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<li>and got in ed</li>
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<p>10 colleges. I'm crazy, I know.
Yale
Stanford
Dartmouth
Cornell
Tufts
Brandeis
UC Berkeley OOS
UMich
University of Washington
University of Arizona</p>
<p>2 super reaches, 3 reaches, 4 matches, 1 super safety. I applied to every single university RD. I like to give myself options. :P</p>
<p>caliboi---my name suits me well? huh?</p>
<p>University of California, Berkeley (OOS)
University of California, Los Angeles (OOS)
University of California, Santa Cruz (OOS)
University of Southern California
Pomona College
Pitzer College
Occidental College
Tufts University
SUNY - Binghamton
SUNY - Albany</p>
<p>I applied/will apply to
2: super safety
4: pretty likely
2: good match/slight reach
2: reach</p>
<p>wow, i just realized that it's TEN schools! i guess it's because my parents took my list and added on some safeties, except they called them "good schools"... you know how it is.</p>
<p>I WAS going to apply to 10 schools... but I got in Early Decision so I'm pulling the rest out.</p>
<p>is there a limit for applying? What if u have no clue who will take u in?</p>
<p>I'm only applying to 5 and it's stressful enough... i can't imagine how people can apply to 15 schools?!? that's a ridiculous amount of work.</p>
<p>I only applied to two schools:</p>
<p>Tulane
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>GOT IN VANDERBILT ED1</p>
<p>15 schools
4 reaches
4 semi-reaches
3 should get ins
4 safeties</p>
<p>accepted to my 4 safeties already :)</p>
<p>i was going to apply to 15 schools - 11 in the US were reaches, 3 in Canada were safeties, and 1 in the UK but i was accepted at yale EA so now its down to 5 for US colleges. still applying to 3 of the best universities in Canada because of school-nominations for full-ride scholarships tho...</p>
<p>harvard
princeton
brown
upenn
mit</p>
<p>15 schools would definitely have been a ridiculous amount of work...</p>
<p>yeah. tell me about it.</p>
<p>15 schools is ridiculous! Application fees would be like $1000... I'm doing 7 and I thought that was a lot...</p>
<p>i know. i just figured with the competition this year i might as well apply to a ton and see what happens..</p>
<p>I applied to 14.
5 UK (offer from three)
2 Canada
7 US</p>
<p>I think I would have applied to more, probably, but it was just too much. I took out about four from my first list.
Sending my application, sat scores and toefl scores...yes a lot of money AND stress, one more reason to cry when I get my rejection letters...</p>
<p>14 or 15 not sure</p>
<p>essays are killing me most want diffrent ones.. awwww</p>
<p>I had 10 planned out, but I got into the 2 schools I applied EA, so I'm only doing 3 more. I pulled out 5, and now I'm just going to do the other 5.</p>
<p>7 schools:
2 super safeties,
3 matches,
2 reaches.</p>
<p>Applying to schools you have zero interest in is unethical. While in a strict statistical sense, because of the yield, you are not really taking someone else's spot, in reality you might be and it might be your friend in school. Many colleges have quotas on schools or regions. </p>
<p>Here is the strategy that I recommend. Pick your number one school where you really want to go and apply ED/EA if they have it. Apply to 2 or 3 reach schools RD and submit those as early as you can so the admissions committee has them in hand to work on them. Prepare your match and safety schools to go out but don't submit them until after your ED/EA decision is received. If you get in, then your work is done and you dont have to bother any more teachers for recommendations, you save application fees and you have fewer schools to notify that you are withdrawing because of the ED acceptance. </p>
<p>Ideally, 7 or 8 schools is the best. 10 in a case where you are deferred or rejected ED/EA and have to scramble. Beyond that and it looks more like you are unfocused, unprepared, unrealistic and maybe a little bit egotistical.</p>