Predictive Chances and Scattergram display settings

Predictive Chances uses data from similar schools and student profiles to provide predicted outcomes. Scattergrams, however, focus specifically on your high school’s admissions trends, plotting past students' GPAs, test scores, and outcomes. Together, they offer insights to help students make informed college decisions. However, these tools are only guides and not guarantees of admission.

Here, you’ll learn how to customize the display settings so you can control how and when Predictive Chances and Scattergrams are shown to students and parents.

Only users with the Account Administrator role can adjust this setting.

To get started, navigate to More > School Settings and scroll down to the Admission Intelligence section to access these settings.

Predictive Chances and Scattergram display settings

1. Predictive Chances and Scattergrams

Select the month and class year when Predictive Chances and Scattergrams will be visible to students and parents. By default, this setting will be set to August of Freshman year. Make sure to click Apply Changes to save your preferences.

Tip: If you prefer not to show any scattergram data to students and parents, select May of Senior year. This will prevent scattergram data and predictive chances from displaying in the student or parent app

In addition, a
student will only be plotted as a data point on the scattergram if they have both a GPA and an ACT or SAT score in their profile. This may affect students without test scores who apply completely test-optional.

2. Display Predictive Chances to students and their parents

Use this option to show or hide Predictive Chances for students and parents, independently of Scattergrams.

Please note: The setting to hide Predictive Chances from students and counselors is subject to change after an evaluation period.

3. Minimum Number of Acceptances for Display to Students

This setting controls how many acceptances from a college are required before scattergram data is visible to students or parents. For example, if you set the minimum to 12, a college must have at least 12 acceptances from your school for its scattergram data to be available in the student or parent app. The scattergram will appear blank to students and parents if a college doesn't meet this threshold. However, counselors can always view scattergram data, regardless of the minimum.

Be sure to click the save icon to keep your changes.

4. Include Applications Starting with Class Year

This option lets you decide how far back your scattergram data should go. By selecting a specific class year, only acceptance data from that year onward will be included in the scattergrams. Older data will be excluded. To include all alumni data, leave this option unchecked.

5. Plot Alumni Data Only – Exclude Senior Class Outcomes

Use this setting to choose whether to include your current seniors in scattergram data or to exclude them until after graduation.

6. Plot Hook Data for Families

You can share hook data with students and parents when they view scattergrams. However, no identifying information about the student or the nature of the hook is shown—only that the data point is an outlier.

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