<p>When people describe your chances of getting into schools they will use words like safety, match, reach, and adjectives like high reach, low match, etc…a safety is a school to which you would expect to be admitted; your scores and grades would be much higher than the average candidate which they admit. A match would be a school to which you are likely to be admitted, but it is possible, yet unlikely, that you would be denied; your scores and grades would be at or lightly higher than the average student which they admit. A reach is a school to which your chances of admission could range from 50% to very unlikely; your scores and grades would be lower than those of the average admitted student. The Ivies, however, are somewhat of an exception, because their acceptance rates are so low, there is no statistically “average” student, the only thing you can say about every student is that their scores and grades are extremely high. For this reason, an Ivy(with the exception of Cornell) is a reach for almost every applicant because even the most highly qualified students might be rejected due to the astoundingly low admissions rate. I would say that you are qualified to attend an Ivy but I would say it is a tossup, you might get into Harvard, you might not…I say this because there is nothing that would separate your application from most others that Harvard sees in a year. Essays and recs will be crucial.</p>