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For those of you familiar with Review.com:

When you used the search engine that gives you lists of "good match" "safety" and "reach" schools, were they accurate?

Did you get into your "good match" schools?

By Cru (Cru) on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 06:32 pm: Edit

well,
I got into safety...

Michigan was a good match.
I got in...

By Congocross (Congocross) on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:27 pm: Edit

Safety means you most likely to get in, good match means that school is fit for you in terms of grades, SAT scores, majors, and geography, reach means you have no chance or little chance to get it. Hope this helps.

By Jenniferelaine (Jenniferelaine) on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:34 pm: Edit

The only "match" school it gave me was a fairly religous and very strict school (no boys in the dorms, etc)... which wouldn't be a good fit. The reaches were very high reaches for me, Northwestern and University of Chicago.

I ended up applying only to "safeties".

By Medusa2003 (Medusa2003) on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 12:17 am: Edit

I just ran the review.com college search engine.

The results were:

Reach Schools - None
Good Match - Carleton, Macalester
Safety - Grinnell, Rose-Hulman

I actually applied to two of these schools and was accepted, Macalester and Grinnell. I entered another school to which I applied, Washington University-St. Louis and "Good Match" appeared when I clicked "Rate My Chances". I haven't heard from WUSTL yet.

Harvard and MIT, schools to which I didn't apply also were listed as "Good Matches" although I seriously doubt that I would actually be accepted at these schools.

By Kelly_Johnson (Kelly_Johnson) on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 12:45 am: Edit

Yeah, I understand what they mean, but when I entered my ACT score last night, I was really surprised about my so-called "good matches." I was just wondering how accurate they were. Anyone else?

By Blushingclover (Blushingclover) on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 07:14 pm: Edit

I think that Counselor-o-matic on Review.com is a bit too optimistic as it listed schools like Harvard and Columbia as "matches" for me. THey are, by no means, a match for me ... barely even a reach (didn't end up applying to them anyway =\ regret it now ...). I would take what they indicate with a grain of salt.

HTH

By Useatoothbrush (Useatoothbrush) on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 01:34 am: Edit

Upgrade each school a rank and then it's rather telling. (i.e. it lists a school as a safety, make it a match; make all matches reaches; and make all reaches super-reaches). Has anyone had experience with applying to a reach college as given by PR and getting accepted?

By Innotof (Innotof) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 05:42 pm: Edit

I used the college search engine on review.com. and it came up with no "reach" schools, but it said that Harvard and Yale were supposedly good matches for me! I was also rather surprised to have it list Harvey Mudd as a safety school.

By 49ersfan (49ersfan) on Saturday, April 12, 2003 - 06:07 pm: Edit

All my "good matches" and "reaches", I didn't get into, and the majority of my "safeties" I got rejected from as well. I only got in a few of my "safeties".