<p>6 (Duke, Chapel Hill, UT-Knoxville, Brown, Cornell, Yale)</p>
<p>I applied to 4, one for the money(TCNJ), one for the academics(Georgetown), one for location (USanDiego), and one so my dad could brag if his daugther got into an ivy (Columbia). I wish I hadn't applied to Columbia, $75 dollars and 2 hours down the drain. </p>
<p>I don't even know how these peole apply to 20 something schools, that's over $1000 just in application fees! People with money to squander like that probably aren't going to have to worry too much about where they'll go.</p>
<p>There are lots of free applications. Two of mine were free.</p>
<p>I applied to 7</p>
<p>1 safety
1 match/safety
1 reach/match
4 reaches</p>
<p>I was going to apply to another safety, but then I was accepted into my first-choice reach, so I decided against it.</p>
<p>Three, and I'm really glad I didn't apply to more. The financial aid verification process I have to go through right now is terrible. Also, I couldn't imagine applying to any more. Every single essay I wrote for my applications made me extremely stressed and worried, which made me think that what I wrote was terrible. If I had my finished essays lying in front of me right now, I would strain my eyes away just to not see them again.</p>
<p>12... wanted to be able to compare aid packages since colleges aren't exactly generous towards internationals. .. but got in ED with enough aid so had to withdraw the rest!</p>
<p>oh and i only had to pay for a few apps since mose were either free for online applicants or accepted fee waivers.</p>
<p>I applied to 3 schools.. all free applications</p>
<p>In 1968 I applied to one state school and was accepted. My husband did the same. Each of our first three kids applied to 3 schools. Now my fourth has applied to 8! We had to talk her into including 2 safeties, where she was accepted. Now we await the match/reaches. The application process has become crazy, I think.</p>
<p>12+
3 safeties and the remaining "reach" schools. My D wanted options both financially and geographically. Does anyone agree that March is just draggin on?</p>
<p>I applied to 13 in total</p>
<p>Stanford EA
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Penn
Cornell
Williams
Duke
MIT</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UC Davis</p>
<p>I applied to the top colleges knowing that I will not be accepted to all of them (or any of them). I'm hoping I have two to three to choose from come April, since I didn't have a college I fell in love with. I applied to the UCs mainly as safeties, but now I'm really loving Berkeley and I consider it an option that rivals even the top ivies. I've already been accepted to Berkeley and LA, and I probably shouldn't have applied to UC Davis. I also regret applying to Cornell and Williams. </p>
<p>A lot of the schools (Cornell, Williams, Duke), I basically said "what the hell, it's on the common app, let's go for it. I also didn't apply to some schools specifically because they weren't on the common app (Brown). Overall though, I'm happy that I've applied to so many colleges, in the end I believe it was in my best interest.</p>
<p>^ haha. I remember doing that as well. After discovering that a college not too high on my list wasn't on the Common App, I said "screw it" and threw in the towel.</p>
<p>My son applied to 7. NYU, Indiana, Bentley, Fordham, Pittsburgh, Oregon, and Purdue.</p>
<p>Ridiculous.</p>
<p>i applied to 14.. i did coz of being an international seeking aid . which is difficult at all top tier universities also . so had to do it.</p>
<p>Well didn't have much problem with fees coz all 14 accepted my fee waiver request and i never payed them anything...</p>
<p>Also 14 coz its highly difficult to say that more reaches increase ur chances as each is a cap shot at best.
as of safeties i do have sum and matches also.. All in the end is the hope to have a couple of choices at the end of this season...:)</p>
<p>SM</p>
<p>IV4me,
How do you know you are accepted to Berkeley and UCLA? Decisions are not out yet even for ELC students?</p>
<p>Five</p>
<p>One Safety (Southern New Hampshire). I applied here EA simply because it's close and an almost sure admit, I wanted to be in somewhere. And it's a pretty nice school</p>
<p>One Match (St. Anselm). Maybe my #1 choice. Has a lot of things I want, close, good merit aid opportunities, a connection with my high school. </p>
<p>One Reach (Stonehill). Not sure where I stand, I'm below their GPA average/rank and I have poor extras, but I'll see. Edit: Got the letter about 5 minutes after I posted it. I'm in.</p>
<p>Two "Who Knows" (Hampshire, Marlboro): Got in at both it seems (Not sure on Hampshire, got an e-mail but no letter). I wanted to see something different, and their standards are weird so I don't know.</p>
<p>I originally applied to six:
Emerson College
Oklahoma City University
University of Northern Colorado
University of Hartford
Ithaca College
UC Irvine</p>
<p>However, after I was accepted EA at OCU, I never sent my test scores to UCI. I'm going for musical theatre, so at my auditions in LA, I also auditioned for Penn State and Otterbein, which I have since applied to, bringing my total up to 8 schools.</p>
<p>All of you applying to 10-20 schools just because you want to get into "an ivy, any ivy" (and I mean all top tiers, not necessarily ivy only) I think are misguided. It was the stance I took early on, that I absolutely HAD to apply to all of them, because what if the one I didn't apply to was the one that would have accepted me, right?</p>
<p>But that is totally flawed. I researched what each had to offer and I only applied to schools I knew I would actually want to attend. I actually stopped myself from applying to ivies that used the common app because I knew I wouldn't enjoy myself there if I did get in.</p>
<p>I ultimately applied to</p>
<p>Brown
Columbia
Stanford
Wesleyan
Haverford
Oberlin</p>
<p>And I know I would enjoy any or all of them. I think that is what is most important in this process. Not prestige or name. I personally don't see why people salivate over Harvard, one of the most depressed college campuses in the world...</p>
<p>i applied to the following 11</p>
<p>harvard
yale
columbia
stanford
swarthmore
mit
rice
wustl
umich
case western
bu</p>
<p>basically a combination of reaches, semi-reach/match(depends on definition), safety, and absolute scholarship getters. </p>
<p>I liked most of my schools. The scholarship ones not really but until safety it's good. i have many reaches because if i get into harvard, yale, stanford, or mit, i automatically get a four year scholarship from a scholarship committee.</p>
<p>momoney77: I was given a likely letter by the engineering department at UCLA, and I was told I was accepted at Berkeley at my Regents and Chancellors Scholarship Interview</p>