I have been reading in several places that schools are dropping Naviance and selecting less expensive options. For students and parents, if your school uses/used it, has it been dropped?
We still use it, as does the school my daughter attends.
Our school still uses it.
Not around here. In the last ten years, they’ve actually added a lot more features.
It’s still super limited, but overall not a bad tool, as long as people actually use it thoughtfully.
our school is changing, not sure why and dont know the new one being used
It is very expensive…I am not sure how pricing works, but it’s not uncommon that it costs several hundred thousand dollars per school per year.
Our school (large public) uses it, but does not make use of many of the features. Our scattergram results don’t show ED/EA/RD detail, so that data is not as useful as it could be either. Not sure it makes sense to pay that kind of money and not use the full power of the software.
Naviance is pulling out of the international market, which could result in higher US prices, but I am just speculating on that.
Our school uses it, but given that it’s a comparatively small magnet school I don’t think the data is particularly helpful. The sample size for all but the in-state colleges is too small, there is no notation of whether an applicant had “hooks”.
I will say that one of the few helpful bits of info Naviance provided my son was how apparently random elite college admission is. It was immediately obvious in looking at the scattergram for any super selective college that for super selective colleges that there is no hard and fast cut off line for grades or test scores and that he needed to focus hard on the other parts of the app to be successful.
I am currently at the NYSACAC conference and Naviance is here as a vendor. Some of the complaints that I am hearing is that the pricing is too expensive. I was talking to a counselor who says her school pays over 10K/year for Naviance and she still has not been fully trained.
I personally think that it is a tool that can be beneficial for a large school. However, there is not enough rich data for use in small schools. When I worked in a small school setting I could tell you the reason exactly why a student got in or did not get into a certain school. Naviance is not good with outliers and students who have extenuating circumstances/special cases. While they have added on features, these same interest inventories can be gathered much less expensively (or even free) not justifying the cost.
I wish our HS offered it! They don’t, and we are among the largest school districts in our state. Neighboring towns do offer it.
What are the “less expensive options”? I am not aware of any, but would be interested in researching them.
If you mean the scattergrams:
Someone can just type in two column (GPA or rank, SAT or ACT) data sets for each (a) college/division/major/scholarship, and (b) admit, admit-special (e.g. spring), reject, waitlist, then use gnuplot to generate scattergrams (with admit, admit-special, reject, waitlist, scholarship datasets in different colors on the same plot).
Naviance is merely a mostly outdated interface tool that adds more work for both the students and teacher.
As the Common App and other state applications have become more sophisticated, there’s almost no reason for Naviance as far as students go.
For counselors and teachers, particularly at the larger high schools, it creates an unnecessary, non-intuitive alternate pathway to upload transcripts, rec’s and school profiles - again that most application apps (including Common, Universal, Coalition and BCapp) already have in place AT NO COST.
Many claim that the scattergrams make it worthwhile, but there has to be several years of history to make it worthwhile. Additionally, Scattergrams does not track majors, so it’s statistically unreliable for many students who may rely on the information at face value.
Several school administrators in my area who’ve subscribed to it, feel locked into contracts that they’ve paid much too much for given the value for investment and are counting the time until their contracts are up.
Sorry for the rant.
In case you didn’t notice, I don’t like it… 
DIY scattergrams as described in reply #9 can be done in a way that accounts for different majors or other admission buckets by just treating each major or admission bucket as its own school. If Naviance does not allow doing that, that is an advantage for dropping Naviance in favor of DIY scattergrams.
Common app is expanding who they integrate with. And some schools are switching to MiaLearning ( or is it maialearning?) and Scoir