End Goal: Have a robust list added to your "Colleges I'm Thinking About" List (aka your Favorites List). With a good Favorites List, you can finalize which schools you will DEFINITELY apply to. Here's the "Naviance Route" we suggest for most students:
Start with SuperMatch (this saves your preferences and sends that info to the other Naviance tools)
Check out Advanced College Search (it's like Super Match but a bit simpler)
Already KNOW which colleges you want? Use College Lookup to find those names and add to your Favorites List/"Colleges I'm Thinking About"
Check out "College Match" to see which schools would "swipe right" on you and invite you to apply!
The “SuperMatch” tool allows you to input your fit criteria, so you can have accurate results for which college best fits you.
Using the “Select Criteria to Start” button, you can start putting in the criteria which will shorten or broaden the list for the colleges that appeal to your interest.
The SuperMatch Activity is another great way to enter in all of your college criteria
• Choose from the drop down menu which characteristics you like in schools
• SuperMatch will tell you how compatible that school is to your criteria in a %
• Either Pin the school to save your search, or click on “add to the list” and Family Connection will save you school under the “colleges I’m thinking about”
Using the “Advanced College Search” tool, you are able to narrow down your schools by selecting your personal preferences and a list of your college matches will appear after completing the question inquiries.
To perform an Advanced College Search, choose “college search” under the “College” tab.
• Once you have entered your criteria, the search will provide a list of colleges and universities that fit within your preferences
Once you get your results, you can save your search. You can have multiple saved searches based on various preferences. For ex., “California schools – big” “California schools – small”
• Choose “college lookup” under the “college research” heading on the left column to look up a specific college or university
See and quickly favorite the other schools that students are applying to when they have also applied to a school from your favorites list.
Use the "College Lookup" tool to quickly locate colleges you already know you want to apply to.
Additionally, check out other colleges that have accepted students with stats like your own.
What colleges would "swipe right" on YOU? That's what College Match is about! After you're done saving your preferences in SuperMatch, you can check out "College Match" to see which schools would want YOU to apply to their campus. Here you can add more schools to your favorites list and also check out what similar campuses exist to the ones you've currently favorited (think Amazon's suggestion page based on your previous purchases).
Naviance has a College Profile for every campus in its system. This page is an extremely useful starting place to help you learn more about that campus! Most students use these Naviance College Profiles to determine their chances of getting in. Please check out our Determining Chances Page for more information. Watch the video below to see how one may peruse and explore the College Profile Page to get needed information.