<p>I just have to say that applying to more than 7 schools is not completely ridiculous for everyone; it actually makes sense for many candidates. Yeah, you do have to pay app. fees and all that, and write extra essays, but if you are willing to do all that, it can pay off in the long run. People who are fishing for the best fin aid package often do that (that's what I plan to do-apply to about 10-12 colleges); apply to a couple reaches, several matches, and a few safeties just to see which schools will give me the most money. That one extra school you don't apply to might just be the school that gives you an extra 20,000 a year in scholarship money. However, if you are applying to all 8 ivies plus 8 other top-tier schools just for the sake of trying to get in, and they are all hail mary high reaches, then that is ridiculous.</p>
<p>why is applying to more than 10 absurd? I want to keep my options open and I can afford it. I plan on applying to 15. Most are common app and many waive the application fee if I apply online.</p>
<p>No more than 8</p>
<p>I applied to 13 colleges (4 of them were UC's so just one application). In retrospect it is kind of crazy to apply to so many different schools considering I wasn't accepted at half. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't apply to reach schools, right? I was rejected from Cornell, Yale, and Princeton, but I was wait-listed at Harvard.</p>
<p>i am applying to 5 private and about 3 or 4 public (Universities of California schools)
I dont plan to ED any of them because I am still not sure which college i really really want to go to and because financial is a big part in my decision.
should i really do ED?</p>
<p>I'm applying to 12, if you count all 3 or 4 UC's as one application :)</p>
<p>I'm an international student from the UK and these are all the uni's i'm applying to...</p>
<p>College Applications
ED: Columbia College (1st Choice)
Choice #2: NYU
Stanford
UChicago (EA)
Princeton
Williams
Georgetown
UPenn
Brown
Harvard
Oxford
Cambridge</p>
<p>Safety Schools:
UCL
LSE
Warwick
Tufts
UToronto</p>
<p>Which schools waiver application fees if you apply online?
Also, what if you cannot obtain a fee waiver from your school... can you directly ask the admissions to waiver it?</p>
<p>many of my classmate tend to apply 20.</p>
<p>Applied to 12, and accepted to 9. Of the 9 accepted to, 5 were in the top 10, 4 were ivy league.</p>
<p>Accepted to the following in the top ten or ivy leauge. Brown, Columbia,
Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Duke</p>
<p>My son applied to 20 colleges - all regular decision, no EA/ED.
He was accepted to 14 (two Ivys), rejected by 6.
He's a freshman at Harvard.</p>
<p>i'm applying to 8</p>
<p>nine colleges. but two are uc's so they really count as one application</p>
<p>I wasn't aware of that. Where do I find that - pls write couple of example colleges. thx</p>
<p>2 for my son...
he really only wants to go to Rose so why apply to a bunch of colleges he has no interest in</p>
<p>i have not decided</p>
<p>Well, I am from China and I just felt unsettled for being rejected, so I will apply to more than 15 colleges.</p>
<p>Looks like all internationals like to apply to 15 colleges. I too am applying to 15.</p>
<p>applying for 8. my HS places a maximum limit of 10 colleges.</p>