<p>thanks everyone! please tell me your results when you get them next week; best of luck to you all! 
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<p>I applied to 16 colleges, of which 13 were essentially āreachesā (under 35% acceptance rate). I admittedly went in to that thinking āI have to apply to many reaches to at least get into one, right?ā So far, havenāt been rejected anywhere (next week though b-( ). Right now Iām in at 4 reaches: UChicago, UVA OOS, Notre Dame, and WashU</p>
<p>@wimmiett Wow, thatās amazing! congratulations hopefully iāll have that luck as well when the time comes 
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<p>My dream colleges right now are Yale and UPenn. I also want to apply to Cornell and Columbia. Ugh all of them are so selectiveā¦Iām visiting Yale and Penn over spring break; Iām so excited!! sadly, i feel like only super-humans get accepted :-/ </p>
<p>Three matches (USC, UCB, CPSLO(accepted)) and nine reaches (HYP, Stanford (rejected SCEA), Harvey Mudd, Carnegie Mellon SCS, Cornell Engineering, UPenn SEAS, and Columbia Fu).
March 27th is going to be a veryā¦ decisive day for me :P</p>
<p>Spend quality time (100ās of hours) over an 18 month period researching, visiting, communicating with, selecting and applying to 7-10 colleges, including 2-4 reach schools, and you will be satisfied with your results. </p>
<p>On the other hand, fill out 20 plus reach-heavy applications, and it will be hit or miss.</p>