safety, match, reach, high reach

cptofthehouse
Mon, 19 May 2008 19:12:59 +0000

It really is a crazy process. For fun, read “Take my Kid”. It has some valuable insights on the process and kids.

As far as picking school, the top choices are always, oh so fun to pick. Harvard vs GT vs Yale. Of course she’s loves that highly selective LAC. The hard part is picking out the schools she will like from the many, many less selective U’s to be her safety or match in terms of likelihood of acceptance. We have friends who did not spend much time on safeties, and was still fortunately accepted to a school that I would not dub a safety, but their D did. And they are all so disappointed, since all they wanted were those glittering top choices. I am not about to tell them that they were lucky she got into the safety as they don’t feel good right now, but they are, because of the attitude. Our journey was made so much easier by the fact that our son really liked all of his choices, and ultimately fell in love with the school that was not a “reach”.