<p>Like many software packages, I think Naviance is configurable (by the school) to do a variety of things. It may be possible for schools to buy different modules/tools from Naviance, so what one school offers may not match with another.</p>
<p>Our school does the following with Naviance:
- Allows parents and students to maintain a list of colleges the student is interested in. Either parent or student can log in and add colleges to the list, but only students can delete colleges.
- When you click through the college name, it provides a variety of info on the college. My kid’s test scores and GPA are in the system (somehow from the school, we do not enter that). When we look at a specific school, we can see my kid’s scores & GPA compared to other kids from our school who have been admitted to the same college.
- There is a graph function that shows a dot for every student who has applied in the last 5 years to the college with the result. The dot is graphed against SAT and GPA on the axis. There is then a dot for my kid to show where she falls. The dots for kids accepted have different colors & shapes – I can’t remember the exact details (and they won’t give us access for D2 until January), but something like different symbols for admitted, rejected, waitlisted and eventually attended, waitlisted and eventually rejected. It might show if the acceptance was ED or EA, don’t recall.
- There is a profile that kids or parents can update about the student as well. The school also puts all test score results (including ACT, SAT Subject scores, etc) in the profile.
- I am pretty sure our school updates all the info manually, but we are pretty small independent school. I suspect there are options to update some things via an automated interface for bigger schools.
- There are some college search functions available that we have not used (we have Fiske and CC!) :)</p>
<p>It is certainly possible that a school would purchase Naviance (or some of the functionality) and NOT deploy all the tools that we parents would find most useful.</p>
<p>SJRcalderone, I suspect your GC is not well informed. How could acceptances get updated “automatically”? I am pretty sure that colleges do not feed info into Naviance; it can only get in if your high school takes the info on those students and puts it in. I understand why they would want to control that centrally (can imagine kids fudging acceptance info out of spite or “fun” or whatever). It seems to me that a college with a poor GC to student ratio would have a hard time with Naviance – they don’t even know where everyone is applying, let alone what the results of each acceptance is.</p>