How many college apps did your child send out?

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<p>We know someone who got into MIT but got zero money from UMD-CP (in-state). ??? </p>

<p>Gluckie, have your D get on the College Board website and start entering her criteria for colleges and see what the search comes up with. It may be a large group of schools, but when she starts reading about them, it may help her start to get some preferences in mind.
[Find</a> a College - College Search - Majors and Careers](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>

<p>If she’s a junior, she should take the SAT sooner rather than later, and get any SAT-II requirements done at the end of the relevant courses. Some schools won’t require them, but some will want one or two. Georgetown prefers three, and I don’t know if Princeton still wants three. I think those are the only holdouts left.</p>

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<p>rockville - thanks for suggesting the book…we had one a couple years back, but i couldn’t lay my hands on it right now. I will get one of those this week. Thanks.</p>

<p>PizzaGirl - Thanks. I get it now. I didn’t realize the selection process was so quirky, but now see how that can be. Having never been through any of this before, I find all these posts very enlightening.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone else who left a post. I’m reading them all. :-)</p>

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<p>gluckie - college admissions is one of my favorite spectator sports! :)</p>

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<p>One! visited 10/1. applied 10/31, accepted 11/4. Her friends are jealous and she is on cruise control, enjoying Sr year. </p>

<p>at the beginning of Jr year, I had told her I would pay for 6 maximum, as she needed to focus.</p>

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<p>@nj2011mom, your D must be an academic super-star , or she is aiming/shooting too low? Yes, current UNC Chancellor (Holden Thrope) applied only UNC and got in. That was back in the 80’s. He could have easily gotten into Harvard, or other Ivy schools, had he applied. The college admission is like a zoo today, with average number of application per student at 5, 6, 12. Some as high as 50. Yes, I have seen a student boasting 50 applications! That is insane by any standard…</p>

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<p>One way to apply to only one school is to apply early, get in, and then never submit the regular decision applications to other schools.</p>

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<p>Curmudgeon - printed out the xiggi info that was linked to that thread. Will have daughter read it when she gets home. Will do the other stuff you talked about as well. SAT is in a couple of weeks I think. I’m wondering if she shouldn’t have just waited now to get in an English class which starts second semester since that was her weakest area on the ACT.</p>

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<p>Curious how an applicant could apply to 50(!) colleges, given that the Common App limits to a total of only 20 applications.</p>

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<p>I guess you could send 50 paper applications.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins admissions information says two SATIIs are required and a third is optional, but when we visited, the adcom said three were necessary.</p>

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<p>Not all schools use the common ap. My son applied to 10 schools and only 2 were on the Common ap.</p>

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<p>@kxc1961 - she is an outstanding student and likely could have gotten into an Ivy (Cornell was at top of her list as of 9/1), however she wants to be a vet. After speaking with our vet and taking a course at Cornell last summer, so she realized that Animal Science is what she wants to major in and that, in itself, narrows the choice down to state schools. After visiting our state school (Rutgers) and speaking with the pre-vet advisor, she realized it was the right school due to undergrad research opportunities and its reputation to vet schools. (the financial aspect doesn’t hurt either!)</p>

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We got a new guide for SecondToGo and he literally did this … and it really didn’t take that long. After cutting down geography my son thumbed through the guide and created an initial list based on majors, size of school, and some other parameters (eliminated commuter schools for example). This initial list was huge, about 100 schools, and included quite a few surprises … schools I had never heard of or had little idea about the specifics of the school. I then entered all the schools into a spreadsheet (one per row) and added about 20 columns for additional data (SATs, GPAs, location, size, public/private, etc) … and filled it out for a couple schools. I showed the spreashseet to SecondToGo who took it and changed it to his liking and chasing data for about 30 schools which eventually led to his list of 11 schools to which he applied.</p>

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<p>I just ordered the Princeton Review Guide to Colleges, so we are going to do that too.</p>

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<p>After we decided on a potential major (neuroscience), location (northeast/PA/NY), and campus type (city of any size), he submitted four applications.</p>

<p>One ED (not accepted)
One RA (accepted into honors college)
Two RD (waiting)</p>

<p>I thought the 1 ED and 1 or more RA was a good strategy. If the ED came through, we’re done. Having another early notification option (rolling) meant by Christmas, S was going to have a bird in the hand. Now waiting to see if the others are better than the RA.</p>

<p>Also used a spreadsheet like 3togo which determined our candidates and visits.</p>

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<p>I have a vet school recommendation - Juaniata in PA I think. Good friends daughter was prevet and she’s on to Vet school now. They have an outstanding placement rate.</p>

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<p>ldinct- you are right that Juniata grads have a very high acceptance rate into vet schools…also med schools!</p>

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<p>Rutgers had 100% vet school admission last year. 22 for 22 (there are approximately 75 animal science grads each year). That number was the tipping point for my D.</p>