Reach vs Match/safety

evergreen5
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:54:41 +0000

Whether “reach” conflicts with fit depends on how reach is defined. Highly selective colleges may fit academically but may be reaches for everyone due to low acceptance rates. If a student’s stats cross the threshold of the 25th percentile, shouldn’t that be a fit? Is being within the bottom 25% necessarily not a fit if a quarter of the class is similar?