<p>4:
Purdue-accepted
Alabama-accepted
Penn State-still waiting
Illinois Urbana Champaign-still waiting</p>
<p>sounds good outburst! I hope you get into all :)</p>
<p>I applied to four... I was actually only going to apply to two, but the counselor wouldn't let me.
1- Notre Dame (EA)
2- John Carroll
3- Loyola MD
4- Marquette</p>
<ol>
<li>princeton =P</li>
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<p>applying to four - a safety, a match, and two reaches</p>
<p>16
Stanford, Harvard, UPENN, Tufts, G-Town, Princeton, Amherst, Williams, Columbia, GWU, Swarthmore, Yale, Dartmouth, U of Chicago (accepted), Brown, Hamilton </p>
<p>My SATs: 1490 790 720 610 poor African-American</p>
<p>I don't think a large number of schools is a bad thing if the applicant needs financial aid. I am applying to a double digit number of schools, and I certainly have done plenty of research; however, financial is unfortunately a major concern for me.</p>
<p>our counselor wants us (juniors) to have a shortlist (no more than 10, preferrably 5-7) colleges we're going to apply to. This is much easier for me since my major is only offerred at 62 schools (meteorology). And I might also want to do aerospace/aeronautical engineering, so that again narrows the list. I think 10+ is a bad idea, because you can't dedicate the right time to it. I have a list already, but most of mine aren't overly competetive, since mostly only state schools offer my major</p>
<p>My medium size list: ohio state, ohio university, purdue, cornell, ucla, UMich, Penn State, SUNY (anyone know if albany or stony brook is considered better?), Texas A & M, UIUC, U of wisconsin, and a few ohio colleges that would allow me to explore meteorology even if they don't allow it</p>
<p>Four:
-Georgetown (EA Accepted)
-Brown
-Dartmouth
-UPenn</p>
<p>(8 if you count the UCs (Berkeley, LA, SD, Davis), which I don't, since I wouldn't go to one now that I got in EA) :D</p>
<p>I applied to 6; though in another thread w/ teh same question i accidently/mistyped wrote 5 .</p>
<p>I applied to 11 universities in the US, 2 in Canada and 5 in the UK (one common application). But had I known what I know today, I wqould have applied to 7 or 8.</p>
<p>I applied to 22 schools (3 Uc's) thank god for the common app</p>
<p>As a junior, you want to lay the groundwork for your application strategy, and that should include room for change. At first, my son had 3 safety schools, 2-3 match schools and 2 reach schools picked out. Because of schedule conflicts, he didn't finish retaking his standardized tests until December; by then, he had also been deferred from his two reach schools. His final SAT2s and ACT were very good, so his focus has changed. He has dropped two of his safety schools and added low reach schools. So, it's now at 1 safety, 2 high reaches, and 5 match/low reach schools. I would never have guessed that this would be his final list, but it has all worked out. From what we know now, deciding on one or two safeties early on is a comfort, but it's the match and low reach schools that get the most attention as the deadlines approach. Keep an extra file open with information on potential schools that you can't quite decide on, because your attitude can change right up to the last month.</p>
<p>plan ahead and also relax. and apply only to schools to you want to go to. </p>
<p>i applied 11 total:
4 reaches that i didnt really want to go to, except for stanford, which i got waitlisted on
3 matches, got in all 3, ended up at ucla
4 safeties, got in all, my parents were too paranoid that a UC would reject me</p>
<p>again, plan ahead, know what colleges you want to go to. if youre adding in schools in october/november (like i did), it will complicate things. relax if u have a good number of matches, you'll be fine. dont be like my parents and stack up on safeties cuz they thought it couldnt get into UC Riverside when i already had UC Irvine ELC and eventually did get waitlisted at stanford. and as a i found out with my other 3 reach schools, i didnt really want to go there in the first place, so i guess i didnt do my best on the app and thus the rejects</p>
<p>EDs and EAs are one way to get things done.</p>
<p>I applied to three EAs and one ED.
For the ED, it's a slight reach to me but still my favorite college
For the EAs, they're one match and two safeties.</p>
<p>What I like about this is that I truly have some control after i heard from these Early results.
If I get in ED, I go
If I get in EA match, I can adjust my college list up a little on Dec. 15th (w/ common app only the supplements to go)
If I get in EA safeties, at least a merry christmas....</p>
<p>hehe</p>
<p>Many times it really depends on what the schools are. If you are applying to some of the smaller school, they are going to be eyeing your apps very carefully and looking for some demonstrated interest. If you need aid, or are applying for some very selective programs, again, more schools are needed. Kids who apply to some of those joint MD programs since they have to apply to both the med school and the college, apply to many schools in the process. Then they need some schools outside of that arena for safeties and matches if none of the undergrad schools in the program fit such discriptions and are what the student wants if he does not get into the med part of the program. Some kids hit it lucky with early programs and just apply to one college. At my son's school the number of apps are not as high as they would be because of the number of kids getting into their early school and not needing to apply elsewhere. Once you start filling out the apps, I think you will find that it is a tedious task, and if you want to have a rich senior year, it is no fun filling out many of them and then keeping track of them. </p>
<p>Both of my boys applied to a ridiculous number of schools, and though I disagreed and did not assist them after the core group, that was there call. If they wanted to spend the time applying, I would pay the fees. They had a varied cast of schools and lots of high reach schools for them. They also had some extreme safeties. My senior had 10 musical theatre schools that required auditions and about 5 acting only or voice only programs, with 5 schools requiring no auditions. But he did most of the apps over the summer on prior year applications and then just had to copy most of the stuff onto to the new apps with the exception of some changes of the mind which were primarily quickies, online type apps. His apps were almost all out by Ocober 1st and he did a dozen auditions, 2 in October, 3 in December and 7 in November. He is now done. But I helped him with the scheduling and timing, and seriously doubt a highschooler could have done this on his own, nor could most parents, as I am pretty experienced in this sort of stuff and we still had a host of problems come up. Not to mention the fact that his grades were lousy first quarter and we spent a veritable fortune which we could have saved had we spaced some of the auditons after the holidays, since he is likely going to his early action school. So there are disadvantages and drawbacks no matter which way you go. I can tell you that if you are applying to many schools, keeping the files straight and a chart is very important. I feel that I was overinvolved in that end of things but if I had let it go, some more costly mistakes would have been made--as some were in the process. And those sort of things can cost you an admissions decision.</p>
<p>I applied to 15 - my situtation is slightly different, however, in that I am a home-schooled student. I felt I was very much a wild card - even though home-schoolers increasingly apply to the top colleges and universities, we are still a little "surprising" to the admissions officers. At the nearby public high school, however (ranked highest in the state, over the prep schools ), the average number of applications is 9-12.</p>
<p>I applied to 10.
4 state u - safeties
3 UC - 1 BIG reach, 1 reach, 1 match
3 private - 1 reach, 2 match</p>
<p>If I could do it all over again, I'd only apply to 1 state u, 2 at most.</p>
<p>Its alright to apply to more than 10 schools if some use one application. Like in Cali the UC system I applied to five with one application. On the private side I applied to eight with 4 on the common app and 4 not, I thought it was manageable, because I did the individual apps this summer and focused on the UC's in Oct-Nov. So its all about time management. On the downside I did have to pay a lot of money, but I had save for that so my parents paid half and I paid half.</p>
<p>I only applied to four. Uh oh.</p>