No Naviance, Parchment, or anything else here in a small town in the Pacific NW. Our school helps support xerox and the postal service since school reports/transcripts still go out the old fashioned way!
Does your childās naviance update SAT scores? It does not show updated scores for my DDās school naviance.
GCs have to enter SAT scores into Naviance
@3scoutsmom Thanks a lot.
@4kids2graduate Parchment is free. You can sign up anytime.
@NYDad513 Our school does not report test scores on transcript, so we have to enter it manually into Naviance. It is under about me-official things-test scores
No Naviance here.
@Dragonflygarden Parchment is awfully generous with Sās chances. yes. We have a free account, not through the school or anything.
@ballerina16 @AsleepAtTheWheel Yeah, weāve discussed artificial intelligence and heāll have four years of programming already under his belt. Heās doing Psych AP this year as well as an advanced CS project (which I think he gets to figure out, meaning heāll probably not make much progress on it). But he is reluctant to major in computer science (kind of the family trade ā he has to be different!). I do hope he sticks with the āethics and rhetoricā essay heās outlined. It hammers home two keys points: 1) how much he values argument 2) how much faith he has in humanity doing the right thing (me, Iām a bit more cynical!). I am slowly coming around to the philosophy major.
@petrichor11 Our school does not use Naviance.
@dragonflygarden Thanks for the info about Parchment being for everyone. I looked on website briefly, but did not easily see the benefits of signing up (I am very cautious about signing up for things online until I learn details). Can you share your experience and if you think it is beneficial to sign up? @ petrichor11 @dragonflygarden your comments about parchment being very āgenerousā with chancesā¦do you put in stats and schools and it does a prediction?
Yeah-- you enter the schools youāre considering and it compares your profile and, essentially, āchancesā you. Which seems to be about as accurate as the average CC chances forum response.
Itās really not helpful for a kid to be going through a nihilist phase while writing college app essays and personal statements. Just saying.
Sigh.
We donāt have Naviance either.
Ohā¦@dyiu that āsighā speaks volumesā¦I hope things get better! This time in the life of our children can be wonderful, stressful, crazy, heartbreaking, exciting, bittersweet, tumultuous, and erraticā¦and along the way we hope love and support is enough to help them through it all! Hang in thereā¦and have a virtual glass of wine as needed!
I know our charter school doesnāt have Naviance, but I donāt think the traditional schools either. As far as the benefits of Parchment, I made an account last year thinking it would allow for communication with schools that my daughter was interested in, but I canāt say that it did that at all. Iām pretty sure all the college mail/e mails were a result of the PSAT and SAT. I wouldnāt bother signing up.
@dyiu13, well, could produce some interesting essays anyway!
Well my Sās college list is shrinking. We are now down to 5 schools - 3 that he really wants to attend (he will likely pick one to ED at) and that are probably matches/high matches, our enormous state University and the research university where I āforcedā him to interview last week (mostly as a practice run since he had said he didnāt want to apply since it is too close to home). He dropped two other small LACs with engineering since he thinks both are āmeh.ā He is adamant that he would be fine with either attending the state flagship or this other University now. I asked him to assure me that it is not just that he doesnāt want to fill out so many applications. He says notā¦I really hope not. He will visit the top 3 choices again in September. I want to talk to his GC and see if she agrees that he is likely to get accepted to one of these choicesāI donāt know whether I should push harder to add a few more to the list.
@momofzag, our S is only applying to 4 schools at this point. Presuming his visit to Temple this fall goes well, thatās his first choice. Heāll probably need to get the top scholarship to go there; he has the SAT score to get it, but his GPA will have to be weighted favorably. He has all honors and AP classes, so that could work in his favor. We visited Ole Miss over the summer, and he said heād be happy going there. Presuming heās NMSF (the cutoff would have to be two points higher than itās ever been and 4 higher than last year for him not to make it), heād get tuition +room. Even without that heās eligible for full tuition. Drexel is certain to be unaffordable unless he somehow makes NMF, which is highly unlikely given his grades. University of New Mexico could offer major money, but it doesnāt look that likely. Some sources say they give automatic tuition+ for NMSF, but I contacted them and was told that is not the case. Bottom line is he should be set well before winter break, since his top choices have rolling admissions.
We are applying to 5 schools as well. Only 1 of those is a reach( financially ) and heās already received provisional acceptance to one. I personally think if you choose wisely with matches and safeties , and youāre not applying to super selective schools , itās not necessary to have a long list of potential schools. This whole process is overwhelming for me at times, I canāt imagine being a teenager trying to navigate it.
@mstomper - have you considered Alabama as a NMSF candidate? They guaranteed money for 5 years this year.
University of Houston will make it free for NMSF candidates.