<p>Oldest had very specific criteria and, at the time, was interested in a hard-to-find major. She applied to the only 3 that fit the criteria. Youngest applied to 7.</p>
<p>Seven…two safeties, three matches, two reaches. RD at all. Have gotten acceptances at the first four, with merit at three so far (expecting it from the fourth). The four acceptances are at the two safeties and 2/3 of the matches. Anticipating a rejection this week from one of the reaches. Expecting to hear from the other two (one reach, one match) soon.</p>
<p>Since a fall visit, the top choice has been one of the matches. It was the second one to respond, and offered the best merit aid package, so there’s very little suspense for the ones that are still outstanding.</p>
<p>D applied to 9, 4 in US, 5 in UK. She’s in at 2 UK schools and a rolling safety in US. She’s waiting to hear from the rest. She had a couple more US schools on her list, but decided she wouldn’t choose them over one of the UK schools that had already accepted her.</p>
<p>My S applied to six – the instate flagship where he is an auto admit (and already received acceptance) and five privates that don’t send decisions until March. Two of the privates are low matches where he is fishing for merit money and the other three are reaches.</p>
<p>My D applied to 5, all large state flagships (one in our state, four OOS). 3 were safeties, 2 were matches. She chose without regard to finances, but we did the happy dance when she chose the OOS that offered a full tuition scholarship. </p>
<p>In your D’s case, would she be happy to go to the state school? Is it affordable or do you really need to get the cost below that? If your D really wants a private, are any of those she’s been accepted to affordable with the merit aid offered? If the answer to those questions is no, I’d encourage a couple new applications, but ONLY if they are schools she wants to attend.</p>
<p>My daughter applied to 4 schools. Two University of California Schools and two Cal State schools. All in state. The application fees made it too difficult to apply to more than 4. My daughter’s a stellar student, so I’m confident she’ll get into one of them.</p>
<p>D applied to 10, only heard from one so far. Two in-state publics, one OOS public (accepted with merit), 7 privates.</p>
<p>My D applied to 6 EA and 1 RD that we cannot commit to ED. Accepted to 5 of the EA (all public flagships) and rejected by 1. Still waiting for the RD result. Top choice is the in state flagship unless there are more financial aids from the others (all oos) which is not very likely. So far, there is one oos public offered very good scholarships.
Originally, she planned to apply to 6 colleges, but one school offered free application and no essay. So she added that one and it is the one that offered the biggest scholarship so far.</p>
<p>D applied to 6 schools EA; two safeties, two targets, two reaches. Has been accepted to three so far all with Merit. Deferred pending midterm grades for the two reaches. Still waiting on one target.</p>
<p>My daughter only applied to one school, EA.
She was pretty confident she’d get in. It was the only school with the program she wanted and was in a perfect location.
If she hadn’t gotten in, she would have had to scramble to find something else.</p>
<p>My son has applied to 12. One is a state school with rolling admission where he’s already accepted with a very attractive merit offer. The rest are an even mix between pretty safe, match, and reach. He applied to all RD. Once decisions are in (and hopefully more merit aid offers) we’ll look at all options remaining on the table and go from there. I can’t overstate how much of a relief it was to have one acceptance “in the bag” early, though. It removes a LOT of pressure!</p>
<p>On the other hand, I just met with two current college freshmen that each applied to a single school. One applied to his first choice ED, with plans to apply elsewhere if he was rejected or deferred. The other applied to a single state school very early, his dream school where he was extremely well qualified.</p>
<p>My kids were different with different needs and applications. </p>
<p>Oldest applied to 7, accepted to 5. She chose her schools based on cities she would like to be in (Boston or Washington DC) plus a rolling admission local safety.</p>
<p>Son applied to 3, accepted to the rolling adm. school and another ED, so he withdrew the 3rd ap. He was looking for a specific program, and his ED school had scholarships based on stats, so we knew he qualified.</p>
<p>Youngest applied to 13 because many had very low acceptance rates and she was unsure of her chances (accepted to 12).</p>
<p>OP, how does your daughter feel about the affordable state school? If she wants to apply to a few more privates that have easy apps to see if she could get merit aid, fine. If she’s happy with her current financial safety, that’s good too.</p>
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<p>Given his academic record, there really was no such thing as a ‘safety’ school for him.</p>
<p>He has applied to 10 schools thus far. To date, he has received 4 acceptances
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<p>My D applied to 6 schools. Five EA, accepted to all 5; one RD. (Three safeties, one match, two reach.)</p>
<p>We do not qualify for aid.</p>
<p>16 in total including the UCs – but that is one application and a check box for 6 schools. So in reality 10.</p>
<p>UCs - 6
OO State Univ - 2
Pvt Univ - 7
LAC - 1 </p>
<p>Accepted to the 2 OOS flagship universities in the EA cycle. Deferred from 2 of the private universities. Waiting on everything else.</p>
<p>We will not qualify for financial aid and none of these schools offer much(if any) merit aid. But I am glad that there were no ED schools. Emotions have swung from I need to get away from home to will only go to a small school to I do not want to leave California. I am sure that there will a few more cycles before May 1st.</p>
<p>Oldest applied to 3, was accepted at 2, loved his education, is now graduated.</p>
<p>Youngest has applied to 3. We did a lot of vetting prior to the applications, and at least one of the 3 is a strong academic and financial safety where he would be happy. We have not yet heard the results.</p>
<p>Son is aiming for BFA and applied to 15 schools, 3 are non-audition safeties. Has been academically accepted to 10 so far, including the three safeties, and no academic rejections yet. Won’t know the final destination until after auditions and decisions arrive, usually in late March/early April.</p>
<p>Not a parent but thought I would answer anyways since I applied to a ton!</p>
<p>Applied to 17! </p>
<p>Parents really wanted me to have a wide range of options as I didn’t get into my top choice early.</p>
<p>I think 7 is a good number–helps a kid focus on the important ones, and keeps application costs down!</p>