with us is author and college prep expert rob franek. he's with the princeton review. a few minutes ago we talked about having reach match and safety, schools on our college list. how many of each should we apply to? - let's just define again reach, match, and safety. those reach schools are those schools where your numbers, your sat and act scores as well as your overall academics from high school, might be a little bit or below their averages. those match schools are where you match academically and you're perfectly to the average student that's applied to that school before. safety schools you are well above those average numbers for academics as well as sat and act scores. the perfect amount of schools to apply to, i think again, is between seven and nine schools, and they should be pretty evenly divided between those reach, match, and safety. if we use nine, three reach, three match, and three safety schools is going to be perfect. - is there a way to tell if you have a real chance at getting into a school that's a real "reach" or is it just a hail mary? - it's a