<p>What do you guys think about
1 Safety-SMU
2 Safety/Match-UT,UMICH
7 Reaches-UVA,Georgetown, NYU Stern, Rice, Duke, Cornell, Northwestern</p>
<p>Including my ED and EA schools, I plan to apply to 14. 5 of them will be UC’s which, in a way, minimizes the list to 10 applications.</p>
<p>I plan on applying to 6 schools, distributed as follows:</p>
<p>1 safety -rolling
5 reaches - 2EA, 3 RD</p>
<p>I need decent financial aid, so applying to 11 colleges makes a certain amount of sense, and the ones that I would drop have really good financial aid, so I can’t.</p>
<p>3 Reaches
3 High Match
2 Low Match
3 Safety</p>
<p>I think it’s perfectly possible to have a long list of colleges to apply to and love them all. I know I’d be more than happy to attend any on my list and I’m applying to 10. They’re all reaches but that’s because I’m an international student and I need financial aid and there’s no way of getting a financial safety in the US.</p>
<p>In the UK I’m applying to 4.</p>
<p>10 schools. That means with one common app essay, and assuming that they all have supplements, that’s 11 essays. God damn. Unless supplements sound very similar (and some are honestly), so that cuts it down to 6-7 essays.</p>
<p>6 to 7 essays. Wow. Good luck people.</p>
<p>I’m still not entirely sure, but it’ll be somewhere between 10 and 13 applications. It really depends whether I feel like filling out free applications after getting word back from other schools I’m interested in.</p>
<p>Radddd, your method is flawed. Almost all of the top school supplements I’ve seen have more than one essay - excluding Harvard, Emory, and WashU. I have six applications but fifteen essays.</p>
<p>Do you think schools make a lot of money through admission fees or is the fee representative of the cost of reviewing the application? In other words, is the fee a money-maker?</p>
<p>Suppose one has enough $$ saved to attend the college of his/her choice anywhere in the world. Assuming s/he has decent stats (GPA,SAT) but not necessarily Ivy quality, how many colleges should s/he realistically apply to? (Keep in mind that since s/he is flush with moolah, the app fees are inconsequential.)</p>
<p>“Radddd, your method is flawed. Almost all of the top school supplements I’ve seen have more than one essay - excluding Harvard, Emory, and WashU. I have six applications but fifteen essays.”</p>
<p>Even better. Applying to 10 universities definitely will be alot more stressful than it should.</p>
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<p>I would say that depends entirely on the student and what the students wants in a school. I would say between two and six applications. Then again, I would recommend between two and eight for any student.</p>
<p>As a parent of two college kids (Univ. of Florida, MIT) with two more to go, I understand why more school applications might be advantageous if one is looking for financial aid. I still believe, though, that the overriding consideration should be to apply only to schools you’d attend if accepted. It’s not just about the application fee, the time spent by the applicant/advisor/recommenders, and the essays (clearly the most onerous aspect of applying!), it’s also about wasting the school’s time and affecting the application chances of others who truly want to go to those schools.</p>
<p>3 reaches
2 matches
2 safeties</p>
<p>+1 undecided
= 8</p>
<p>rising senior</p>
<p>6 US
1 Canada</p>
<p>3 schools</p>
<p>1 safety
1 match
1 reach</p>
<p>I’m capped at nine.</p>
<p>4 Reaches.
4 Matches.
1 Safety.</p>
<p>I think it’s decent.</p>
<p>You’re only going to one college. No need to pay application fees for 12.</p>
<p>@jamesford
You can call it prestige-whatevering all you want, but in the real world, credentials matter. Some schools which are understandably “prestigious” offer vast resources, alumni networks, etc. that you won’t find just anywhere.
@jasmaree
If you only paid application fees and applied for 1 school and didn’t get in, you’d be in a heck of a bind.</p>
<p>Doing QB</p>
<p>7 Reaches
3 High matches
3 Matches
2 Safeties </p>
<p>It’s a lot but i guess it’s a bit rough at the moment and it will be until i hear if i’m a QB finalist.</p>