<p>I'm applying to about 17 to 20 schools. 7 of them are actually tedious supplements. The rest however are the exact same. Maybe a short answer some where here and there. I was thinking of writing my essay the main one now. Letting a teacher review it when school starts, and then I'll be done with that. But how long did it take you guys if you did this many schools.</p>
<p>I cant been start the common app yet because theres info I must get from my guidance counselor first so half is done.</p>
<p>um, why are you applying to 20 schools? How are you going to write essays on why you want to go to a specific school? But anyway, to answer your question, it depends on the school you are applying to. Stanford and Brown have pretty brutal supplements that take at least a full day each to make them decent in my opinion, while others like Harvard or WUSTL take 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Because I had a bad freshmen year and missed like a quarter of the year so I know it will hurt me</p>
<p>Shorten your list. That’s ridiculous. In my opinion, you’re attempting to game the system (apply to as many schools as you can to increase your chances of getting accepted to a “good” one), but the truth is, there’s no way that anyone can feel equally passionate about that many. Furthermore, there are probably far too many “reach” schools included. Be realistic here; visit schools in which you’re truly interested and narrow the list down to 6-8 schools. Otherwise, you’re wasting your time and money.</p>
<p>Zonis makes a good point though. Certain schools (the infamous University of Chicago comes to mind) require extremely well-thought-out, creative essays that could theoretically take weeks to perfect. Some kids can bang them out in a couple of hours. It really depends on the person. BUT, if you do end up applying to that many schools, I’d give a couple of months to get everything completely taken care of. I still, however, urge you to stand back and take an objective look at your college list.</p>
<p>I’m getting all fee waivers so it isn’t that much of a problem. Most applications besides brown, Cornell Princeton and upenn look easy. Columbia doesn’t even require additonal essays, niether does NYU or BU for that matter.</p>
<p>On my list I prob have six highly selective schools.</p>
<p>I can probably limit my list to 15, I have like 4 backups already.</p>
<p>lol you make it sound like it’s a struggle to bring your list down to 15 schools…I hope you are a good writer or have no life and can spend all your time on applications because colleges do care about your responses to questions like “why this college.”</p>
<p>Lol I am a good writer. A college professor and numerous teachers have said that I am an excellent writer. Its hard to limit them because I really love all of them and I know a lot are going to be denials, but I know I have a chance to some and I don’t want to live with that, well what if I could have gotten into somewhere better, you knoww.</p>
<p>I have no life besides extra curriculars too, I just get lazy sometimes.</p>