As a high school senior in New York City, Taylor Florio was set on his future college destination. “I always knew that I wanted to go to a California school,” he says. “That was the main factor in what schools I looked at.”
Florio’s guidance counselor suggested he use a college predictor tool to gauge admissions chances for each school. What he came to realize was that the majority of universities he was considering were deemed reach schools. Now a rising senior at Chapman University in California–one of his reach schools according to the admissions chances calculator–Florio says that, while it did not impact his application decisions, this tool affected many of his friends’ college plans.
“I think that I’m someone who stands out who didn’t let these predictors hinder my decisions,” he notes. “[But] a lot of my friends didn’t even apply to schools outside of New York because of
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