I've applied to 11. Has anyone done more than me?

Applying to College
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<p>My list (in alphabetical order):</p>

<p>Caltech
Carnegie Mellon
Colorado School of Mines
Florida Tech
GeorgiaTech
Illinois Tech
John Hopkins
MIT
UT (Texas)
Texas A&M
WashU (in Seattle)</p>

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<p>I doubt if you are in the top 1/3. My D wasn't even showing signs of slowing down at 11. LOL.</p>

<p>But on the bright side you have a nice tech-y list with varying selectivities.</p>

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<p>i have 15 </p>

<p>4 matches (alreayd in pennstate)
11 reaches</p>

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<p>My son made 11 applications. Since he got into his EA school, he is withdrawing one, which is a safety.</p>

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<p>22 schools.</p>

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<p>22 beats me. i'm 17.</p>

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<p>I'm applying to 12.</p>

<p>My friend is applying to 24.</p>

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<p>You all are actually paying application and/or SAT score processing fees for 11 to 24 schools?</p>

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<p>XD Both the 22 and the 24 beat me, surprisingly. I applied to 20 schools. I finished the last of mine a couple hours ago. <em>happy</em></p>

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<p>my friend applied to 18, tho he (or, rather, his parents) ended up paying for only 12 of them, as 6 of them are in the UK (and they don't need any of this nonsense)...</p>

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<p>I applied to 24 (including RD, ED and EA), I applied to so many I had to make a new account on the Common App site to get around their 20 school limit.</p>

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<p>holy crap.
my school has a limit
we can only apply to 4 private(ivy,etc) schools and 2 public (state, etc)</p>

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<p>Those of you who apply to 10+ schools, why so many?</p>

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<p>For some it is pure vanity. Trophy hunting. Some have an easy way to apply to a grouping of schools (UC's. ApplyTexas, etc). </p>

<p>But by and large some are chasing merit aid and are casting a wide net hoping to snag one of 3 -20 big scholarships . Some are trying to find a place to continue a favorite EC like basketball and aren't sure how the coach feels about them. Some are afraid of how a school calculates EFC at 100% of need, need only schools . Some are applying only to schools with admission rates below 30% . And finally some are trying to work on all (or most) of these planes at once. Multi-variable and uncalculatable, so you just cover the field.</p>

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<p>OR we freak out and panic about not getting into ANY schools, so we keep applying to more and more until things snowball out of control into one gigantic mass of application fees and bad essays. </p>

<p>well, that's how it went down for me.</p>

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<p>24 schools? That's social suicide.</p>

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<p>my brother applied 20schools</p>

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<p>one girl at my school is doing 23</p>

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<p>Applying to more than 10 schools is just crazy in my opinion. I mean, is it really necessary?</p>

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<p>Oh crap. I applied to 9 and I thought I was casting a wide net for merit aid. The more I think about it, the more I think I might be screwed for college.</p>