How many colleges do you recommend students to apply to?

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Unless you have a source for that, its only marginally better than anecdotal evidence. </p>

<p>Nothing against you, but you could be pulling numbers out of a hat or the survey may have been taken at all low income, inner-city schools. =/

Nonsense. I clearly stated in post #6 that the numbers come from the HERI/CIRP survey. If you want to verify my data, then take the effort to do so. The data I have is on an excel spreadsheet I acquired from Duke, but your own university should have a copy available. Failing that, much of the data is readily available online to the public, as a simple Google search would have revealed. An example:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/briefs/brief-20080512-Applications.pdf[/url]”>http://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/briefs/brief-20080512-Applications.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It is the most comprehensive and well-known study of college freshmen and has data about everything from how important they consider rankings to what degrees their parents earned to how they feel about social issues. If you have not heard of it, which is apparently the case, I suggest investigating it. It is regrettable – though hardly surprising – that it gets less press than Princeton Review and other self-reported hogwash.</p>