<p>Reaches arent always places where students are too academically weak. It could be perhaps due to certain ‘fluke’ red flags in the application that make those places a reach, even when the student is academically qualified and ready to excel in those places. </p>
<p>Of course, most students wouldnt really care as long as they could get to harvard, but harvard knows they wouldnt ‘excel’ there (that was so mean >_<)</p>