<p>Better not put all your eggs in one basket.</p>
<p>Anybody just randomly choosing all the prestigious/reach colleges along with your favorites so that you have a broader selection? I mean you can always reuse essays.</p>
<p>I would guess the average CCer would apply to 15...</p>
<p>I’m looking at 10 or 11 right now</p>
<p>MIT
Carnegie Mellon
William and Mary
Virginia Tech
UVa
U of Maryland
Yale
Stanford
Harvard
Michigan-Ann Arbor
UChi</p>
<p>around 12, but maybe one or 2 more or less.
Hope I get into ED and dont have to finish the other 11…</p>
<p>Roughly 20.</p>
<p>I need a good selection of selective schools (the type of environment/people I’m looking for) and schools with good financial aid (I will need a lot of aid).</p>
<p>Thus, I need a broad range so I can find the school that I get into and get good financial aid from.</p>
<p>14</p>
<p>Cornell
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UCSC
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
UMichigan
UWisconsin Madison
Boston U
Colgate U
UMinn Twin Cities
U Iowa - safety
UMass Amherst - safety</p>
<p>Maybe Stanford just for the heck of it, even though my rejection chance is 100%.</p>
<p>I think 11 or 9 depending on ACT scores, maybe more.</p>
<p>My list as of now:</p>
<p>Notre Dame
Texas
UCLA
UNC
UGA
Florida
Clemson
Oregon
SDSU
Cal Poly SLO (might drop)
UCSB (might drop)</p>
<p>my top choices are the first 6 schools that I listed. I think I might add more privates because I’m suddenly interested in doing ROTC, thus making them affordable.</p>
<p>Also considering adding: USD, Auburn, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wake Forest, UVA.</p>
<p>I applied to 29 schools!</p>
<p>Not really, I applied to one school. I got in. That’s where I go.</p>
<p>^I got really scared for a sec…
Where are u going?</p>
<p>I am applying to… let’s see…</p>
<p>UCLA
USC
Brown
Kenyon
Oberlin
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Drexel (free application)
Tulane (free application so might as well)</p>
<p>6 or 7 for me.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 18 schools… (4 safeties)</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale </li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania - Wharton</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>USC - Safety</li>
<li>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
</ol>
<p>^Hey there CC stereotype.</p>
<p>^ Half of them are Ivies, which are crapshoots. Got to play it safe, no?</p>
<p>It’s that mentality which oversaturates the applicant pool.</p>
<p>applying to 20 schools is going to be very expansive…</p>
<p>^^ It’s not my fault that all the Ivies have prestigious business programs which will allow me to break into a good Finance or Investment Banking career.</p>
<p>^Actually, I think of the Ivy’s, only UPenn has a business program for undergrads.</p>
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<p>Yeah I think that’s technically true</p>