<p>Like, for a low match school you could say a 80% chance of getting in, for example; for a reach school you may say a 15% chance, etc, etc</p>
<p>Safety:
Low Match:
Match:
High Match:
Low Reach:
Reach:</p>
<p>Very few people associate those terms with percentages. Here is a basic understanding, a match is a school that your stats match, it is very straight forward and unless you are looking at ivies/top tier schools with extremely low admissions rate you classify it a match. Your reaches are schools where your stats match but the schools have really low admissions rate making them hard to predict, reaches are also schools where your stats are lower then the averages of the school, but not so low that the school is unrealistic. Likewise safeties are schools where your stats are above their averages and it is very likely that you will get in. Things like high match/low reach (which is basically the same thing) is used when somebody is in between two terms.</p>
<p>^To add on to ArtsyGirl’s post, safeties also need to be financial safeties. It won’t really be a safety unless you know that you can afford it</p>