<p>1 ED (admit, withdrawed b/c of financial aid)
2 RD safeties (both accepted)
1 RD match (waiting)</p>
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<p>4 schools</p>
<p>My choices were limited by the costs my parents can afford</p>
<p>@ SteveMA 12/15 were on the Common App., a few had no fee, a few had no essays, most had one, some had several essays. I probably wrote 20+ essays for schools and scholarships, some just were revisions of others though. That was a very doable? number of essays for me.</p>
<p>D applied to 22. I know, that’s a lot. She didn’t care what part of the country she ended up in. She didn’t care about the feel of the school until it came down to weeding out acceptances. She did her search by majors. Financial aid/merit scholarships where a major focus. Once we had all the money offers, we made a family decision. (Thank goodness our “family decision” was her first choice.) She had great choices both in fit and majors, not to mention money as well. She is a hard-working junior at her “lottery” school who will graduate debt free.</p>
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<p>My D’s position is very similar. Stats around the published 75th percentile for most Ivies, pretty modest ECs, family resources in that awkward range around 100K income.</p>
<p>She also has immigrant parents who are very comfortable with big universities and highly suspicious of LACs. We’d simply never heard of them at the beginning of this process and were skeptical that any institution of higher education that small, and that we’d never heard of, could be any good.</p>
<p>So … she applied EA to our two state flagships and was accepted at both. Out of state, she applied to a collection of Ivies, Stanford, Vanderbilt, etc. 11 in all. Parents, who’ve learned more since the fall, are now cringing at the prospect of 11 rejections by the end of the month. What will be, will be.</p>
<p>Son applied to 16 schools. We are in the same position as some others here… middle class and financial aid will be determining factor to some extent. I learned last year that schools will offer varying degrees of aid. </p>
<p>Waiting on HYPS and Penn.</p>
<p>Likely letters from Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Rice, and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Accepted to WUSTL and MIT</p>
<p>Also accepted to some safety schools that don’t matter anymore.</p>
<p>I learned last year with older son that some of the top schools can have aid packages that differ up to $10K per year so the extra money on the apps is worth it to me.</p>
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<li> [1 reach, 3 targets, and 1 safety.]</li>
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<p>D1 applied to 7:
3 safeties Accepted all
3 LAC Accepted at 2 rejected 1
1 Ivy Rejected
Happy at her private LAC
D2 applied to 10
1 Safety accepted
4 LAC accepted all
5 Ivies accepted at 2 rejected by 3</p>
<p>OP, there’s no “right” number, except that every student needs a safety they’d be happy to attend. You’re covered there, twice in fact.</p>
<p>Six.
Just another talented kid. 3.9 gpa (school doesn’t weight), 36 ACT, 1580/1600 SAT, 200 hours community service, competed at state level in her ECs, Varsity athlete senior yr. Full pay.
In at safety with no merit money. Waiting on five outcomes. Out of the competition for merit money at another school, so the school is out as well. Two schools she no longer wants to attend. So we are waiting on one reach and one match.</p>
<p>thank you for the numerous responses. I kinda wish I had posted this earlier this as a junior or at least earlier this school year. I’m happy with my options but the extra schools and merit aid offers would have been nice.</p>
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<p>I’m always amazed when I read stuff like this. Once a kid’s gotten one of those two scores, why on earth would they take the other test??</p>
<p>19, most safeties picked to hunt for merit aid, and 1 reach RD. Accepted with merit to all but reach, with at least 1/2 tuition for 17 schools. Financial aid packages have narrowed it down to 3 very different schools. If he could do it again, he would have applied to just 5 of the original schools and tried for a few more reaches that meet 10% need.</p>
<p>Rayrick, maybe the tests were already scheduled and paid for. D2 took the SAT a couple of weeks ago, but is also registered for the ACT on April 14 – we registered her early for both to get a location close to our house. So even if her SAT scores are amazing, she will take the ACT anyway.</p>
<p>^^fair enough.</p>
<p>He applied to 12, accepted at 10 or 11.</p>
<p>A couple of low reaches, a couple of safeties, mostly solid matches. We do not qualify for need based aid. We were looking for some nice merit awards for a great B+ kid. He probably wrote 5 or 6 essays for all and most had waived an admissions charge when the application was electronically filed.</p>
<p>Well worth the exercise. Schools where I thought he would see big $s came up with nothing. Others were surprisingly generous. He will choose from among 4 schools over the next couple of weeks.</p>
<p>Maybe she’s like my kid - he likes to take the tests just to challenge himself and see how high he can go. His numbers weren’t as high as these, but then again, he only studied about 2 hours - otherwise it wouldn’t be a “true sense of his intelligence”. Man, that kid is frustrating!</p>
<p>^Megan, mine refused to re-take his tests. He said one sitting (with very little prep) was all colleges should NEED to see from him, lol.</p>
<p>Applied to 5: state safety, 1 OOS match, 1 OOS high match; 1 SCEA (deferred) reach and another RD reach. Accepted at the first 3 and happy if it stays that way!</p>
<p>My daughter only applied to one, early action.
Had she not gotten in, she would have had to scamble to find other choices. There really was only one school that she wanted to go to.</p>
<p>My D1 submitted 3 applications: 1 ED to her top choice LAC, 1 to our state flagship which has rolling admissions, and 1 to another LAC that had an early application deadline for their top merit scholarship. She was accepted ED at her top choice school and withdrew the other two applications before they were acted upon. She had a longer list, 8 or 9 schools in all, that she would have applied to had she not been accepted ED at her top choice.</p>
<p>D2 will be applying next year and she’ll follow a similar pattern.</p>
<p>Lake Jr. selected 10 schools, which I thought may have perhaps been 3 too many, but I wholeheartedly agreed with the wide net strategy, particularly when finances are a critical component in the ultimate decision.</p>
<p>This process was managable because Lake Jr. genuinely liked each school to which he applied (I know, sounds superflous, doesn’t it? LOL).</p>
<p>6 reaches, including an Ivy
2 matches
2 safeties, including one very well regarded public [OOS] STEM university.</p>
<p>We toured 4 of the reaches and 1 safety. Admissions at his first choice is highly competitive, so if a thin envelope should arrive, we’ll have a “thanks for playing” frame of mind. Fortunately he’s been admitted RD to his second choice, a reach. Incidentally, junior was never sold on the idea of EA. Probably got that from me.</p>