@gingerjess, be aware that the bootfitter may profile you as a candidate for a comfort fit. This is your first boot purchase. You are young and female. The bootfitter may push you to buy a boot that would satisfy most young, female, first purchasers. Just beware. It's a thing. It happened to me multiple times, with highly recommended bootfitters. It took a special bootfitter to realize I really meant what I said I wanted. I was old, female, and relatively new to skiing when those other bootfitters put me into boots-too-wide in the forefoot, too tall over the instep for my low-volume feet, and too long, with wide heels.
Oh there's another term I forgot in that list above.
volume: This is the word for how tall the boot shell is over your foot. It also includes how much air space there will be on top of your foot right where your lower leg rises upward. If your boot has too much volume for your foot's anatomy there will be air there, and you will have trouble tilting the skis to edge them with your feet. There is very little range of motion for your foot as you tilt it inside the boot, or as the boot/ski tries to tilt due to the forces of skiing, so most folks don't pay much attention to it. But controlling this tilt is a precision control thing which you will need if you want good control over your skis. If the boot has too much volume for your foot, and leaves air in there, then when you side-slip your skis will lose their edge despite what your feet do and leave you feeling insecure about sideslipping. This happens while making turns too, but so much is going on in turns that most people don't notice that the loss of edge control is coming from boot fit (volume mis-match). Side-slipping can be used to diagnose this issue. I speak from personal experience -- my feet are very low volume, and it took 6-7 boot purchases, all from different bootfitters who had great reputations, for me to find a bootfitter who paid attention to this anatomical issue of mine. Most men do not have low volume feet. Many women do. Just sayin'.
