<p>I'm only a Junior but right now I'm narrowing my choices. I just want to know how many do most people apply to. Is it 2, 5, 10, 15, or maybe 30? The universities I'm looking at are:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Dartmouth
UCLA
UC Berkley
UF
Howard
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Depends on the school, if they get in anywhere early… </p>
<p>I think the recommended number (and the usual) for my school is something around 8-10, although at my school it goes up to 20, really.</p>
<p>My friend applied to only 1 school. However the average at my school is probably around 6-8 schools. It really depends on the person. I know one person who applied to 21 schools (mostly common app schools) because he got an application fee waiver and wanted to try to get into a bunch of schools just for the sake of bragging rights.</p>
<p>Do however many applications that you want. But only make apps for schools that you would be “more than thrilled” to attend.</p>
<p>If your talking in terms of the common app then its maybe around 8-15. Using each college alone it will be 6-8. In this day and age, I would use the common app and apply to 8-15, just in case.</p>
<p>I applied to 2.
I was only going to apply to one but I made a last minute decision to apply to another one, just to see if I would get in.</p>
<p>The AVERAGE student probably applies to 5-8. </p>
<p>The recommendation is usually 3 reach, 3 match, 2 safety.</p>
<p>It’s a waste to apply to more than 10 so you’ve got a good number at the moment</p>
<p>However many you are truly interested in… I applied to three and was only interested in two of them. The third one I didn’t care about at all, and they ended up getting my SAT scores late and offered me a Jan 2011 spot lol</p>
<p>At my school it’s around 5. I plan on way more. </p>
<p>My list:</p>
<p>Georgetown
Howard
Barnard
UPenn
NYU
Stanford
Penn State
USci Philly
Columbia
John Hopkins
UChicago
Amherst
And probably some more state schools like Pitt, etc</p>
<p>I’m a senior and currently have a list of 5 schools that I am definitely applying to. I’m hoping to make this list around 8 once I submit applications. Of the people I know entering college, they applied to an average of around 9 schools. I know someone who applied to 16. Just make sure the schools you apply to are ones you would definitely want to go to. Don’t add a safety just because it’s easy to get into.</p>
<p>When I applied last year I only applied to 4 schools: two safeties, a match, and a reach.</p>
<p>I think 5 schools is a good number. Enough time for a safety, 2-3 matches, and 2-3 reaches.</p>
<p>In my experience, the average is about 10, which is the number that I will probably apply to. I am really hoping to keep myself under 15.</p>
<p>I did hear a story about a girl who applied to 30: a lot of people said that that showed childish indecision and meant she was not ready to go to college. The criticism is extreme, but 30 is probably too much.</p>
<p>You know what ****es me off? One of my classmates applied to Yale EA and was accepted…then she applied to 11 other selective schools just to see how many she could get into. She had no real intention of going to any of them; just applied for the ego boost. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr</p>
<p>@cosine: I think one girl (legacy) got accepted SCEA, but she also applied to Georgetown because she already paid the application fee (and was actually interested in going there). </p>
<p>However, is there any chance she already paid the fees and didn’t feel like wasting the money? Although, I do agree that that was the wrong thing to do…</p>
<p>It’s over 9000.</p>
<p>i applied to one. if you apply to schools early decision/early action it can drastically reduce your application workload.</p>
<p>@rchhay- don’t you have to pull all your other apps as soon as you get accepted to SCEA?</p>
<p>^ Are you thinking of ED? SCEA allows you up until May 1 to make your decision so you can apply RD to other schools.</p>
<p>^ Hmm… guess so. Sorry :)</p>
<p>^No problem, I was an office monitor (sort of like a TA for the office/prep period) and I had to listen to the distinction being explain to parents MANY times. It’s definitely confusing!</p>