How many Schools per difficulty?Answered
Hello, I first wanted to congratulate everyone on getting through a pretty challenging year of school. Anyways, right now, My college list consists of 2 Safety, 1 Target, 3~4 Hard Target, and 1~2 Reach. I know that people usually recommend like 2 S, 3 T, and 2 R... but I am just not sure if "Hard Target" is more of a target school than a reach school. Would you say I have a nice list or should I try to find less competitive schools?
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I think you have a pretty good list. I'll write my list so you can see an example of a different one. I numbered how much I like them and made numbered points I think you should consider.
1. Unless you are sure you would attend the reaches if you were admitted I wouldn't bother applying purely to save money but that is just me.
2. Depending on what grade your in you could still have time to improve more making your hard targets into regular targets.
3. Everyone is different! I'm the type of person that went I like something I stick to it for life. After I found my top choice I pretty much lost all deep interest in other schools.
Just make sure your list had giving room. At first I didn't like my top choice due to location and now it is why I changed from my previous one.
Hard target,39.5% Top choice
target,51.8% 3rd
safety,72.2%4th
safety, 76.7% second choice even though it's a safety.
safely,86.6% 5th
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Thank you for your answer. I probably won't be going to the reach schools like you said.