<p>i see all over CC people askig what their chances are for certain colleges.
peeple respond with slight reach, high reach, etc.
what does slight reach, high reach, etc mean?</p>
<p>I recently joined this website.
sorry. =/</p>
<p>A safety is a school that you have an almost certain chance of getting in; a match is a school about on par with your posted stats and activities, so you should have a decent shot at admissions; a reach is a school above those, where admissions would be cut-throat enough that there are no certainties or anything like that. Then when people refer to "high reaches" they mean the ones where the chance of acceptance is really really tough, and the "slight reaches" are those that are up there but not quite completely impossible, or something like that. It's just terminology used by students torn by college anxiety to try to give some order to the disorder of the college admissions process. =P</p>
<p>VERY general summation: If your SAT scores and GPA are in the 75% or above range compared to accepted students- not enrolled students- consider the college to be a safety-UNLESS the acceptance rate is less than 30%. Then it should be considered a match. At colleges where the acceptance rates drop down to the 10-15% range-like Princeton- consider those to be a reach, no matter what your stats are.</p>