How to Figure Out Whether a College or University is a Reach, Target, or Safety School for You. The Importance of Creating a Balanced List of Schools. Analyzing University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Riverside

# 073 – After listening to this episode, you will be able to analyze whether a college or university is a Reach, Target, or a Safety school for you.

One of the most important things you will do as part of the college admission process is to create a list of schools that is balanced.

That is, a list that has a number of schools that will likely accept you, some that may or may not accept you, and some that, more than likely, will not accept you, but you still apply to them because they are part of your dream college list and because they may have accepted people with some of your non-academic characteristics in the past.

Jankel and I uncover the easiest way to decipher for yourself whether a school will be a Reach, Target, or Safety school for you.

 Additionally, we present a document that will allow you to know the level of importance every school gives to each academic and non-academic component of your application.

We finish the episode by analyzing the most recent admission data for UC Berkeley and UC Riverside, and the GPA and SAT or ACT scores that would make them Reach, Target, or Safety schools for an applicant.

You will be surprised to see how differently each school views application requirements, even though they are part of the same university system.

Links used on this episode:

University of California, Berkeley: Common Data Set 2020-21

University of California, Berkeley: Freshman Profile for 2020

University of California, Riverside: Common Data Set 2020-21

University of California, Riverside: Freshman Profile for 2019

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