@schroscat You will make a fantastic roommate for someone! Just the right amount of weird!
@Alamom Haha, thanks! I would hope that I’d be a good roommate; weird lives create weird people 
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34 schools is crazy.
I applied to 8, including 3 Ivies, and that seemed like a TON for me.
@whitespace For me, at least, I started with a few…and then I got scared…so I added a few more…and a few more, until I got to 16. Technically, I applied to 17, but withdrew that application because I applied on accident.
How do you apply on accident haha @schroscat
Was it like a Cornell college and Cornell University type thing lol?
“I applied on accident”
How does that even happen lol @schroscat
Applied to 17 as well. My counselor was NOT pleased…but hey, it’s a once in a lifetime (kinda) experience, so why not go all out? :O)
I think if I had told my counselor I was applying to 17, she would have had to sit me down.
One of my friends applied to 20, but he’s a Canadian citizen so he did 8 in Canada, 10 in the US, and 2 in Europe to get financial packages from all over.
@graceann @whitespace STORY TIME!
Okay, so I applied to Wesleyan University in CT; there are a BUNCH of Wesleyans in this world, I have learned. So I went through the application process in December, and it was all good. During this time, I began to get emails from Wesleyan College in GEORGIA, and I was too lazy to click the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of the email. Anyway, I kept receiving emails from WC, and eventually, they sent one over for scholarship opportunities; the header was: Wesleyan Office of Admissions. So, I clicked on it, and lo and behold: A SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION. And, me, with extreme sleep deprivation, decided to follow the link, because, hey, why not?
I go through the entire application, and the entire time I was like, “This is so strange. Why are they asking me for my schedule? Why do they want my SAT? Pssh…maybe they just need it again for the scholarship!” I wrote a FANTASTIC “Why Wesleyan?” response, attached two resumes, and my application was complete. I don’t think I could have been more proud of it.
A few minutes later, I receive an email: “Thank you for applying to Wesleyan College!” And I’m obviously perplexed…and the fog began to clear…whoops! I applied to another college.
The entire time I was under the assumption that I applied for a scholarship for WU. God, help me.
My counselor DID sit me down & tried to convince me not to do it. She was especially against me applying to a lot of the top tier schools (she constantly repeated that I wouldn’t get in) – but I just went ahead and applied, anyways lol
Oh man… I understand now. It took me a month to figure out even the Cornell thing. The Wesleyans were always too confusing for me to sort thought.
My counselor is the opposite. He thinks I can get in literally anywhere. I think hes a little bit crazy
@Grapess well, here’s to hoping you prove her wrong and get into all of them.
@VaishS That’s so much better tho. My counselor literally told me stories of every rejection she heard of/experienced & told me not to bother applying. 8->
I remember freshman year: I walked into the guidance office, tears in my eyes, scared out of my mind that I couldn’t get into Harvard because I had a 99.76 average. My counselor told me no way in hell I could get into an Ivy.
So I applied to six of them.
I hope I prove him wrong
I think it was because no one from my school really applies big so I think he was just excited that someone was trying
@schroscat your counselor sounds like a butthead.
Last year, I pulled three B-s and then I was the one saying I wouldn’t get into any college out of my state, and my counselor was the on picking me up… so it goes the other way around, too.