<p>Naviance is prominently displayed on our HS Guidance Web Page, but my D’s GC won’t say when it will be available to students. When I click on Naviance I get ‘Enter Registration Code’ but all the GC will say is my student can’t get the code until “later.” </p>
<p>I know, it sounds like I’m making this up. But I’ve done my due diligence … no student in my neighborhood has received the registration code, or been invited to use the system.</p>
<p>End of junior year after they did all their intro to college seminars.</p>
<p>Our hs specifically DOES NOT allow the students/families access…</p>
<p>citing privacey/security–all which is baloney…</p>
<p>grrrr…</p>
<p>fogfog–Why do they have it?</p>
<p>Can you access as “guest”? usually the high schools will give you a guest code (for us it is “college”)</p>
<p>^ rodney - Good idea. I’ll ask.</p>
<p>Just a little tip–Naviance doesn’t indicate whether someone was a star athlete or have some other sought after quality or talent, so it’s a little unpredictable. We enjoyed looking around on it, however.</p>
<p>^^ I wish I knew…I am very put out that they do not allow any access codes to families…</p>
<p>They claim that AdComs can back into data etc–and that it is not as secure as people believe…
they also claim the data can’t be directly interpreted because so many other things influence apps…
(sports, alumni etc)</p>
<p>I can go in to the GCs offices to see scattergrams–but to look at data at home–nope.</p>
<p>Strong considering writing the school and demanding they NOT use our student’s data sicne we have no way to really use it ourselves…Why add to a database that the families aren’t using. (This is a private school too!)</p>
<p>NewHope -At DD’s high school, students/parents were given access to Naviance at the end of sophomore year before summer break started. </p>
<p>QLM</p>
<p>We got access spring junior year as part of the spring junior college conferences.</p>
<p>fall of junior year.</p>
<p>Sometime in junior year for us as well. I don’t remember exactly when we got our code because I had no idea what it was and didn’t even look at it until others told me about it! We have a terrible, terrible guidance department. The new principal is trying to convince them to allow us access Sophomore year but not so far.</p>
<p>Yes, there are kids who get in to certain colleges because of a particular talent - art, theatre, sports, and that does skew it a bit but it still is very informative and fun. Oh, and there is no privacy as we have a very small school and you can pretty much figure out who’s “x” it is, especially at the very top schools.</p>
<p>Never. Our school can’t afford it.</p>
<p>End of sophomore year. Other kids got a more detailed Naviance thing that the school put together that had even more info on it so that exceptions to the rules could be noted. Since there are so many legacies and special consideration kids going to school there, it was necessary to have that info for any of the stuff to have any relevance.</p>
<p>fall of junior year. I can’t imagine how we would have gotten through the process without Naviance! I was not particularly surprised by any of my kids’ results. Even though we didn’t have sufficient data for some schools, it gave us a very clear sense of what level of school to classify as reach, target and safety (although we still used a super safety just in case!)</p>
<p>10th grade.</p>
<p>We got our access I think junior year, but that was when it was new to the school.</p>
<p>It is a very useful tool. I do somewhat understand the privacy concerns, especially in smaller schools. When only one kid applied to a certain school, you can figure it out and know their stats. </p>
<p>Another useful (but clunky, hard to setup) website is MyChances. You can get similar scattergrams, but for dozens or more students. You don’t know the school caliber or whether the self reported stats are a realistic cross section. But still it is useful. I was stunned to see how many rejectsions for high stats at the top schools. Good level set.</p>
<p>S is just finishing up 9th grade and got access a few months ago. However, Naviance is pretty new in our district so D, who is graduating from HS in a few weeks, didn’t get access till right before junior year (I think) -</p>
<p>For S’s school which is fairly large, it is very useful for the group of schools he likes because it has a lot of data points. The clusters are very obvious for certain schools. For outlier schools, it is not useful in the least.</p>
<p>Students and families are given access to Naviance in the fall of sophomore year at our school. The naviance averages are not definitive indicators, but it is always fun to look.</p>