Where should I go next?: How To Search For Colleges Using Naviance

By: Summer Acosta

​It’s that time of year juniors and seniors, college is right around the corner. The guidance counselors from Wethersfield High School recommended students use Naviance when searching for colleges. Naviance is a free website built to help students apply for college. Naviance allows students to build their resume, or make one, helps students to request for recommendations, and helps find the perfect matches for schools to apply to.

The SuperMatch on Naviance allows students to put their SAT scores, type of student life, diversity, cost, GPA and more, it helps students to decide which colleges would be the best fit  for them to apply to. Naviance even show a chart of people who have similar scores and tells if they have got accepted into the school, and even if they have dropped out.

Naviance opens up the playing field for students to start thinking about college and helps students to stay organized in process of applying for schools. Naviance has made it so students can put a heart next to schools they would like to go to, and even match and search careers.  Naviance wants to make searching and applying for schools more fun and less work.
Here are some tips from guidance :

1. Use Naviance (https://student.naviance.com)
2. Know what you want or don’t want
3. Know yourself (opportunities, scholarships, how far, etc.)
4. Know the kind of environment you want ( distance, state, and school size)
5. Ask other people ( get other opinions)

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