<p>Is applying to 8 schools to much?</p>
<p>I'm doing 13... part of the reason is that 9 of them I'm using the common app for.</p>
<p>what schools are you applying too?</p>
<p>Me 2--13 schools in all.</p>
<p>i'm thinking about yale, vassar, tufts, nyu, harvard, carnegie mellon, upenn, and cornell</p>
<p>Does anyone know how competitive vassar is for transfers?</p>
<p>I'm thinking about...
Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Penn, Amherst, Northwestern, UVA, Michigan, Claremont McKenna.
But I think I'm going to cut several from the list - the final list should have like 5-7 schools on it.</p>
<p>My list is:</p>
<p>UPenn
UMich
GTown
USC</p>
<p>And thru the common app:
BC
Babson
Brandeis
Case Western
Emory
George Washington
NYU
Washington St. Louis
William & Mary</p>
<p>im applying to 8- harvard, yale, columbia, upenn, georgetown SFS, duke, brown, cornell</p>
<p>hnbui- vassar is similar to brown or cornell in terms of transfer competition from what i understand</p>
<p>okay so atleast i have a chance. I'm just concern because they stated on their website that their transfer admission is not need blind.</p>
<p>I guess cornell would be the only school that I'm applying, was thinking of stanford, but the application scares me
I'm doing engineering, but don't really want to go to a state school, any ideas?</p>
<p>I have read, in many places, that the common application is not always the best mechanism for putting your hat in the race.</p>
<p>nspeds do you have any links or sources you can point to about that?</p>
<p>Penn, and most likely Brown, b/c I found their Community Health concentration(i'm applying to Penn's Health and Society major).</p>
<p>Lionsgate,</p>
<p>Perhaps the most reputable source was from a book by the founder of "IvyWise", a company that helps students gain admissions into the college that matches them. I am sure you can find it at Barnes and Noble. The author explicitly stated that using a proprietary application actually shows that you went out of your way for that specific university instead of just filling out a common application; it portrays a notion of distinction, which cannot be duplicated when using the common application. She even went as far as to quote an admissions officer about it.</p>
<p>At any rate, this advice is all specific to freshman applicants, not transfers. The framework for transfers could be entirely different.</p>
<p>Doesn't the common app website say colleges agreed to take the common app just as seriously?</p>
<p>Hell, I did it because I was so busy keeping my grades up and playing sports.</p>
<p>ClaySoul,</p>
<p>"I neither know, or think that I know," I am just regurgitating what I have seen and read; you may take it for a grain of salt if you desiderate.</p>
<p>for those who are applying to 5+ schools. How did you guys approach your professor and dean for the rec./statement of good standing. Did you guys just give them like some odd number of different forms?</p>
<p>i gave them a folder with the forms, instructions, a resume, due dates, and addressed stamped envelopes.</p>
<p>did you feel akward giving them that many rec forms? I mean i don't want to burden them and make then mad which in turn would result in a bad rec for me.</p>
<p>Also do you think 2 months is a good enough time for 10+ rec's?</p>
<p>I personally think that it is unfair to burden a person with 10+ Recs, it does not show ambition, but desperateness.</p>