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<p>The way I see it is that certain essays are recyclable, and…well, if you spend 30 hours on essays for Harvard and Yale, you could spend a day or two over the weekend/cut back an hour of sleep a night for a month or so and apply to quite a few reaches, all with well crafted essays and research. It’s a bit more to organize and handle, but it’s possible. If you write phenomenal essays for HYPS, you might get rejected; but if you have phenomenal essays for HYPS+5 other reach schools, you have a better shot. Maybe an applicant’s a quirky, intelligent, successful oboe player, and applies to HYP, but HYP’s already accepted however many quirky, intelligent, successful oboe players as they need. The applicant has a better shot at being accepted to another top tier college who might not’ve already filled their spot for quirky, intelligent, successful oboe players. </p>
<p>You know what I mean?</p>