<p>can someone let me in on the cc language. Like what does match,safety,low reach,high reach ect. Mean</p>
<p>These terms are not specific to CC. Sounds like you are just starting out, so you might want to start with a good website to learn the basics and get a good overview of the admissions process, such as <a href=“https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started[/url]”>https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started</a></p>
<p>@BeanTownGirl can you just tell me what they mean?</p>
<p>Reach, match, safety.</p>
<p>Of these, the most important–and perhaps the least fun to think about–is the safety. A safety is a college that you’re pretty darn sure you can get into. But in order to be a real safety, a college has to meet 3 criteria: you have to be pretty sure you can get in, and you have to be pretty sure you and your family can afford to go there, and you have to be reasonably sure that you could be successful and happy if you went there. It is also important to notice whether your supposed safety cares about an applicant’s demonstrated interest in the school. There have been many, many students over the years who were rejected by a supposed safety because the college felt sure that the applicant would never actually enroll there.</p>
<p>A match is a college where you have a pretty good chance of being admitted because you have an academic profile (grades, test scores, etc.) pretty much like the students who go there, and a lot of students with those qualifications are admitted.</p>
<p>A reach is a college where your admission is a long shot. Sometimes this will be because most of the students at the college have better academic credentials than you have. Or, it can be because there are many highly selective colleges and universities that are a reach for everybody: Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Williams, etc. At these colleges, having an academic profile just like those of recently admitted students still doesn’t give you a good shot at getting in. These colleges get so many applications from highly qualified students that they could fill their freshman classes several times over without taking students who are any less good. As a former admissions dean at Princeton and Stanford once said, “I couldn’t pick a better class out of 30,000 applicants than out of 15,000. I’d just end up rejecting multiples of the same kid.”</p>