Most students Apply to 4 or fewer schools

<p>As Carolyn says, don’t use acceptance rates as the sole means of determining match. Some extremely selective LACs (including the highly ranked women’s colleges) appear to have high acceptance rates, although average SAT/ACT scores and GPAs are also high. To some degree this is because many of the applicants are self-selected. In other words, it’s a very strong applicant pool coming in to begin with in some of these places. That can mean it’s harder to get in than it looks.</p>