<p>I applied to seven. Accepted at five and waitlisted at two. I spend about a week on the important essays and about an hour and the less important essays. I decided on attending Northwestern U.</p>
<p>I will be applying to 10 schools this fall:</p>
<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The University of Washington
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Case Western Reserve University
Purdue University
The University of Michigan
Stevens Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</p>
<p>@EvanMWard: My Bad~! Yea, right, there are only 14 colleges. I was struggling about Northwestern, so I typed 15 instead of 14 unintentionally. But are 7 reaches too many?</p>
<p>Does anybody know if there is financial aid for the college application fee? I feel like applying to 10+ colleges at a $60-70 fee is gonna stack up very quickly, on top of sending test scores in :/</p>
<p>I’m applying to 5. I have it narrowed down pretty well. And there’s on two that I realllyyy want to go to.</p>
<p>I was planning on applying to 10-12.
Then I saw the application costs, so I narrowed it down to 2 safeties, 2 matches, and 1 reach.</p>
<p>I applied to 9, including Stanford, UCLA and Cal. My only rejection was Stanford.</p>
<p>My list is at 18! 10 Reaches, 6 Matches, and 2 Safeties.
While that is a bit much (I can’t seem to narrow mine) Honestly I think if you have the means to apply to the schools, and are willing to put in the effort for each application, why not? It really can’t hurt.</p>
<p>@bluesmiles08: It is also a lot of work for your guidance counselor, keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Just curious, for those who applied to 10+ colleges, how long did it take to fill out the applications?</p>
<p>Some one at my school applied to all of the top 20 schools.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, how is it a lot of work for your guidance counselor to apply to many colleges? I was under the impression that my guidance counselor writes one recommendation, changes the name of the college, and sends it out to all the colleges. Enlighten me please, because my counselor hates me for all the work I make her do for me already. (approving my many ap courses, signing up for SAT subject tests, which nooone does at my school, etc .)</p>
<p>@OP - </p>
<p>I applied to 9 schools, but I didn’t really start writing my essays until Christmas break. I’m not endorsing that method by any means (it’s awful), but that -is- how the process went for me. I’d actually recommend starting on your Common App essay now, and then the supplements to any schools that you’re sure of.</p>
<p>As for cutting down on your list, it sometimes helps to apply EA somewhere. For instance, I applied EA to Emory (I thought of it as a match), and because I was accepted in December and knew that I would take Emory over any of my planned safeties, I didn’t have to worry about filling out any safety applications. I copied this system from another CCer, mifune (HS’10), who applied to UChicago EA, was accepted, and then applied to only HYPS and UPenn.</p>
<p>Based off the list you have, I think you should apply EA to UChicago (or Stanford?–but a December acceptance from Stanford is relatively unlikely, so you’d probably still have to fill out safeties). If you’re accepted, then presumably you won’t apply to quite a few other schools on the list?</p>
<p>If it helps, this is where I applied:
Emory - EA - match
Duke - high match/reach
Cornell - high match/reach
WUSTL - high match/reach
Columbia - reach
UPenn - reach
Harvard - high reach
Yale - high reach
Princeton - high reach</p>
<p>Obviously, if I hadn’t been accepted EA, this would have been a really, really risky list. It’s EA that freed me to pursue lots of reach schools. Otherwise, too much of my time would have been sucked into match/safety choices.</p>
<p>My school limits the number we can apply to at 10 but the UC system counts as 1 and I think the UCAS system counts as 1 and any other system/public schools. I ended up applying to 11 (2 UCs), got into 6 or 7 (can’t remember the last school), rejected from the rest.</p>
<p>Going to Emory this fall! (:</p>
<p>I applied to 10:</p>
<p>Babson (EA Accepted)
Boston College (EA Accepted to Honors CSOM)
Carleton College (RD Accepted)
Claremont McKenna (RD Waitlisted did not get off)
U Pennsylvania (RD Rejected)
Pomona (RD Rejected)
Swarthmore (RD Waitlisted did not get off)
Wash U St. Louis (RD Waitlisted got off)
U Washington (RD Accepted to Foster)
Coast Guard Academy (RD Accepted)</p>
<p>For me it felt like half of that list were reaches, but I only got into 1.</p>
<p>I applied to ten. 7 were reaches. 3 were… safeties/matches, I guess? I mean, I knew I would get into them, but they had honors programs and stuff that made me feel they would be a good place for me.</p>
<p>I applied to 21 schools, and I don’t regret it at all. Many essays are repetitive in nature, and I wanted to see how the process worked. If you have the financial ability to do it and the dedication and time to spend on the applications, it’s 100% worth it to apply to as many schools as you’re interested in.</p>
<p>I applied to one safety, which I knew I was accepted to because of ELC. I had maybe 5 matches, and the rest were pretty reachy. I was accepted to 9, waitlisted at 3, and rejected from 9. It was worth it to see all of my options and get the closure from a rejection or acceptance from a school instead of wondering what’d happen if I had applied.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 12 schools.</p>
<p>2 or 3 safeties
2 Reaches
7 or 8 matches.</p>
<p>College acceptances are crazy now, you can’t go easy on the number of schools you apply to.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 11:</p>
<p>Emory (ED) - High Match
WashU - Reach
UChicago - Reach
Northwestern - Reach
UMich (EA) - High Match
USC - High Match
NYU - Match
BC - Match
Brandeis - Match
UWisconsin - Safety
BU - Safety</p>
<p>I applied to 8:
Stanford(Early)(Big Reach)-Rejected
Brown(Reach)-Rejected
Tufts(slight Reach)-Waitlisted
Emory(Match)-Accepted
Virginia Tech(Match)-Accepted
Indiana University(Safety/Match)-Accepted
University of Tennnessee(Safety)-Accepted</p>
<p>I’m going to Virginia Tech in Engineering this Fall.</p>