<p>I am more optimistic than you guys. Heck, somebody has to be in that lower 25%. I understand that it is a far reach to apply there, but someone does get in, and who knows-this may be the year they are looking for middle class white Jewish girls from the DC suburbs. ;)</p>
<p>queenâs: hahaâŠummm, yea, my D1 is a white Jewish girl tooâŠand I have another one in 2011 with much lower statsâŠiâm actually going to form her list with schools that are still looking for that demo (or at least not discriminating against itâŠ)</p>
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<p>Who would that be? Also, what kind of Jewish life (ie Hillel or some Jewish organization) do they have at these places? My D is very concerned that she have some other Jews around-religious or not does not matter really.</p>
<p>I was interested in the Catholic University thread that was around here lately.</p>
<p>not sure yetâŠand as I mentioned on another thread, apparently the Hillel #'s are not that accurateâŠ</p>
<p>Iâm kind of keeping track of where class of 09,10 here are admitted that are similar in demographics/stats and hoping schoolâs agenda doesnât drastically change (the way one of my older Dâs choices did just as she applied)âŠ</p>
<p>Our Naviance has both sets of PSAT scores now, but no grades. Itâs really hard to tell what will be good matches - most kids with his SAT scores have much higher grades. We need schools that recalculate your GPA without languages! Latin really brings down his average!</p>
<p>yes rodney, but if a kid has dissimilar act/sat scores and applied to college A, would they show up in both scattergrams thereby skewing the projections? Our school is small so there isnât a lot of data on the scattergrams anyway making them less reliable. I am still trying to milk as much value out of them as I can.</p>
<p>And airfares from our Southwest airport to Chicago are not on sale :(</p>
<p>mathom, was that wishful thinking or are there really schools that calculate without languages? That is my Dâs strongest area, so we could cross them off the list right from the beginning!</p>
<p>LOL! Son needs a school that super-weights the languages and carves out math! ;)</p>
<p>jackie: yea, not an exact science as of yetâŠto make matters worse, our GPAâs are all unweighted so you canât really compare rigor and they include electives (which I know colleges delete)âŠbut I guess itâs better than nothingâŠat least itâs better than thinking that your kidâs not going to be admitted anywhere; cheaper than therapy!!</p>
<p>Our school has Naviance, but it hasnât been opened to the parents yet. 
Itâs supposed to be available soon, but I guess theyâre having a problem getting all the information entered.</p>
<p>Well our Naviance has only the weighted grades and these include electives. Still I think itâs useful because everyone takes electives and I doubt there is a significant difference if you are looking at the same school. For example, PE is required for everyone so everyone has that in their average.</p>
<p>Our Naviance uses HS courses taken in MS and all HS courses. Is still using his soph PSAT, too, even though the new score shows up in his fdata on the system. ?!?!</p>
<p>Iâd love to see Naviance scattergrams with athletesâ scores figured in. Would probably make S2 pretty happy!</p>
<p>Just remember sometimes demographic issues can play in your favor too. I noticed from our scattergrams that kids who apply to midwest colleges beyond the really famous half dozen or so get accepted at higher rates.</p>
<p>LIMOM, same with our school. I really wish theyâd get it up and running, so weâd have a better idea of where S should be looking, particularly when it comes to safeties.</p>
<p>Nowâs the time for me to jump in with my first post on this running thread. Daughter is also class of 2010. How does Naviance weight the grades for the scattergrams? Our (new this year) school college counselor says she enters the grades unweighted. But somehow they show up on the scattergrams weighted. (i.e. there are graph points over 4.0).</p>
<p>Oh that bit with the languages was strictly wishful thinking! He gets high Bâs in English, low Bâs in Latin (with the occasional C+) and some sort of A in most other things. Schools that donât look at your freshman year grades would also be good. Those, I know do exist.</p>
<p>welcome LloveLA unfortunately I have no idea about the answer to your question. I would have assumed it was just displaying the data entered, without any modification.</p>
<p>rodney we have the exact same situation- unweighted and gpa includes all classes. Since D takes a rigorous courseload with few non-core electives, I figure she will be higher in the minds of the adcoms that what is seen on the graphs.</p>
<p>And you are right, this is therapy! When I weaseled access to the guest account last year, it really did help soothe our complexes seeing that kids with Dâs stats are really getting into some schools she has considered.</p>
<p>I might be looking for one of those schools that donât consider freshman grades⊠for my freshman daughter!! But that means that her other years will be significantly higher! Truth be told, she just had one bad grade in the first marking period. I need to find out if only year end grades are reported or if all the grades from the year are sent to colleges. I assume the former but never hurts to check.</p>
<p>Welcome, ILoveLA. If we get enough newbies weâll pass that '09 thread for sure. ;)</p>
<p>Naviance is new to us this year, too, so we donât even have enough data to have scattergrams. Iâm sure weighted or unweighted can be programmed. It shows both W and UW on dsâs home page, but when if compares colleges it only uses W.</p>
<p>Welcome, ILoveLA!</p>
<p>Jackief - I wouldnât worry too much about one bad grade from your D2âs freshman year - especially if she pulls the grade up by the end of the year. Iâm pretty sure they average in the 4 quarters plus the grade on the final exam or Regents to come up with the grade that appears on the transcript at my Dâs school. Iâm also sure that other schools do things differently. ;)</p>