<p>Greetings from Class of 07':</p>
<p>I'll be attending Hopkins in the fall with one of my friends, who applied to 31 schools. I'm not kidding. 31 schools.</p>
<p>Viva- I sure hope so... I guess I just want to keep my options open, but if University of Michigan accepts me early on, that will dramatically affect the rest of my applications.</p>
<p>No way... looking to apply to seven, max. Brown, Middlebury, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, Beloit, and MAYBE UMich or Yale.</p>
<p>Right now I have close to a dozen, I might drop 1 or 2 safeties/matches:</p>
<p>Reach (for everyone, really):
Olin
Caltech
MIT
Harvey Mudd
Stanford
UCB</p>
<p>Match/Safety (effectively safeties)
UCSD
UCSB
UCSC
Cal Poly-SLO
SDSU</p>
<p>My counselor really likes UCLA and Rice too...</p>
<p>I'll try and trim my list a bit (thank god for Family Connection), but I've seen some good suggestions to trim your list. First and foremost, imagine if you got accepted everywhere you apply. Any you wouldn't even consider attending, cut from your list (keep a safety/match, of course). Anywhere you can't picture yourself actually living for 4 or more years, remove. Obviously, visit as many as possible, and try to get a feel for the place if it would be a good fit or not.</p>
<p>Someone at my school (~3.3 UW) applied to 22 schools, mostly because his mom suggested a lot and he didn't care too much. He got accepted to 21 (rejected at UCSB, the one he really wanted to get into ;)), which made things fun for him. Just imagine trying to decide among 7+ colleges that say they want you to attend.</p>