<p>ree: have you been eavesdropping in my house 
? I had a very similar chat with my D last night. After we both did the initial school research her list is at 36; we’ll have “real” test scores in October, but right now everything on the list looks like it could be in play, at least as much as those schools are for everyone. We have things like average high and low January temps on there (but she’s not ready to cut schools for that yet.) </p>
<p>I know junior year is going to be full, so I asked her to start looking at the online tours & the department websites for the schools, along with guidebooks and college p r owler. She asked me “how many should I cut?” and I told her I didn’t think there was a hard number yet, but that she should probably be down to about 20 by January and then 10-15 by next May.</p>