<p>Hey guys.</p>
<p>I'm planning to apply to around 15 schools, and I was wondering if that's usually considered to be too many schools. How many schools are all of you applying to?</p>
<p>as long as you can write all the essays and pay all the fees, its not too many.</p>
<p>I personally have 18 on my list, as well as 5 UK universities. But I may narrow it down too… anyone have any advice on this?</p>
<p>Ds’s school recommends 8-10. More than 12 seems pretty ridiculous if youve crafted a smart list of reaches, matches and safeties.</p>
<p>You might want to think more closely about each school and knock about five of them off of your list. It’s a pretty insane number.</p>
<p>These days, its not an outrageous number.</p>
<p>Python38, are you saying that you have 23 total (18 US + 5 British), or that your list of 18 schools is including the 5 British schools?</p>
<p>I have two foreign schools on my list, which would make my list of American universities 13.</p>
<p>I don’t think so. I applied to 6 out of the 8 Ivies and only got into two. If I had only chosen my top schools as my “reaches”, I would be going to Auburn University instead of Dartmouth which I feel a lot better about now. Apply to any school which you want to go to and have safeties you wouldn’t mind going to.</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask your parents if it’s OK to spend that kind of money on fees and testing reports. I’d tell my kids that any more than 5-6 would be too many. </p>
<p>The VAST number of college attending seniors apply to one MAYBE two colleges.</p>
<p>And here’s a test for your integrity: ask your parents to inquire about the no. of schools most of your HS classmates are applying to. Your GC will tell them truthfully. </p>
<p>Sure some kids/schools routinely apply to 10+. IMHO, it’s a waste of resources because of indecision and poor college searching. I’d rather give the money to a needy charity.</p>
<p>I am only allowed to apply to 8 MAX. I will prob apply to 6 or 7. =]</p>
<p>Anything more than 12 is overkill.</p>
<p>23 total. 4 of these have no application fee if I apply online; also, the British ones only cost £17 (in total) to apply to. I will probably need to narrow down my list, though.</p>
<p>As for asking my parents… well, due to my family circumstances together with the fact I’m homeschooled, I have to handle not only my studies but also applying to university myself. I’m also paying the fees out of my savings.</p>
<p>Your money or not python, may I make this suggestion? With a little effort, I’d bet you could halve your list. This is what I mean about indecision at the present moment. Rank your reaches, rank your probables and rank your safeties. Then delete the bottom half of those three lists.</p>
<p>Only a suggestion. Good luck either way you choose.</p>
<p>If you’re willing to pay the fees, then it doesn’t really matter/</p>
<p>I have so many on my list because, as an international seeking FA, I especially want to broaden my options as much as possible. A lot of those colleges are on my list partly because they have a tendency to give good FA to internationals.</p>
<p>I do think that applying to more schools gives you a higher chance of getting into one, because there’s always a certain amount of luck (albeit maybe a small amount) involved in admissions. I don’t mind paying an extra $90 (or however much it costs, up to a reasonable amount) now if it gives me a chance at another college where I might get a full/near-full ride (which I am likely to need), which is money saved in the long term. Rather like an investment, if you see what I mean - I mean, you pay the application fee and so on for each college, and it may or may not pay off in the future.</p>
<p>The UK universities are cheaper both in application and tuition fees, but, unfortunately, they aren’t so accepting of either homeschooled or younger students as the American colleges. They also require me to decide my major immediately, which is something I’m very unsure about.</p>
<p>I feel better knowing you’re homeschooled and not relying on some beleaguered guidance counselor to process 23 apps for you. Otherwise, I would think it’s lazy and selfish.</p>
<p>I did 18. 9 for free though… however, it was hell doing all the applications, and don’t forget submitting all the tax info too.</p>
<p>I’m going to do a similar number (right now I have a list of 15, but might knock a few off the list with visits) because all of them really interest me and I want to get the best aid available. As a middle-class student of a family which has saved a modest amount for college, need-based aid may help my financing but will probably not be enough on its own, so I’m applying to a bunch of safeties with decent merit aid as well as matches/reaches which are more focused on need. I’ve tried going through and getting rid of ones I’m not particularly interested in- at one point my list was of about twenty schools- but of the schools remaining, I have a deep desire to go to them and/or have a slightly lesser desire to go to them plus stand a chance at getting good merit aid. If you have advice on how to narrow these schools down further and put less pressure on my guidance counselor, I’d be glad to hear it, but as it is I can’t seem to reduce my number of options more than I already have. Thoughts?</p>