Reach schools, Matches, and Safeties

MilitaryMom
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:14:56 +0000

We only considered one school a safety for d-she was so far ahead on both ACT and GPA. It also turns out not to be a good school for her either even though they offered her the honors program.

All the other schools d has applied to she is either within the 25-75 range or a bit above it. Both she and we consider those to be either matches or possibilities. Why am I calling the one school in particular a possibility instead of a reach? Because it isn’t a school where she is below the academic level of the other students- it just is a school with high selectivity. It isn’t her first choice since she is almost completely undecided.