<p>Once you figure out you are not a special (or recruited) applicant (for anything… sports, race, geography, fame, faculty relation, legacy, etc), you should only be comparing yourself with others in the same position. Naviance can be very useful for this, much more useful than college published data which conflates all these applicants into one 25%/75% statistic. Better still is to sit down with a school counselor in front of Naviance, going through the different schools and how similar students have fared in admissions in recent years.</p>