All depends on how you grow them, really. If you have good intense HID lighting, then you can have short tight nodes and control when to flower the plant based on how much room you have to grow them.
For example, I have 72inches of height to work with in my cabinet. After factoring in the distance of the pot, light, and hood, I could grow a 36" tall plant. So knowing that most indicas double their height in flowering, flowering a 16" indica would yield a 32" final height. And it did! Sativas are known for tripling their height when they flower, so I would have put a sativa plant into flower at 12".
Medium height = indica/sativa. Expect the plant to double in size when put into flower.
Medium/tall height = 80%sativa/20%indica. Expect the plant to double or triple in height.