What should Naviance give students and their families?

I only speak for the three years of stats that is currently loaded for our school, but I don’t see Naviance as useless at all. Sure, it doesn’t have hooks loaded into the database, but you can see someone with lower stats who was accepted and you make an assumption that it was for a hook.

Also, the information of students with hooks, for the most part, is known at the school. We know the sports stars and through the grapevine, you know who’s received big merit aid or a scholarship. These tend not to be secrets. In any case, a green checkmark that’s lower and to the left of the other green checkmarks seems obvious to me that it’s a hook.

As for data not being correct or corrected, well, that can happen with any database. Personally, the HYPSM etc. graphs certainly paint an extremely difficult admittance picture at our school. Nothing rosy there.

No doubt Naviance is an excellent tool beyond the scattergrams, since it also has tracking for apps, scholarships, LOR’s, etc. But it’s not perfect. I think it’s great.