Read Abbi's tips on how to identify your match, target and reach university alternatives
Match courses should be those to which you have a reasonably good chance of admission. You should have 1 or 2 match courses in your application list.
These are courses to which your admission is achievable — but are a notch above your match choices and slightly below your reach university/course goals.
Your reach choices are aspirational and really stretch your academic goals. They represent the highest entry requirements of all your choices.