<p>How would you describe a match, safety, or reach schools for highly qualified candidates? Are schools with 30% - acceptance rates reaches for all?</p>
<p>On the princeton review website they have this Do You Fit Section? and I plugged in my information and they said that Princeton would be a safety for me which - lets be honest - is only true for super freak smarties and recruited athletes ...</p>
<p>How can I decide wether a shool is too big of a reach?</p>
<p>Use the Search function, this question has been asked several times recently.</p>
<p>The PR is OK for information about schools, but not for determining your chances.</p>
<p>what search function? like a college search - i know what schools i would like to apply to i just want someone with some authority to give me some perspective</p>
<p>Search function on the forum or Google, so you can find the other threads. lol</p>
<p>It depends. If you are a URM, legacy, or other, a school that might have been a match could become a safety. It just depends on your stats, status, and the school in question. Research their statistics. If they have a 40 percent admissions rate but accept all valedictorians, then that affects whether it's a reach or match or safety.</p>
<p>Go to the navy colored line towards the top of the page. Hit Search and then Advanced Search. Highlight the College Admissions forum and put "safety match reach" in the keywords and you will get several helpful threads.</p>
<p>One way to get perspective is to present some of your stats and your college list on the Search and Selection forum here on CC and ask people for input on if they think it's reasonable and what advice they'd give you. I think this is more helpful than posting a Chances thread.</p>
<p>Thanks bunches</p>
<p>Princeton is a reach for everyone, as is just about every Ivy League school. Each school receives enough applications from students having excellent or perfect GPAs and test scores that if it wished it could admit a class based on those stats alone. But those schools don't want to do that, so they look to other parts of the applications - essays, recommendations, ECs, students' backgrounds, etc., and those can't be quantified (at least not by outsiders). In addition, those schools also claim to be deciding on individual applications based on how they want to construct an overall class, which no-one outside the admissions office has a clue about.
So when you apply to oen fo those schools (or soem othervery "selective" ones), keep in mind that they are safeties for nobody and sure matches for hardly anyone.</p>
<p>I just tried that PR thing and though I don't trust it, it did say every college I got into was a "good match."</p>
<p>I think the PR is probably right in your case, quanta!</p>
<p>Haha I guess so, I never tried those things before I applied because I was worried they would tell me I wasn't going to get in anywhere!</p>
<p>Do a search, someone, might have been tokenadult, did a pretty good thing on the differences.</p>