<p>I'm looking for a very general, crude, by the numbers definition of a reach school. What would u say is a REASONABLE, REALISTIC reach school?
For EXAMPLE: a reach school to me is an SAT score between the 25th and 50th percentile for that school
Or
a reach school to me is a gpa .4 below the average and an SAT 100 below the average</p>
<p>Something like that, just statistically (gpa, sat, rank) speaking</p>
<p>I have a bunch of schools where my SAT is above the 75th percentile but I still consider reaches. I don’t think you can have a definition of “reach” based on percentiles once you get to a certain level of selectivity. </p>
<p>Wellesley is the only school I know of where they actually give you a distribution of acceptance rates by SAT score range, and there I can actually get a percentage chance for myself. It doesn’t work if you just go backwards from what the SAT scores of their accepted students are though, cuz then you’re bound to be overconfident. A lot of schools accept less than half of students who apply that are above their 75th percentile mark because they weight things other than scores more highly.</p>
<p>Amherst does that too. I can’t really consider the numbers. I just kinda have a feeling for what is a reach for me and what is a target. It is true at a certain point where I am, everything is a reach. Even if your SAT scores are well in the range of HYPSM, they are still reaches just because it is so selective.</p>
<p>University of Arkansas - Pine Bluff</p>
<p>Any school of less than 12% acceptance rates is automatically a reach, in my opinion. </p>
<p>For other schools and based on the individual, I’d consider a school a reach if their GPA and SAT are below average for the accepted applicant.</p>
<p>Okay I think a lot of what you guys are talking about has to do with super crazy selective HYP caliber schools. What about schools with acceptance rates of about 20%-60%</p>