<p>Columbia_Student said: “No, I don’t want to, I’ll be criticized for given more weight to the SAT and the rankings.”</p>
<p>I have a comment about your method: it gives more weight to the SAT and the rankings.</p>
<p>Now that THAT’S out of the way . . . want to share?</p>
<p>:-)</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>We didn’t really decide on a reach school, in the sense of any organized thought process about it. The only specific decision we made was that we didn’t want more than one extreme reach on the list. He had talked about applying to Harvard early on, but then he got excited about Cornell, so we basically said, “pick one.” </p>
<p>But the more realistic reaches were picked through exactly the same process as the match schools. We didn’t separate them into buckets and make sure there were schools in each bucket or anything. If it had turned out that all the schools he liked were reaches, we’d have a problem, but fortunately there are at least four schools on his list that he’s got an excellent chance of getting into, and one other that’s probably a 50/50 shot.</p>
<p>(mantori.suzuki: how I wish you were right.)</p>