<p>MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
CalTech</p>
<p>Are the main ones I’m applying to. Although if I don’t get into a school early I’ll probably apply to all of the Ivies, some top 20’s, Lehigh, and 2 safeties.</p>
<p>@IBfailure: your going to spend 60 bucks to just get the number 10 really?</p>
<p>@hanana: If you can’t even remember some of them do you honestly think your going to go there? </p>
<p>Me personally-5 and I think that’s a lot.</p>
<p>I’m a Junior, and I’m only really considering a feww.</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Charlotte
Wake Forest Univ
Duke
And an out of state private school like Stanford or UCLA. I don’t think I’d end up going to either, but I’d still apply just for the heck of it.</p>
<p>6, but I got accepted ED, so it ended up being only 2 applications submitted, one of which was free because of National Merit Semi status :)</p>
<p>Protip: even if you finish early, don’t submit your RD apps until you hear back from ED or first-choice EA schools… a bunch of my friends did this and wasted $200-$300.</p>
<p>I have narrowed it down to “only” 20.</p>
<p>[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>]Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
[</em>]Cal Poly Pomona
[<em>]San Diego State University
[</em>]UM Ann Arbor
[<em>]UT Austin
[</em>]San Jose State University
[<em>]UC San Diego
[</em>]UC Santa Barbara
[<em>]UC Los Angeles
[</em>]UC Berkeley
[<em>]Georgia Tech
[</em>]UI Urbana-Champaign
[<em>]Princeton
[</em>]Caltech
[<em>]MIT
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]Stanford
[</em>]Carnegie Mellon
[<em>]University of Southern California
[</em>]Harvey Mudd
[/ul]</p>
<p>Update: I have got it down to just 12! This is a good list.</p>
<p>[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>]Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
[</em>]San Diego State University
[<em>]UT Austin
[</em>]San Jose State University
[<em>]UC Los Angeles
[</em>]UC Berkeley
[<em>]Princeton
[</em>]Caltech
[<em>]MIT
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]Stanford
[</em>]Carnegie Mellon
[/ul]</p>
<p>I have 2… :o</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s healthy, OP. :P</p>
<p>I’m applying to nine schools and the perception of my peers seems to be that nine is pushing it.</p>
<p>The only thing is, I want to double major, and there are only two schools that have a strong enough program in those two areas (music and humanities). Why do people apply to so many colleges? Maybe I am just ignorant :S</p>
<p>I started with under ten, and narrowed it down to five:</p>
<p>-Hollins University
-Florida Southern College
-Eckerd College
-Rollins College
-University of South Florida (absolute last resort, finanically)</p>