<p>I live in Oklahoma, go to prestigious private school Holland Holl, am applying early decision to Hopkins. how do i cut down my list I am not cutting down tho cuz I like each school on my list.</p>
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<p>I live in Oklahoma, go to prestigious private school Holland Holl, am applying early decision to Hopkins. thanks.</p>
<p>sat 2 percentiles: 90, 68
sat 1: 2190
gpa: good, go to tough private school so calss rank isnt that god but according to naviance its solidly in range for the schools im applying to</p>
<p>UChicago
Lafayette
UCLA </p>
<p>Davidson College<br>
Berkley
Northwestern University </p>
<p>Tufts University<br>
Tulane University<br>
University of Notre Dame </p>
<p>University of Virginia<br>
Vanderbilt University<br>
UC Santa Barbara </p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis </p>
<p>Colleges
American University<br>
Bowdoin College<br>
Brandeis University </p>
<p>Carleton College<br>
Bucknell University<br>
Cornell University </p>
<p>Dartmouth College<br>
Emory University<br>
Haverford College </p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University - early decision
Kenyon College<br>
Middlebury College
Princeton </p>
<p>Clarkson University
Yale<br>
Clarke Universiy </p>
<p>Washington and Lee University<br>
Harvard<br>
Rice University
USC
University of Florida</p>
<p>Well ,the thing is that I like certain aspects about each school.</p>
<p>I love USC because it’s in California and I could hang near the beach and cheer on an incredible football team; I love football.</p>
<p>same with UCLA, plus it’s near a beach.</p>
<p>I love Bowdoin because it is really beautiful and is such a tight-knit community where I could receive lots of personal attention.</p>
<p>I love Rice cuz of the residential college system and small community feel.</p>
<p>I like big schools AND small schools, the only schools I don’t like are schools like George Washington, Columbia, and NYU, where they are to integrated into the city.</p>
<p>If you haven’t yet, start writing the required essays for all those colleges. Then see if there’s a school that you feel isn’t worth you spending hours writing an essay on.</p>
<p>How will you afford the application fees? How about all the money it will take to send your scores? Who is paying? Wouldn’t you like to use the money in a more effective way?</p>
<p>the thing is though that all my essays I can just copy and paste.</p>
<p>for kenyon it asks what would you hammer with a chisel, for uva it asks what is ur fav word, I copy and pasted my “experiences and perspectives essay” for rice for those apps and it was easy.</p>
<p>I also copied my Cornell app essay for the Rice and Hopkins applications.</p>
<p>this doesn;t have to be a ■■■■■.
i’ve seen kids do this before.
APPLY TO ALL OF THEM and wait for any rejection letter. That will cut down the list for you.</p>
<p>lol because there are so many colleges many people have a hard time choosing the best one
30 x 50 (approximately) = 1500 $$ wow, u can buy the most modern and best cell phone or even laptop with that amount of money
I think first u should consider the major at each school, seeing if the school offers the degree u want, then consider aid, then area/region around school. when u have a final list, pick the best of them to apply. when u have a list of those accepting u, pick the best one. thats how i do</p>
<p>i dont think there are many
most kids when they see the huge amount of application fee, they cut the list down
even if people are well off, their parents pay so they don’t care :D</p>
<p>It’s not so easy to “recycle” essays for these specific supplements. The only time I recycled my essays was for “why do you want to study Subject X?” All the other times were very special and unique to each school, specifically catering to what Northwestern had to offer me versus what Duke had to offer me, etc. </p>
<p>I just don’t see how you can write about your favorite word and what you would use to hammer with a chisel that would seamlessly fit into discussing your experiences and backgrounds. I mean, maybe two out of three could be answered with the same essay, but not all three.</p>
<p>However, I admit there are times when you can recycle a generally broad essay - like the Rice one of experiences and diverse backgrounds - with another essay; I’ll be honest, I used the Rice essay I used for that same prompt when I applied for the Plan II Honors program at UT (and I got into both, so hey I was lucky). So, actually this was the second time I recycled essays. But for everything else, I worked on separate, individual essays for each school (I applied to 12 schools total last year).</p>
<p>Not to mention taking into account the financial cost of applying to a high number of schools, but the amount of TIME needed to really churn out some great essays and spend quality time for each. Quality over quantity - several excellent essays over a dozen mediocre ones.</p>
<p>If there’s no extra supplement or if there’s relatively little in the supplement to complete (that is, no additional essays), then it won’t hurt to spend another $50 - but that’s another $50 out of your pocket per college application.</p>
<p>However, if there IS more work and more essays to be written, then you really have to ask yourself if it’s worth your time, money, and effort to apply to such and such school. You only get as much out of applying as you put into it.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before, I applied to 12 schools and worked my entire winter break. I probably could’ve applied to 3-4 more, but I’m not going to speculate much on it (it all really depends on which schools anyways). </p>
<p>Bottom line is, 30 schools is way too much and I think anyone can see that. I would recommend you to cut your list in half at least, and even then, seriously ask yourself WHY exactly you’re applying to each school. As someone who’s applied to 12 schools, 15 schools is definitely doable but you HAVE to know precisely why you’re applying to each school otherwise it’s just a waste of your time, effort, and money as well as the admissions’ time as well. </p>
<p>Do your homework. Research and ask questions. Eliminate schools that don’t make the cut.</p>
<p>If the average cost per school is 45 bucks, it will still be less than 1400 bucks.</p>
<p>Compare it to cost of tuition and its not that big a deal.</p>
<p>cost of sending scores honestly isnt that much, maybe 300 all together (because Cornell, kenyon, wash u superscore the act I’m sending scores)"</p>
<p>i’m sorry but that just got me laughing…especially the “parents paying” part.</p>
<p>i guess different ppl just have different perceptions about what amount of $ qualifies as ‘big of a deal’. b/c to me, that’s a ridiculous amount of money. and saying something like “parents paying” just says a lot about the person…no offence but my parents work hard to earn the money they earn. i would and should have respect for them</p>
<p>anyway, definitely please cut down the list to a MAX of 10-15. i don’t think it’s worth it. besides, like all the other previous posters have suggested, those schools are quite different from one another. have you visited all of 'em? that part alone is difficult.</p>
<p>What major do you want to study? School size? Location preference?Urban, non-urban?Weather? Start with a list of things you want out of a college and then people on CC can help you narrow down your list.</p>
<p>30 is way too many. WAY too many. It’s a waste of your time and money.
Think about what would happen if you got accepted to each of those schools. Would you seriously be considering each one? There’s a difference between liking a school and wanting to spend four years of your life there. Also, try to find another deciding factor: cost, distance from home, etc. Use this as a resource to help get a smaller list.
But the number needs to come down.</p>
