Reach-for-anyone schools

zephyr15
Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:22:37 +0000

Catria --

The list is longer than you think – You’re missing some obvious schools like Northwestern, others famous for this (justly or unjustly) e.g., Tufts and probably any other school in the top 50 or so in the USNWR University list and at least the top 20 LAC list.

In fact, the reason that students have ‘safety’ schools is that people get rejected by schools for which they are statistical matches all the time.

Perhaps rather than saying that these schools are ‘reaches’ for everyone, we should say that they are ‘safety’ schools for no one (until the admissions or likely letter comes in).

PS – I rewrote my reply while Catria responded, so this thread is a bit out of step. Sorry.