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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think this is realistic for a student with high grades and scores. Many schools will look like matches but are actually reaches. We were told to consider anything with under a 15% acceptance rate (I think) a reach. [/quote]

So if a high stats kid appears to be a fit based on the school-specific Naviance (e.g. Kid has Junior y.e. GPA of 4.3 and SAT of 1550 and therefore in the 25-75% range for most schools).  High School's admitted range is higher than the published ranges for the colleges BTW.  In this scenario, do you deem anything below a 15% admit rate a reach?  Any suggestions on factoring in the scatterplot info. to derive probability of admission?  For instance, the target college (even with 15% admit rate) may show that a few kids with better stats did not get in. [/quote]
NP.  In my view, anything below 25% acceptance rate is reach-for-all territory.  But, there are low/reasonable reaches and there are super-reaches.

Parsing between a low reach and a high match isn't particularly important as long as the family is realistic and there are plenty of low matches and safeties on the list, a solid plan for the real possibility that the student might not get into the low reach.[/quote]

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