Do colleges see what other colleges you are applying to?

Applying to College
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I have a friend who applied ED to a school and EA to others as well. She got deferred or rejected from all the EA schools and deferred from her ED school. All the EAs were target schools. I heard that it’s because when you apply early decision, other colleges can see that and they see your not committed to their college. Is this true?

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No

3

Someone please confirm this: I’ve read on CC that if u fill out FAFSA, the colleges u put in FAFSA can see the names of the other colleges u entered into FAFSA. And some colleges infer from the order that u list the colleges that that is your order of preference. Some colleges that u listed further down in the order infer that you are a poor yield risk.

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I’ve read to avoid that to alphabetize your schools to avoid looking like you ranked them according to preference .

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Note that some states require you to put in state public on the top of the list for state fund.

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See post 7: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/444756-fafsa-css-can-schools-see-what-other-schools-youre-sending-it-to-p1.html

If I’m applying to some 15 schools, can I group them in pairs of 3 or 4 and create multiple FAFSAs?

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Regardless though, most competitive schools require CSS as well right? And in CSS, the colleges can see which other schools you applied to, correct?

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Not creating multiple FAFSAs, but submit it a couple times with different schools on them.