<p>I also took advantage of score reporting each time I took a test by sending new scores to different prospective schools, so I only ended up paying for about 16 reports.</p>
<p>9-12 seems perfectly reasonable for those applying to the most competitive schools. Above that, and you’re just adding unnecessary safeties, as well as extending yourself over so many essays that the quality can’t possibly be terribly high.</p>
<p>I applied to seven in America, one “real” school in England, and then four others in England because it was no more work, it was the same price as applying to one more, and I thought I had really low chances of being accepted at the one.</p>