@Dolemite we have fairly spotty reporting at this point. I know of at least one kid accepted to 2 schools that has never even put the schools into the “I’m applying” bucket in Naviance. Since LOR’s and transcripts weren’t needed for acceptance, they didn’t bother. At some point it will be forced with the school but right now… it’s a crap shoot for many of the schools. For S it will be really obvious once he applies since some of his schools have never had an applicant! In a way it already is obvious as those schools now have a 2017 line with 0 applicants, whereas before it was a no data scenario and the 2017 only shows up since S has moved them into the “applying” bucket.
But I can see that for his 2 in state options…some of his classmates have beat him to the punch. LOL! I don’t think it’s helpful though as it will not reflect acceptances for some time.
@Dolemite I don’t think I can see the Naviance info you are seeing. Can you message me to give a hint, thanks.
Still waiting for the GC to send info over to the schools son applied to. Looks like she really will wait until the last minute, very annoying.
My younger son19 a soph tool PSAT last week. Typically kids take it soph, junior year and then they take the SAT when they are ready. I’m hoping son19 is a decent test taker, he has sights set on some more selective schools and wants to study engineering. Not an easy task.
We lived through that week, actually two for us, and that is why we have a land line. The local phone company treats its service as a utility and sent crews out to restore service even before the storm subsided. They actually ran the lines through trees where the poles were damaged. The local cable company, which is also the internet and VoIP provider did not sent their crews out until it was “safe” which was two weeks later.
Wow @eandesmom your Naviance gives real-time application data updates? Am I understanding you correctly? That seems pretty intrusive. Our data is a year old. You can try to guess who applied where but it’s not easy.
@RightCoaster I was basically referring to the SchoolStats page when there is limited information. One school my D is applying to EA is not one that is very popular to the extent that my D is the only student since 2010 to apply EA so on the SchoolStats page for average stats of students applying EA it just has her stats. Another school where it’s just her and a friend of hers applying EA makes it so now I know what stats the friend has.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek Congratulations to your D!!! Such a wonderful accomplishment and experience!!!
PSATs: D’17 has a normal school day today. But they also take this opportunity to have a senior breakfast. S’20 is taking ACT Aspire (is this what it is called?) as freshman in his HS.
PITT: According to Naviance of D’s HS, there are already 15 people applied with 2 acceptances. It seems a pretty popular school here. Anxiously awaiting for S’20’s naviance parent code
I cannot even imagine all students at our school taking the PSAT. Does that include ELL’s? Disabled students? Students who aren’t even in Algebra yet? There has to be some exceptions doesn’t there, because what would be the point?
@Hades321, I would think that the school would want all juniors to take the PSAT. Both of my kids scored about 30 points higher their junior year compared to their sophomore year. But then I don’t know the demographics of your HS, so I guess that makes sense for them.
Kids move schools to apply, then show as applied. That data should be tracked. Actual results will not populate until they enter accepted, denied or waitlisted. So you really do not know who applied as there are no stats with the data points yet. If of course, you are the only one that applies and you are denied…and you update (as you should) then yes, it would be obvious…assuming there were people you knew.
So, for example at one of S17’s schools there have been a total of 3 applicants since 2014. 0 in 2014, 2 in 2015, 1 in 2016. Only one accepted and that was the 2015 applicant. However there are only 2 data points in naviance so the 3rd person may or may not have been accepted…who knows as they obviously didn’t enter their info in! 2014 doesn’t show up at all in the application history list, which means no one even considered applying. 2017 however does show…with zero’s. That’s S17. For schools that no one has moved into the “applying” category…there is no 2017 row with zero’s.
If that makes sense.
At another of his schools that has had zero applicants, under application history you see only 2017…with 0’s. That’s S. If he had not yet moved it over, it would be completely blank.
I know some schools will not show data if it’s only 1 kid for privacy reasons. To me that kind of defeats the purpose of Naviance. 1 data point is better than none!
No ethical conundrums here! Y’all remember the ethical question about mental health days I asked early this week or late last week, I forget which? Well, my daughter is too sick to go to school but not to sick to work on essays today—so all ethical worries are averted! Or something.
Age of the school: My kids’ school was founded as an experiment by the school district in 1994. Of course, the school district itself wasn’t formed until 1947 (and the first high school—not just the first in the city, but the first one in the >1,900 square miles covered by the district—wasn’t opened until 1953), so we’re not going to match the ages of some of the others being mentioned, you know?
PSAT dates: The PSAT is only offered here on the Saturday date, no Wednesdays (don’t know what they do for those who have Saturday religious commitments). It’s assumed that all juniors will take it (though their parents or they themselves can opt them out of it), and sophomores can take it if there’s space available (if they have parental permission). No 9th graders take it, though (as I just posted on the class of 2019 parents forum) my D19 took it last year because both I and the guidance counselor were confused and thought she was in 10th grade. (Hey, cut us a break—it’s a K–12 school, so it’s not like there’s an abrupt, noticeable shift from 8th to 9th grades.)
Hurricanes: @CaucAsianDad, which one? For us it was Charley, in 2004.
@dfbdfb Yes Charley. We were living in Winter Park at the time. We will always have a land line and will never have another Laurel oak on our property.
So it was one year ago that My D created a gmail account to put on the PSAT and checked the box to share her email with colleges. In that one year she has received 1,591 emails from colleges she has showed no interest in nor contacted.
Total number of emails from he first choice school after sending test scores twice and three visits = 1.
