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WestrnMom
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Posted: Tue Jun 19th, 2007 11:32 pm |
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A friend just sent me a link to a high school that publishes the names of all schools that students applied to, their weighted and unweighted GPAs, whether they were admitted, WL'd, or denied, and all their test scores. The college names are listed, the students names are not. It was eye-opening to see where the cut off was, how many students applied to some schools (Stanford, UCLA, Cal got enormous numbers of admissions), and how few to others. It was fascinating. I noticed that the average GPAs of acceptances were sometimes higher than the reported averages from last year's Freshman class.
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DesperateDad
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 02:29 am |
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| negative. our school district does not publish.
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CalifCarolyn
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 03:33 am |
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oh that would be wonderful! I would love to see the stats for districts available for parents. That would be a nice selling point for houses...even more than API scores
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mom61
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 04:15 am |
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Our school does not.
The local catholic high school publishes in the newspaper a list of each student and the schools they were accepted and also what school the student has decided to attend. Like Westernmom I find it interesting to see how certain schools appear heavily on the list and how other popular schools are absent. This year I found it interesting that 6 students(out of about 50+ graduating class) from this high school are planning on attending Westmont College a school that seldom is mentioned.
The other private high school publishes a list of where their students are attending but does not break it down by student or gpa.
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scoop
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 01:49 pm |
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| We have access to some of that information through Naviance. There is not one list, but for a particular school, you can see how many applied and whether they were admitted, denied or waitlisted. It also gives the average GPA and test scores and then shows where you compare. It will plot a scatter graph to show how your scores compare to the other students who have applied.
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Chedva
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 01:56 pm |
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| Our school just lists the schools that the previous years' classes were accepted to, and that's only as part of the school profile. No grades, no names, no scores. Just a list.
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entomom
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 03:51 pm |
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Our school has a form to collect college results stats, but kids are not required to fill them out, and the school makes no effort to publish the data that they do receive. I asked our college counselor during the first meeting for Juniors if they had a list or something else that would give the schools history with college admissions, she said "No, it's just in my head". Since her first advice to the parents was not to worry about where our kids applied, that the finances would work themselves out, I was not surprised at her answer  .
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Wstrdg
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 05:14 pm |
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Like mom61, as part of the final issue of the school newspaper, our public high school publishes a list of schools/military/work plans for graduating seniors. The list does not reveal the plans for individual students, just a list of colleges/vo-tech institutes/military branches and "work."
A neighboring district (more affluent) lists each senior by name under the logo for each university. Again, this is a feature of the final issue of the school newspaper.
If you're interested, the school office is probably open during the summer. Or maybe your local library has a copy.
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atlantamom
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 08:52 pm |
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Nope. Some half-hearted effort is made to collect information about what colleges magnet students decide to attend. There is a bulletin board where kids can put down their name and college. That's it.
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PrimetimeMom
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Posted: Wed Jun 20th, 2007 10:05 pm |
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scoop wrote: We have access to some of that information through Naviance. There is not one list, but for a particular school, you can see how many applied and whether they were admitted, denied or waitlisted. It also gives the average GPA and test scores and then shows where you compare. It will plot a scatter graph to show how your scores compare to the other students who have applied.
We have that info on Naviance as well.
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mathmom
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Posted: Thu Jun 21st, 2007 07:21 pm |
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We also have some of that information through Naviance. They also gave us a list of colleges that accepted our students at graduation, but no numbers. I have to admit I looked at it and wondered if someone else had applied to Harvey Mudd and been accepted since Mathson was waitlisted. I know of only one likely suspect. (She's going to Caltech, first one in our school to go there as far as I know.)
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