Question: Assessing Matches, Reaches and Probables using Naviance

ucbalumnus
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:47:46 +0000

porcupine98:

I know that if the circle appears way off in the upper right hand corner above all prior acceptances for our school, the school will likely be insufficiently challenging.

It is not necessarily true that an admissions safety will be insufficiently academically challenging for the student, although this can depend on the student’s major and whether it is sufficiently rigorous at that school.

Also note that some schools have different levels of admission selectivity for different majors (or divisions like engineering or business); if a Naviance plot shows a bunch of green dots around your student’s stats, but your student is applying to a more popular major or division with higher admission selectivity, the green dots may be misleading.