This is the most common message we get, and it is usually wrong.
Students consistently underestimate what their rank reaches, because they compare against the handful of institutes everyone talks about rather than the full list of government colleges, home-state quotas, category seats and later rounds. Every year we work with students who had already decided a government seat was impossible, and who are now studying at one.
We will also tell you honestly when a rank genuinely does not reach what you are hoping for — but that is a conversation worth having with the actual data in front of you.