<p>How many colleges are/did you apply to?</p>
<p>This seems to be question of the day...</p>
<p>About 10 probably, possibly higher. I have a serious need to compare financial aid packages. I'm also likely getting fee waivers, and even if I don't, most of my colleges are free to apply to on-line, so it won't cost me much at all.</p>
<p>Where can you get fee waivers? And how do you qualify? It's not a big deal for me, but it allows me to go after 8-10 schools rather than 3-4.</p>
<p>Fee waivers are usually given to students in severe financial need. Check with your counselor, but if you don't already know about them, it's likely (but not definite) that you don't qualify. Usually students who will qualify for them are told early on.</p>
<p>See if any of your colleges do non-financially</a> based waivers/free on-line applications.</p>
<p>Oh, and the standard methodology can be found [url=<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/calenfees/feewaivers.html%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/calenfees/feewaivers.html]here[/url</a>]. You actually can get more than four, but it's complicated and I'm too lazy to explain everything right now. Just check with your counselor. :)</p>
<p>My school kinda limits the number of schools we apply to to 7.... Darn understaffed college office.</p>
<p>8 for me. About 5 of them had free applications or really cheap ones.</p>
<p>11 Schools, got in 7. I spent around 500 $ on apps lol.</p>
<p>For the schools I'm definitely applying to (8 right now), two (Smith and Mount Holyoke) are free to apply to on-line. I have a waiver for Wells, and I'm going to ask at the others when I visit this fall. (Any advice on how to do that? I know people do it all the time, but I'm shy.) So, even if I only get four fee waivers, that still leaves me with paying for just one college (assuming the list doesn't grow, which it will), in which case I'll of course pick the cheapest.</p>
<p>Among other schools I'm considering, Rochester, Binghamton, and Wellesley are free on-line. A lot of popular schools are, including:</p>
<p>Binghamton
Case Western Reserve
Colgate
Hamilton
Hobart & William Smith
Kenyon
Lewis & Clark
Marquette
New College of Florida
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Simmons
St. John's (NM/MD and NY)
Sweet Briar (I might consider applying)
Union
Washington & Jefferson
Willamette
Wooster
Xavier
Chicago (legacies)
Pittsburgh (before certain dates)
Bryn Mawr (if you donate to a charity)</p>
<p>ETA: I should say how jealous I am of all of you freshman applicants who don't need to pay for transcripts. I need to pay my current college $6 for transcripts to include with each application. Doesn't sound like much, but it's going to add up.</p>
<p>Applied to 7, 1 free app, got into 6. Darn MIT!!! lol j/k j/k.</p>
<p>alright cause i have 5 choices so far and im not so sure if that would be a reasonable amount or not.</p>
<p>6 schools in all</p>
<p>I'm planning on applying to at least 13, and I could hit the 20's. I'm borderline at just about everywhere so I'm applying to a lot of schools. My counselor said the person who had my class rank last year ended up applying to 17 schools, eventually winding up at the University of Chicago. Most students at my school apply to 6.</p>
<p>20? OMG i would kill myself.</p>
<p>i'm gonna stick with 6 or 7</p>
<p>Thankfully about half of the 20 are common app.</p>
<p>I'm guessing I will apply to 10-15 schools. I may be able to rule out a few before application times comes, or I may get in Early Decision which would mean I'd only have to apply to one. :)</p>
<p>I applied to two...Purdue and Notre Dame...wanted engineering close to home at a school with good sports...and being from Michigan, there was no way I was becoming a Wolverine if I got into Purdue or UIUC. When I got into Purdue I didn't bother with Illinois. </p>
<p>Grad School...just one, Berkeley</p>
<p>I had a very painless application experience and I got everything I wanted out of college...it's the best way</p>
<p>I've "trimmed down" my list to this.</p>
<p>Boston U
Carleton
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Claremont McKenna
Cornell
Duke
Emory
George Washington
Haverford
Illinois
Indiana
Miami
Michigan
NYU
Richmond
Tufts
Tulane
USC
Wake Forest
Wisconsin</p>
<p>and a couple others I'm forgetting.</p>
<p>:/ When I see lists like that, I always just think people don't know what they're looking for. Will it really be any easier to decide between the ones you get accepted to if you don't know what you're looking for? Most of those schools aren't really like the others.</p>
<p>Then again, I still have a long list of "maybe" schools, but I know I'll probably only add two or three of them to the "definite" list, if that.</p>
<p>is applying really time consuming?</p>