<p>If a school denies you EA, can you reapply RD? Maybe that’s somewhat of a n00b question, but I really like BC and the only early program they have is EA. My SAT is 640 cr, 700 m, 780 w (730 Math I and 690 Bio M). I’m val at a small catholic school, national merit qualifier this year, GPA 3.85 unweighted. Would I have better chances applying EA or RD to BC? Can I reapply if I I don’t get in EA?</p>
<p>EA, non-binding, is different from ED which is binding. The difference between EA and RD is just the time the schools promise that they will notify you of your status. If you do not get in EA you will not get in RD. If you apply EA they might defer or put you in a waiting list.</p>
<p>DD1 had 12 colleges on her list - 6 reaches, 4 matches and 2 safeties. Luckily she got into 1 safety, 1 match and her #1 reach by Dec. 15th so she ended up sending in only 3 more applications (all to reaches) so she could compare financial packages. </p>
<p>If your reach schools are all highly competitive to get into, (less than 15% acceptance rate) you might want want to apply to more of them to hedge your bets. Fit is the most important though - don’t apply because of prestige. The novelty will wear off very quickly.</p>
<p>As many as your parents are willing to pay for, and you can realistically see yourself at. I only applied to six, which seems to be kind of low for CC’s standards. But honestly, there’s no need to apply to more than 10 - 12 schools. In the end, you can only enroll at ONE.</p>
<p>My son applied to nine schools, which seemed like the right number and represented a good mix of reaches, matches and safeties, but in hindsight, I think the volume diluted his effort somewhat. That’s a lot of paperwork, a lot of essays, and of course a lot of money. In a few cases, he was invited to submit additional applications/essays for honors programs and scholarships, and by that time he was pretty burnt out from the process. So if you really can’t whittle down your list, just know that you’ll have your work cut out for you – on top of maintaining your grades and preparing for AP tests and the like.</p>
<p>Many used to say 5-8. Students now apply to many more. I say no more than 10 (honestly, how can you be really happy with many more schools?).</p>
<p>definitely ten or fewer, unless you’re in that iffy income bracket where you need to compare financial aid packets.</p>
<p>like i applied to eight schools: my state school, five private universities, and two LACs. </p>
<p>I got acceptance from five, waitlist at two, and reject at one. I was actually pretty surprised at the places i got into. i could have sworn i would have gotten rejected at all of them but my state school and wellesley (which, funnily enough, i got waitlisted at).
i put off my visiting until after i got accepted, and switched career/major goals after college deadlines, so there i was with a business mindset…stuck with two amazing premed powerhouses, an engineering god (attached at the hip to an internationally revered hospital), and a very selective LAC that had no business major. and my state school. that was fun.<br>
so definitely go with lots of different concentration schools. get an engineering school, a science-y one, a business-y one, a humanities one. and make sure most of them are very well-rounded schools (like take hopkins for example. only have a few of those types of schools. after my switch, hopkins was one of the first that got crossed out, cos being what it is, it didnt really give that many great options outside of science-y fields). just in case you switch gears halfway. and dont be afraid to go after those reaches! i could have sworn i would have only gotten accepted at two school..</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>ianedwarddunne: my friend applied EA at BC and they sent her a letter telling her she was not accepted but should reapply RD. She got in RD. Not quite sure how that worked, but <em>shrugs</em>. I think there is a max amt of people who can be accepted EA, and many people apply EA to BC because you have to in order to receive the presidential scholarship, so the applicant pool is pretty high.</p>
<p>I’ll definitely start working on the essays this summer (thanks for the great link!!), but I’m not sure about a class, unless it’s a one time thing. I’ll definitely get my english teacher to look over whatever I write.</p>
<p>Oh, and congrats on your acceptances, inthemistylight. Where did you end up enrolling?</p>
<p>General advice can be found at </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/493318-don-t-forget-apply-safety-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/493318-don-t-forget-apply-safety-college.html</a> </p>
<p>In your particular case, writing as someone who also lives in Minnesota, I would advise figuring out if you really like the U of Minnesota enough to enjoy being there, because it meets the definition of safety college I like, which is a college that </p>
<p>1) is pretty much certain to admit the applicant, based on its known behavior in acting on recent admission applications,</p>
<p>2) has a strong program in an area the applicant is interested in,</p>
<p>3) is affordable based on its known behavior in acting on financial aid applications,</p>
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<p>4) is likeable to the applicant. </p>
<p>If you like Minnesota, you can treat it as a safety college. Apply to it at the EARLIEST opportunity, and you won’t have to apply anywhere worse. </p>
<p>From there, load up your application list with more or less “reachy” colleges that are more desirable (to you) than your safety college. They can be colleges anywhere on the planet as long as you like them. If some have a nonrestrictive early action round or a rolling admission process, so much the better. Apply widely and see what happens. </p>
<p>I expect my son (class of 2010) to make his college application list such that some colleges will be contingent on his early action round results. (I expect he will apply to the University of Minnesota, as most of his local friends and some high school classmates have done, but he is likely to apply to several colleges out of state also.) If he gets into certain colleges in the early action round, he need not apply to so many colleges during the regular action round. You could plan in the same way.</p>
<p>So would you say it is a good idea to apply to as many schools EA as possibly (plus apply to rolling admissions schools as early as possible)?</p>
<p>For a while I thought I didn’t want to apply to UofM at all, but I was on campus (state history day) a few weeks ago, and it was really nice, so I’ve changed my mind a little. It’s not my dream school, but I wouldn’t hate going there. I’m also thinking of going pre-med, in which case UofM is a great place to be!</p>
<p>If you can find several nonrestrictive early action colleges that you would like to apply to anyhow, by all means apply to all of them in the early round. A fairly common situation for a math-liking young person is to apply to MIT, Caltech, and Chicago all in the early round. It’s much better to get admission news early enough to reduce your total number of applications.</p>
<p>If you are interested in attending a combined-medical program (BS/BA and MD), do you recommend applying to more than ten schools, since many of them are even more selective than IVYS?</p>
<p>Oh, cool! I checked the list of EA schools someone posted on this site, and it looks like about 6 of the schools on my current very long list apply. And I know BC has unrestricted EA, and I am definitely going to apply there.</p>
<p>I’d say 2 safeties, 3 matches, (preferrably at least one known for good finaid) and 5 or 6 reach schools. Go one school at a time with apps though, and spend time on essays. They’re important. If you have the time to dedicate yourself to more than 6, I say go for it as long as you invest energy into it. You’re right about application fees really meaning extremely little in the grand scheme of things – this is where you’re spending 4 years of your life and you want to make sure you’ve opened yourself up to all possibilities. </p>
<p>Off my soapbox. :)</p>
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<p>I always suggest an ULTIMATE safety, where you’re practically or absolutely guaranteed a spot. For example, I applied to UArizona. I’m not that crazy about the school, but I needed a true safety considering the schools I applied to. Thus, I applied there. I wouldn’t have been that happy there.</p>
<p>ianedwarddunne here are the sat scores for boston college<br>
Admissions Help</p>
<p>Middle 50% SAT Range For Freshman Class
Mathematics 640-720
Critical Reading 610-700
Writing 610-700</p>
<p>If bc has ea go for it! good luck</p>
<p>I applied to 10 schools, and it was absolutely ridiculous.</p>
<p>Looking back, I could have definitely narrowed it down to 1 match and 1 reach, and I would’ve been in exactly the same place. Spending the time and money applying to a bunch of schools honestly wasn’t worth it.</p>
<p>Moral of the story: make sure that you’d actually attend each of the schools that you’re applying to; looking back on it, I really applied to a bunch just for the fat envelopes. The smart thing for me to do would’ve been to apply to 1 match/safety (state school) and 2 reaches (school that I’m attending and 1 other that I also really liked). Oh well, hopefully I’ll make back that $500 for my parents somehow…</p>
<p>I applied to 12 schools, and while it was a ton of work doing applications and interviewing, I thought it was worth it in the end. I definitely preferred some schools over others, but all were places that I would go to. Make sure that you’d really want to go to any school you apply to!</p>
<p>I know some people advise an even number of matches, safeties, and reaches, but I don’t think there’s any exact formula. My own list of schools was very reach-heavy - 2 safety schools and the rest were high-matches or reaches.</p>
<p>I think that in any case my ultimate safety is going to be St. Thomas University (MN). It’s a smallish school, the campus is very nice, it has rolling admissions, and the avg. ACT/SAT/GPA are 25/1157mcr/3.6 (mine being 34/1370/3.97). I have a very good chance of getting in, and I’ll be able to apply as early as October and know the decision by November. Also, my dad is a professor there, which makes it about the most affordable university I’m likely to get, unless I get a free ride somewhere (which would be very, very good).</p>
<p>I don’t exactly want to go in-state, but it’s a good school and fits a lot of my other qualifications, including the 4 tokenadult posted above.</p>
<p>(Oh, and I am planning on paying for as many appy fees as I can myself… I feel bad making my parents pay for it all).</p>
<p>I am from Minnesota as well. I would for sure look into UW Madision. The best part about it is there is RECIPROCITY!!. So you pay in state tuition, for a school a little smaller and with great programs. I applied in september, as soon as the app came out, and heard within about two weeks! and I had similar stats as you</p>