I am curious about UVA as well. A lot of said no.
@itsgettingreal17 Those groups are using the actual admissions rates for those colleges (or for the particular program in the case of CMU). So, 8 colleges with very low (<10%) admissions rates. I didn’t try to predict his chance of being admitted–I don’t really think there’s a way to do that for high reaches.
You all are making me wish I had naviance
Welcome @dustypig :O) and @lkg4answers
schools visited
Amherst (no)
Williams (no)
Northwestern (probably not due to cold aversion)
Vanderbilt (yes)
Duke (no)
UNC-CH (maybe)
UFlorida (yes)
Emory (yes)
She will also apply to Tulane, Rice but she’s all over the place now and doesn’t really know where or what she wants,
Sigh. :-S
I see some stats in our Naviance. Who enters the data, district or GCs?
All schools are different. Our school updates Naviance. But I still wonder how they get admission decisions for each and every student and all the schools that particular student applies to.
@itsgettingreal17 I know in my school we(the students) have to put in where we are applying, and then the admission decision, and finally where you are attending. So I’m guessing that’s how lots of schools get the data.
I am not 100% sure, but I think our school makes everyone request reference, transcripts etc via naviance. I think this is the only way you ensure naviance has everyone’s applied schools, right? I have not figured out how it knows who is accepted where yet. :-/
At DS’s H.S. the GPA & test scores for each student are inputed/uploaded somehow by H.S. staff. I know because DS’s information for test scores has been uploaded incorrectly. And at a time S17 had no access to a computer.
The students enter their own information about what schools they applied to and were accepted/waitlisted/denied. The school bribes them to put this information in by requiring it’s done before they can do some graduation activity. (I can’t remember what.) But I don’t know how careful they look over it for accuracy. We only got Naviance the year DD was a senior, it wasn’t much use to her but they did ask all seniors to enter their info.
I wish we had a slightly larger Naviance pool. Say the whole school district rather than just our H.S. Several of the schools S17 is interested in don’t have enough data to be useful.
Our school has seniors attend a homeroom slot where they are supposed to report the outcomes of their admission process. I recall my older son commenting that the form really did not capture everything he wanted to report (withdrawn b/c of ED). So…I would argue that the data is not perfect but as good as we are going to get.
I assume that the guidance secretaries then enter the info from the forms the students fill out. Who knows if every student shows up for homeroom on the appointed day? And movement off WL will not be captured.
Our Naviance is skewed by athletic admits.
Anyone else get an odd card with a puzzle (easy) from Minerva Institute? Intriguing enough to make us research it, but so obscure they don’t even have a board here at cc.
Schools visited:
interest: Neuroscience
Drexel (yes, free tuition)
Penn (yes)
Bryn Mawr (no)
Haverford (no)
Temple (no)
Princeton (yes)
Fordham - RH (no)
Columbia (no)
Yale (yes - maybe SCEA)
Smith (yes)
Mt Holyoke (no)
Amherst (no)
Pitt (yes)
CMU (maybe)
CWRU (yes)
UNC-CH (yes - legacy)
Duke (yes)
Chicago (yes)
Northwestern )(no)
Visits left:
Fordham - LC
Brown
BU
NEU
MIT (applied to WISE)
Applying to Fly-ins:
Rice
Harvey Mudd
Interested in:
WUSTL
USCal
@vickiSoCal Minerva is new. I think their 1st year was when my ds14 was graduating from high school. Interesting concept, but you’d have to like online ed. The traveling part is really cool, though. IIRC, the first class got to attend for free.
@whataboutcollege @itsgettingreal17 , D wants diversity in the school she is attending. By law, UVA has 2/3 students in state. ( I am sure that there is diversity in VA by itself). To her, that is not enough diversity. Mind you, 15 year old (when we visited) can be very opinionated, and after all, she is the one who has to feel it. For good majors e.g. business school, engineering, you need to apply to those majors your sophomore year(which some other schools do too). She also didn’t like the buildings or surrounding areas…we didn’t even finish the tour. That is the 3 nos for you 
D loves the farmer market at Lehigh. For anyone who is looking into that school
I just noticed that our Naviance already lists ~10 students “applied” the the various UCs and CSUs for 2017, which probably means that # of students have moved those UCs to “Colleges I’m applying to,” since the application isn’t even open yet. We have done that, so I guess DS is counted. However, applications for 2017 isn’t listed in the pages for the privates DS is applying to, so the GCs must have done something just for the state public schools to be shown.
I also just notices a new red bar linking to “Want to try a new version of this college page?” on the Naviance college pages. But, when I go to the new page, I don’t see information about admissions to that college from our high school – which is the main advantage of Naviance. If I wanted the Common Data Set, I’d look there.
@SincererLove I’m surprised that your D liked Lehigh but not UVA. The student body composition seems very similar based on my research. What do you all like about Lehigh?
@2muchquan My understanding is that one you submit the FAFSA and CSS (or whatever form the school uses), you can ask for a waiver. If it is not granted, you will not be considered for institutional aid at all. I’ve heard that it’s easy to get at some schools and extremely difficult at others. Some require a form, additional documentation, etc.
@MSHopeful I suggest contacting the schools directly before applying so as not to waste application fees as the non-custodial waiver is very difficult at most schools these days.
@itsgettingreal17 I may make a few calls. However I don’t think they will consider a waiver until they actually have the application and FA forms. But it can’t hurt to ask. At least I can find out the process and necessary documentation ahead of time since each school is different.
Got the personalized UChicago card today. It is really pretty. She is still not applying there .