<p>How many colleges is too many to apply to? I mean, I know there's no limit, but there must be some number that just seems ridiculously too many. Right now I've got 12 schools on my list. Many are reaches and I don't want to narrow it down too much or I might not have options when it comes to choosing time... but maybe I am just being paraniod that I won't get in anywhere. Am I going overboard applying to 12 schools? What do you think?</p>
<p>apply to as many as you feel like, especially if you have fee wavers, but even if you don't, who cares?</p>
<p>I know kids who have applied to twenty......if you are really needing money then you should spread your apps around......good luck.</p>
<p>yeah, i guess i shouldn't limit myself. i just feel kind of weird applying to that many schools, because at my mostly non-competitive public high school, most students stay in-state and only apply to 3 or 4 schools at most. I think my friends will call me crazy... but that won't stop me, of course</p>
<p>your teachers and counselors willingness to write the support documents. As to what your friends do/say. Many kids don't reveal to all of their friends the schools they are applying to.....firstly they don't want to elicit competition and secondly it is really nobody elses business. Good for you that you are looking far and wide......you will be sooooo happy next year at this time....also you are gonna be so happy to have a nice choice of packages to compare for the money. You should get your FAFSA PIN applied for very soon....have you done that????</p>
<p>no, how do i go about applying for that?</p>
<p>go to the website for FAFSA just go to google and type in the term.....you will see how to apply for the PIN and you and your folks will each need a PIN. You can look over the form and fill in all of your personal data and save it.....will your folks need help with this....you can probably help them. Be sure to apply online for there are helps to catch errors which the paper copy does of course not have. It is processed more quickly on line as well.</p>
<p>ok. i'm sure my parents know what to do, because i have an older sister in college and they have done all this before. however they probably didn't realize they should be doing it so soon, so thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>It is just as easy for you to get your PIN now......just be sure to save it in an easy to locate place. The FAFSA that you will need to do for yourself is going to need the tax info for filing in '06.</p>
<p>One thing I did for my grad applications that really put professors in a good frame of mind for writing my recommendations was to make it as easy for them to write all the recommendations as possible.</p>
<p>I kept a folder for each of the three professors that I had writing recs for me. I filled out all of the basic info for them, included stamped envelopes with the department's return address printed on them for each recommendation, and I made out instruction sheets for each university's application. The instruction sheets included instructions for how to return each of the recommendations (some required things to be submitted online) and deadlines. Each school's documentation was paperclipped together to keep everything organized. I gave the packets to each of them in September. I sent each of them a reminder e-mail a week before the first deadline with a recap of all the deadline dates, and then afterwards, I sent each of them a hand-written thank you note.</p>
<p>If you're applying to a slew of programs, it helps to make things easy for your teachers so they a) get the distinct impression that you're responsible and serious about the application process, and b) puts them in a good mood because they don't have to be riffling through papers and websites to figure out how to turn things in and when the deadlines are. It can make having to write fifteen recommendations seem like only having to write four or five.</p>
<p>(I must've gotten good recs, because I got in everywhere I applied!)</p>
<p>allie, when applying to super-selectives a total of 12 is not too many. Unfortunately even if you're well qualified there's an element of luck at play so it makes sense to be somewhat top heavy. Just make sure you're covered in the safety/surebet category and that you have enough time and energy to do a good job on ALL your applications.</p>
<p>12 completely different applications can be rediculous only if you have to write about 20 or more essays for them. if you effectively recycle, you will find that most of the same information appears on each app, making it possible. But realize you might be sacrificing time from improving your chances of getting into some of the schools by spending time on so many apps and not activities, harder classes, ect. All in all, 12 is not that unreasonable.</p>