<p>Yeah. Just wondering, or at least 6+ out of 8? If you did, how did it go with acceptances? Do you regret doing that?</p>
<p>I'm applying to all 8 (fall 2007).
As long as you can afford the application fee... i don't see a problem with it.
If you don't have a "dream school", apply to many schools and then decide where you want to go based on where you're accepted.... Few acceptances are always better than total rejection.</p>
<p>A Columbia Univ. representative came to my high school campus and basically said that if a student is found applying to more than 4 Ivys, it looks terrible. Apparently, the AdComm sees this move and assumes the candidate is not serious about attending their school. The rep also said that many AdComm talk to each other about their applicants [though I highly doubt this].</p>
<p>so does that means when you apply to a college, the adcom will know all the other colleges youre applying to?</p>
<p>although the columbia rep did say that committees do talk to each other, i highly doubt that committees of different schools would gossip over applicants during lunch. </p>
<p>i don't know. where you apply is your choice ultimately.</p>
<p>I know people at my school who are applying to the top 15-25 schools in US News (which of course includes all the Ivies) plus one or two safeties. This is the craziest (and most expensive) schnazz I have ever seen in my life. What's equally loony is that, in these cases, the parents are completely behind their kids' go-crazy-with-apps decisions.</p>
<p>Maybe I should mention cross-Ivy-adcom discussions. Although little else has been discovered to so much as sway these people's decisions by just a little bit.</p>
<p>I'm applying to 6, and I know what I want.</p>
<p>This just in..</p>
<p>My school's record, which was just made with the Class of '06, is..</p>
<p>A whopping 60 applications.</p>
<p>Which of course means that the person probably had his/her choice of any school (s)he wanted since the family must've been incredibly rich in order to even pay for all those fees.</p>
<p>A harvard rep came to my school and told us that ivy league schools discuss applicants with each other and pass and trade them around. I kind of didn't believe her, but I suppose it's a possibility.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm suprised they do that. I wouldn't apply to all the ivies though.</p>
<p>Yeah. So I guess the Columbia rep who came to my school + the Harvard rep who went to airclear's school both said the same thing. =/ I highly doubt they go out for tea and discuss EVERY applicant -- but both reps did they their schools discuss applicants & whatnot.</p>
<p>i applied to 5 ivies (penn, cornell, princeton, harvard, yale) and to 2 non-ivy elites (hopkins, mit)</p>
<p>got accepted to 3, waitlisted at 2, am at one of the ivies now, perfectly happy</p>
<p>stats pls?</p>
<p>A Columbia adcom looked me in the eye and told me that they do not know what other schools applicants apply to.</p>
<p>They don't talk to each other about particular applicants. You guys misinterpreted.</p>
<p>if you want my stats, ask in pm</p>
<p>i'm a sophomore at penn, so my stats may not be so relevant to current applicants, but willing to help...</p>
<p>My D was accepted to 6 of 6. Harvard 09.</p>
<p>"This just in..</p>
<p>My school's record, which was just made with the Class of '06, is..</p>
<p>A whopping 60 applications.</p>
<p>Which of course means that the person probably had his/her choice of any school (s)he wanted since the family must've been incredibly rich in order to even pay for all those fees."</p>
<p>You don't have to be "incredibly rich" to apply to 60 schools...
thats about $3000.... compared with the cost of tution that isnt all that much
plus there are schools which dont require app fee</p>
<p>you just need a lot of time</p>
<p>People here are frugal. </p>
<p>You don't spend $3000 (and I'm sure it's even more than that with most applications being over $50; a friend applying to 18 schools says her costs have broken $2000) unless you have several hundred thousand to spare or are doing something completely worth the money (applying to 60 colleges is not).</p>
<p>And this being among the top 5 richest counties in the nation, that's not rare.</p>
<p>Oh, and at my school, you have to pay money to get your transcripts/mid-year reports/all other paperwork sent out, and that's not including the price for envelopes, stamps, and the like that the school additionally charges for.</p>
<p>Which probably means that the person probably isn't so poor that (s)he had all application fees waived, since the paperwork-mailing fee isn't waived in any manner. The price rises exponentially with every additional college reported, so I'd estimate my high school charging at least an additional several thousand dollars for those services.</p>
<p>$3000 is a lot to spend on application fees.</p>