to check their Naviance for schools you are into in. The caveat would be for it to be very useful , it needs to be a similar type high school. And you may miss the ‘color’ that only the gc can provide- ie; the kid with the scores below the mid 50 that got in had a major hook. My school has naviance, but I shared data back and forth with friends with kids at different schools, and found it helpful to have more data points
Agreed. Check out the following thread re: Parchment:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1923064-how-accurate-is-parchment-in-predicting-college-admission-chances.html#latest
If your school does not use Naviance, you’re better off using the colleges’ Common Data Set to see where your child falls.