<p>I live in Oklahoma, go to prestigious private school Holland Holl, am applying early decision to Hopkins. I am not cutting down tho cuz I like each school on my list.</p>
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<p>THE LIST</p>
<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
Berkley
Northwestern University </p>
<p>Tufts University
Tulane University
University of Notre Dame </p>
<p>University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
UC Santa Barbara </p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis </p>
<p>Colleges
American University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University </p>
<p>Carleton College
Bucknell University
Cornell University </p>
<p>Dartmouth College
Emory University
Haverford College </p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University - early decision
Kenyon College
Middlebury College
Princeton </p>
<p>Clarkson University
Yale
Clarke Universiy </p>
<p>Washington and Lee University
Harvard
Rice University
USC
University of Florida</p>
<p>to be honest, applying to 30 schools is crazy. it may make you feel better, but it shows a lack of ability to choose what you want. Honestly, a person who can narrow it down to 10 schools or less shows that they know what schools they know they want to attend and can succeed at. Especially if you have to list them to other colleges (as some require), its an immediate turn off. Your stats are similar to mine and I only have one thing to say, narrow it down, there are a lot of good schools I had to cross off because you have to make decisions!!! We all wish we could apply everywhere. AND ANOTHER THING, GOD HELP YOU ON FILLING AT THOSE APPS OUT, EVEN WITH THE COMMON APP!! </p>
<p>make some concessions, its a mature approach to college that is useful in decision making in life. just my two cents</p>
<p>btw, what do you even want to major in? I dont get it</p>
<p>You really should research each school and decide whether you could actually see yourself there. Plus those application fees will rack up like crazy. :(</p>
<p>For your sake, I hope you get into Hopkins. Otherwise, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you. </p>
<p>I’m not condemning you in any way. I just want to let you know that you really should narrow that down, even if you genuinely want all those schools. My list at one point contained 34 schools, and I couldn’t bear to cut any from the list. I decided to just apply to them all, but when I finally started the apps, I realized that I couldn’t do 34…or 20…or 15…it was a very leveling experience. Now my list contains eight schools. Once I get them out of the way, I might throw in a few more apps. Who knows? Anyway, my advice: Pick no more than 10 and make these your priority. Then, once you’re done with those, put in some more here and there. </p>
<p>I would have to agree with the posters above. It’s probably not worth it to waste all that money to pay for application fees, score reports, and all that stuff for colleges that you most likely aren’t even going to attend. In addition, people who are really passionate about one of those colleges might get rejected, as a result, due to the limited number of acceptances that colleges can give out.</p>
<p>wow. I thought I was crazy for applying to seven. and it’s ish hard to chance you if you give like no info besides where you want to go and SAT’s- in case you didn’t hear the news, colleges care more about more than that lol.</p>
<p>im applying to 9 and I thought I was nuts!!! u gotta define urself, its 1 thing to like the schools…its another 2 c urself going to them. See if u could spend the next 4 years of u life there…as pretty deep as that sounds its true…thats y not 2 many ppl apply 2 30 lol</p>
<p>I don’t know if you realize the sheer amount of work that applying 30 colleges will be! </p>
<p>First, most of those schools are prestigious, so most of them have their own supplements to the Common App, which means that, in a addition to your one Common App essay, you’ll probably have to write an additional 20-25 DIFFERENT essays that you have to individually craft to meet each college’s prompt. </p>
<p>Secondly, Costs! Application fees: 30x65= $1950.00, Sending SAT score reports: 26x9.50= $247.00. All in all, you’re looking at a cost of about $2200.00, that money could be put to much better use.</p>
<p>Thirdly, you have to decide what you’re really looking for in a college. The ones you listed are so enormously different from one another in size, geography, and demographics that it suggests you’ve done hardly any research outside of the USNews college rankings. Some are urban, some are rural. Some are research schools, some are liberal arts schools. Some are Southern, some are northern. You have to decide what sort of environment and location you want, then parcel down your list from there. </p>
<p>For instance, I really want to go to college in the city, I want to go to school with a good IR program, and I want to stay relatively North. Those three simple facts have narrowed my list down to about 8.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong looking for a prestigious school, and you’ll probably get accepted to at least a few of those schools listed, but PLEASE take some time, do your research and then apply to the schools that are left. You’ll be happy you did.</p>
<p>Very hard to believe anyone can produce 30 quality applications.</p>
<p>Frankly, you need to do the hard and decisive work now, if you truly know each of the schools it will be easy to cut the list.</p>
<p>If you have that much time on your hands retake the SATIIs and then the SATI. While a good score, your chances at the top schools on your list go way up with a 2250 plus.</p>
<p>no offense but that 68th percentile isn’t going to cut it for a lot of the school that you are applying to. and being OOS for the uc’s doesn’t help either</p>