<p>Mikey, I think it’s a combination of both.</p>
<p>5, possibly 6</p>
<p>10 schools are on my list at the current moment…</p>
<p>4 Ivies, 3 High-reaches, 2 Matches, 1 Safety</p>
<p>5.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure which schools yet. I have 10 on my list but I’m narrowing it down to 5. I’m also applying to UK, that’s why.</p>
<p>D’s final list is at 10. 5 she already applied to, no common app, 2 had fees/essays waived:</p>
<p>Florida State
U of Central Florida
U of South Florida
Florida Gulf Coast
East Carolina
Temple
Drexel
St. Johns
Purdue
and an in-state safety (haven’t decided which one)</p>
<p>I always made 10 schools the target for my kids though they all went over. The last one did 10 apps but got multiple state schools out of one app that put him over. He was going for merit money so had to spread his net out a bit. The one before him was applying to a selective major so he too had to apply to more schools than usual. He had a disasterous early season which made him have to do another round of school as safeties in the likely event that he did not get into ANY of his initial 10 choices. So he ended up applying to 20 schools but he did it in two batches, early in the admissions season and then during Christmas break. First kid applied to ten school with 5 super reaches and a safety. That gave him 4 good matches. I think if you are applying to colleges with less than a 30% accept rate, you do need to up the ante. </p>
<p>I know kids who nailed it with one early app, kids who only had 4 schools on their lists, or even less. If you can get an early read that is positive, you can really cut down the number of apps. I do recommend getting the apps done and ready to go before you here from the early schools, however, since it is no fun doing a second set of apps after bad results from the first, especially over the holiday season. We lived through that one!</p>
<p>8 total.
2 safeties, 4 matches, 2 reaches</p>
<p>3 reaches (johns hopkins, uchicago, ucla)
3 matches (ucsd, ucsb, uci)
2 safeties (csu long beach, san fransisco state)</p>
<p>but I’m applying to jhu early decision</p>
<p>As a junior so this list is still is definitely subject to change, but so far here is what I am looking at:</p>
<p>1.(ED) NYU (Stern) (high match)
2.Boston University (match)
3.Boston College (high match/reach)
4.Fordham (match)
5.Northeastern (match)
6. SUNY Stony Brook ( big time safety)
7.Penn State (safety)</p>
<ol>
<li>Columbia (reach, but who knows)</li>
</ol>
<p>duke cant be a match and columbia be a reach- theyre almost the same- maybe duke is a low reach but def not a “match”</p>
<p>anyways heres where im applying (list not final)</p>
<p>Reach- Duke, Vandy
Match- USC, Wake, Umiami, BC, Utexas</p>
<p>idk what else…</p>
<p>I’m applying to eight schools:
Reach- Occidental College
Match- Oxford of Emory, Northeastern University, Tulane University, Seattle University, University of Denver, and Rutgers- New Brunswick
Safety- SUNY-Stony Brook</p>
<p>I’m not applying to more than 10</p>
<p>Safeties
Fairfield U
UConn
Pace or Ursinus</p>
<p>Target/Reach
Boston College
Brandeis
Williams
Swarthmore
Johns Hopkins
cornell</p>
<p>Insane Reach
Yale</p>
<p>Current List is 8</p>
<p>Bowdoin
Vassar
Rice
Colgate
Boston C
Penn State U Park
Syracuse
Washington C</p>
<p>Already applied to two, waiting on a few things to apply to the remaining 6.</p>
<p>10</p>
<p>Sac State
San Diego State
UC Davis
UCSD
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Duke
Stanford
Yale
Harvard</p>
<p>In order of increasing insanity…</p>
<p>ED- Bowdoin</p>
<p>RD-Middlebury, Carleton, Georgetown, Vandy, GW, Oregon, Washington, UPenn, USC, BC</p>
<p>So i guess that is 11 total. but hope for ED so then only one
haha</p>
<p>assuming i don’t get in ED…12.</p>
<p>I know it’s a lot, but 11:
Purdue (early/rolling)
U MN (early/rolling)
U Wisconsin (early/rolling)
U Michigan (Priority)
MIT (EA)
Virginia Tech
Brown
Cornell
Rice
Stanford
Yale</p>
<p>I’m paranoid about not getting in anywhere, hence all the safeties/low matches</p>
<p>7(but 2 are priority app)</p>
<p>2 reaches
4 matches
1 safety</p>
<p>10</p>
<p>1 canadian</p>