fgor
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
@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.
Can confirm - happened to me multiple times! That's how I ended up with my first boots being both too big in length, and FAR too wide in last/volume size. For boots #2, I went initially to a place I'd heard good things about, was prepared to buy a boot that day, but received poor service. The fitter didn't even do a shell fit and didn't seem to take me seriously. Luckily by then I'd learned a bit more about boot fitting so I left and started looking further afield. I've spoken to men who reckon that bootfitter is good and couldn't believe I had such a poor experience - "are you sure you were dealing with <name>?" (answer: yes) - but I think because I am female and look young, he didn't treat me like a serious customer at all.
Luckily the next place I went was top notch, so they got all my money