<p>How much time did your student require to complete his/her college applications?</p>
<p>Include writing and revising the essay, completing supplements, filling out the applications, listing activities and so on, but not preparing/taking the SAT/ACT/ACT II/APs, etc., requesting transcripts and that kind of stuff.</p>
<p>I would say my daughter spent maybe 10 hours to apply to 7 schools (four using the common app).</p>
<p>What was your mileage??</p>
<p>Forever!!!!! And they're not even done. :(</p>
<p>Amazing job Fendrock! I went through it three times for undergrad and once for grad so far with my kids and all could only be described as months. From development of list, visits, refinement of list, consults with school counselor, info sessions, drafts of essays, SAT retakes.......it's seems like my last 7 years has been spent overseeing these activities! My youngest spent I'd estimate 50 plus hours over 4 months on his essay.</p>
<p>I'd say my Ds each spent about a dozen hours on their first couple apps - crafting and refining essays, compiling activities and honors, estimating hours of community service, etc. After that, all the materials were at hand on the computer, and it was a fairly quick matter of adapting the essays, activities, et al to the format of the particular app.</p>
<p>Weeks for D#1, partly due to school workload, partly to extra school-specific essays required by the colleges she applied to, and partly due to GC's requirements. For D#2 perhaps forty hours spread over a month -- her GC was basically AOL, so much more was done electronically.</p>
<p>10 hours is low relative to my D last year, she did common app for all. Essays took time. However, for someplace like the PSU basic app, that takes very little time, 30 minutes or so. Depends on school.</p>
<p>Depends on the school, number of apps - and the kid, sigh. Some obssess over them, others have parents who spend more time nagging their kid to do it than s/he spends on it...</p>
<p>Yes, it does depend on the school. Both my S's applied to State schools only, some with an optional essay, some with no essay at all. In most cases it was just a matter of filling in the blanks online and sending the transcripts. S2 ,who had been dreading it, was surprised at how simple his two state u. apps. were. I would say a couple of hours total for each kid.</p>
<p>"forever" sounds like a good estimate... Good thing there are some deadlines that have to be met...</p>
<p>fendrock, our son spent about the same amount of time as you indicated and he to took max advantage of the CommonApp. He did not over work his college essay either, though he probably thought a lot about it before he began actually writing it, a thing he often does to this day.</p>