<p>Finally got D’s naviance number. I can’t wait to play with it.</p>
<p>cool Queen’s Mom!! I found ours incredibly useful and reassuring. The “test user” info the counselor gave me to get access to the system for browsing stopped working about a month ago, but since we aren’t planning any school searching soon I am holding out to get the official account for her in Feb. That will have her own data in there, hopefully including the test scores we are getting back this month.</p>
<p>^Warning! Mathson’s counselor noted in a meeting with him that she was glad he’d been using naviance as she could see he’d logged in dozens of times. He just rolled his eyes, it was all his Mom.</p>
<p>QM, S’s GC claims that all the kids were given a Naviance code, but S (who is very good about paperwork) says he’s gotten no such thing. This is the first year his school is doing it, although it’s going to contain 5 years’ worth of results. Hopefully we’ll get access to it sometime in the new year.</p>
<p>In other news, S got his PSAT scores yesterday, and they went way up from sophomore year. Still nowhere near anything NM, but a big improvement that puts him in the right place for the kinds of schools he’s thinking about, and makes him feel more confident about taking the SAT in March.</p>
<p>Booklady - great news, and congrats on the big increase in your son’s scores from last year. My D had a large increase too. Sorry about the problem getting the Naviance code. D’s school is supposed to start providin access soon too, but no codes have been passed out yet.</p>
<p>mathmom - thanks for the warning…lol. So funny!</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom - have fun. ;)</p>
<p>The info on naviance is very strange. They do not have her current PSAT scores on there and they are 25 points higher than the ones they do have from last year. Her GPA is calculated including 8th grade math and foreign language.</p>
<p>I also do not understand some of the statistics. For example, the SAT numbers for colleges listed as matches are lower than the ones listed if you bring the same college up by name. What am I missing? I wish the GC would have at least told D how to use the program (or maybe an instruction sheet or something).</p>
<p>Help me out here.</p>
<p>I went on there today hoping it would have PSAT scores! No. :(</p>
<p>I had no idea they could track how many times we were on it. ARGH. Note to self: Practice restraint.</p>
<p>QM, our system is new as well so I’m not sure if I’m right, but the stats I saw seemed to indicate the stats of other kids from our school who got in. But it wasn’t on a scatterplot, like i’m always reading about.</p>
<p>Who cares what they track? I have no intention of restraining myself.</p>
<p>Spoken in true CC fashion! :D</p>
<p>;) Absolutely! ;)</p>
<p>OK, I just checked son’s final semester grades. I hope they have room for me on the B+ thread. : ( Two Bs were expected, but not the third.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom, I’ve never noticed, but I’m guessing you are getting the college official accepted statistics in one place and the statistics that have been accepted from your school in the other. Sometimes that may work in your favor, other times not so much. The standard example I give from our school is that approximately 50% of those with 1500+ SAT/99+ weighted GPAs get accepted and only one student on the scattergram has been accepted outside that cluster, while the only two people who have ever been accepted to Stanford were not in the top cluster. But if you look at standard statistics for Stanford you’d think your chances at Harvard or Stanford should be about the same. They aren’t, not from our school.</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay: B+ thread? My D, so far a straight A student, currently has a C+ average in Math and a B+ in Spanish, according to the online grades on the school website. And it is going to stay that way for a full 2 weeks while they are out for the holiday. They just started a new marking period after Thanksgiving and my D has been missing a lot of school because of debate tournaments. The C+ is a combination of her getting a ‘F=0’ for assignments not turned in, and a test that she seems to have bombed. She assures me that all those grades will become A’s by the time the marking period is over. I hope she is right.</p>
<p>This online access to grades is new to us this year and at first I thought it was a little too much information. But since it’s there, I check it…quite a bit…I hope the counselor is not tracking the number of times I log in!</p>
<p>vp - makes me glad in a way that we don’t have the ability to track our kids’ grades online (though I hear that’ll be coming soon). I’d probably drive my kids crazy.</p>
<p>^^^^ LIMOMOF2, me too! </p>
<p>I’d love to have some Naviance scattergrams, but if I could check on D’s grades daily I would be an even bigger nag than I already am. I keep reminding myself - if she goofs off and gets lower grades than she’s capable of, then SHE will be the one with limited college choices. But I am going to enforce a 2 hours per day no cellphone/texting/IM rule. D insists she can study and concentrate with the texting going off every 45 seconds, but I KNOW that is NOT possible. (FYI, D had 6000+ texts last month).</p>
<p>Lafalum, That is quite an incredible number of texts.
I, too, try to remind myself that S is responsible for his grades, and thus his future college prospects. But it is hard to watch them not work up tho the potential you know they have.</p>
<p>Lets see…6000 texts/mo is approx 200/day. Hmm…that’s a few more times than I check in to C.C., so I agree, that <em>is</em> excessive! </p>
<p>About the online grades, there is a positive side to it. You never have to ask “So, how did you do on that test last Thursday?”. Leaves more time to talk about other things- like, “So, what colleges do you think we should visit in Spring break?”.</p>
<p>That sounds about average around here. I certainly hope that by the same token that the compartment of the brain that controls the little finger of the left hand allows the one that controls the little finger of the right hand to do something else while they play the piano, the compartment that controls the texting allows the rest of the brain to function moderately well (don’t know how clear that was, somehow my compartments are starting to get in each other’s way).</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with a B+ kid (or even a B kid), Youdon’tsay. I have one myself.</p>
<p>Mathmom, it looks like you are exactly right. They are giving me two data sets for the same college. I have some more playing around to do.</p>
<p>Our phone plan has unlimited texting, and I’ve never looked into how many texts my D does monthly, though I’m sure it’s a lot. Something else for me to find out…</p>