<p>I’ll echo suzy100 here. There will be schools on my son’s list that will be out of reach financially according to the estimated cost of attendance, even with the automatic scholarships listed on the schools’ websites. But his stats are excellent and if he could win one of the competitive full tuition scholarships, he could go. There’s no way to know ahead of time and no way to get those scholarships if he doesn’t apply. Hence, a larger list.</p>