Rejected almost everywhere. Gap year/transfer?

mootmom
Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:27:48 +0000

One way to find out whether a school is a reach or not is to visit their website and find their Common Data Set for recent years. Looking in section C of those standardized reports will give you the 25th & 75th %ile SAT scores for admitted students, % of admitted students in top 10% of their HS class, etc. If your SAT scores or rank fall in the lower end of these lists, you can feel fairly sure you start out applying to these as “reach” schools.

I do not know if blankman did this analysis on the schools mentioned for Paul9’s stats, but I presume he may have done so, to make the comments above.