<p>Or... what you considered to be a reach, a match, or a safety at the time of application? What influenced your decision to attend the school you're at? Did you make the right choice? </p>
<p>(As a rising senior currently flipping out about the app process, help put my mind at ease.)</p>
<p>Here’s another question, how’s your academic performance at the school?</p>
<p>^ That too!</p>
<p>How are you a senior and just applying now? </p>
<p>But yes, I’m going to be attending a school that was designated a “reach” by my high school college councilor. I also got into several other “reach” and “possible” schools. I had no safety schools, but several “likelies” - my grades were too low for them to consider anything a safety except schools I would never consider.</p>
<p>The perceived difficulty did not affect my decision. This school was my favorite out of all that I toured in junior year and I applied knowing full well that I might not get in. I did, and I’m very happy with the results.</p>
<p>I’m at my safety and currently have a 4.0</p>
<p>I’m at my safety, and it was probably the best decision that I could have made. After I compared financial aid packages and scholarships, I decided that I couldn’t pass up my school’s offer. Thanks to the original scholarship, I will graduate with virtually no debt-- without any help from my parents. Because I’m also participating in my school’s honors program, I was encouraged to become involved in research as early as possible, and I worked with several professors on various projects before finally proposing my own project. My university is really invested in undergraduate research, so I recently received a grant/stipend for summer research, along with departmental scholarships for both of my majors. In addition, because I’ve done well in my classes, I’ve served as a TA (well, our undergraduate version) for 3 classes and will TA again next semester. I think I’m positioned well for grad school because I’ve had so many opportunities to work closely with faculty members, and I’m really happy with my decision.</p>
<p>tmiles- a rising senior starts his/her senior year in fall 2009.</p>
<p>I’m a match, right now, that I transferred to.</p>
<p>In high school, it would have been a high reach - my grades were horrible.</p>
<p>I don’t think I ever applied to any reaches, just 3 matches and 1 safety. I decided to go to the most inexpensive of my matches, my in-state school. Right now I have a 3.22, but it will almost certainly go up after this semester.</p>
<p>safety/match for me because i was in-state, OOS would probably have been a match/reach.</p>
<p>picked my school because the school i wanted to attend was too expensive (now i couldn’t see myself anywhere else).
it’ll work out no matter where you end up–college is what you make of it!</p>
<p>I’m at a school that’s considered a safety. I’m doing fairly well academically right now, and did extremely well last semester.</p>
<p>probably a reach/match, except i kind of expected to get in because i did research with a professor there already
my academic performance was great at first, then it nosedived and i took a year off, now it’s back to being great again.</p>
<p>As evidenced by my username, my dream school was Sarah Lawrence and that’s where I’m going next year. I also got into several other out-of-state schools (I’m in CA) that my counselor considered a reach/match, and got into most of my safeties. I’m definitely making the right choice with my school: I’m getting insane personal attention, seminar-style teaching and a lot of freedom with my curriculum. Most of the other schools I got into were large research universities that weren’t worth the prestige when it came to learning.</p>
<p>Safety. Transferred from my match/reach.</p>
<p>I only applied to one school, and got in. Didn’t have any doubts, though.</p>
<p>i will be going to one of my reach schools (and the only one of like 5 reaches that i got into. well i got waitlisted at CMU but i dont count that as getting in) this fall. And, i will be going with a full ride in grants thanks to the financial aid changes made in lots of top schools for students form low income families. i’m getting an ivy league education for seriously nothing. they were the first university i researched and that was absolutely fantastic. im excited to be going! ill tell you how it works out though once the academics beat me alive.</p>
<p>I’m at a match, and I currently have a 3.61.</p>
<p>currently at a pretty high reach
i have a 3.5, and i don’t see it rising from here on out</p>
<p>Safety. Happy and doing very well.</p>
<p>Well, I am a senior and not at the college I chose just yet, but I feel like replying anyway. :)</p>
<p>I felt like all the schools I applied to (a whopping 3) were safeties. All were in-state public universities.</p>
<p>I made my decision based on money and how comfortable I felt with the school (when I went on tours and visited them). I had to feel like I would fit in, and I had to be able to see myself staying there for four years. I did not pay attention to rankings. The decision was easy.</p>
<p>At a match with a 3.82. I think I would have fared well at my reach (Cornell) but you never know…</p>