<p>I'm a junior right now, and I'm starting to think about schools that I want to apply to. How many schools should I apply to? 10? I was thinking of something like 3 reaches, 3 matches, and 3 safeties, and then probably another 1 reach school. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I applied to 10:</p>
<p>3 reaches
2 safeties
5? matches??? wow. that seems like a lot. Mind you, my instate flagship was a safety, and in California it is a different situation</p>
<p>^ Better safe than sorry.</p>
<p>I’m probably going to apply to 12 total if NU ED doesn’t work out.</p>
<p>Isn’t the point of a safety that you only need one? </p>
<p>I only applied to one school, which I guess was a match. I suppose a community college would have been my safety.</p>
<p>^ lol yeah. I had the University of Maine as one, but then I was like “I don’t want to go there,” so I added a slightly less safe school that I liked more</p>
<p>^^ I’ll have 2 safeties if NU doesn’t work out. Maybe even 3. Lol my parents want to be careful. U of I, Rochester, and probably U Wisc. Madison would be the safties.</p>
<p>I’m applying to around 15 but I doubt that’s anywhere near average.</p>
<p>Applying to around 12 reaches, 2 matches and 1 safety. My definition of reach/match is quite subjective and technically one could say I’m applying to 14 reaches.</p>
<p>^But you got a 2400 on your SAT plus I imagine a good GPA and good ec’s as well, so you’re essentially applying to 12 crapshoot* schools I can imagine. I have faith in you J13. Lol. </p>
<p>When I’m a senior I plan to apply to the best state schools which all but one will be safeties (UNC Chapel Hill being that.), and I will try to find matches as well as some reaches. No idea though yet. I doubt I’ll apply to any Ivies.</p>
<p>I’m applying to six reaches, four matches, and one safety. I’m low income, so I need financial aid.</p>
<p>Your list looks good, but I might add another reach or two. There’s no drawback to aiming high.</p>
<p>Applied to 11. 3 reaches, 5 matches, 3 safeties.</p>
<p>I applied to four schools </p>
<p>two match/reach and two safety
(UCB/UCLA) & (UCD/UCSB) </p>
<p>got in all 4 so it worked out fine</p>
<p>I’ll apply to 2 reach schools, 2 matches, and a safety. All of them are schools I’d be delighted to attend, so I don’t see why I’d necessarily have to apply to more.</p>
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<p>^ I liked 9 schools too much to not apply to them, for example</p>
<p>I know I want to apply to 5: MIT, U Rochester, U Minnesota, U Pittsburgh, and U Utah.</p>
<p>That would be a balanced list, but there are some other schools I like and I suspect my parents will want me to apply to at least one more elite private.</p>
<p>My plan is to add three more for a final total of 8. That’s the number of transcripts I can request at one time.</p>
<p>I’m planning on only having to apply to one, hopefully. (AU ED)</p>
<p>But if I get deferred or denied (which I’m kinda expecting…) then I’ll probably apply to:
USC-Columbia (<em>not</em> in Cali. On the other side of the country, actually… and older)
Appalachian
Converse College ($7500 in scholarship money, even with a 2.8 GPA)
Furman University
Catholic U of America
Fordham</p>
<p>Maybe some others… The only ‘safety’ is Converse… but I have high doubts of myself because of my grades. =( It sucks, because kids who take 2 study halls each year get ranked higher than me and get better grades. =/</p>
<p>^You’re a rare-breed CC’er. I don’t know how anyone could apply to Appalachian, it’s in the middle of nowhere…</p>
<p>so applying to 10 schools in my case is perfectly normal? IDK if I should have 3 safeties though or if I should just have 1 safety and add 2 more to reaches.</p>
<p>My sister applied to 12 and got into the all. I honestly dont know why she applied to so many because she knew before hand that she was going to go to either Maryland or Delaware.</p>
<p>I applied to 20. 11 reaches, 5 matches, and 4 safeties. I got into 9 of them, waitlisted at 3, and rejected from 8.</p>