<p>So, is the limit of the universities we can apply to via the common app 20?</p>
<p>What if I want to apply to more? </p>
<p>I can't?</p>
<p>You can apply to 20 per revision. If you look under help for the common app they describe how to create a separate rev - which can be an exact copy or modified copy of your app. You can then assign which schools go to a particular revision</p>
<p>per revision? I think you meant version. right?</p>
<p>And no, you can only apply to 20 regardless of the number of versions you make.</p>
<p>Quoted from the website: </p>
<p>“You will have a separate My Colleges page for each application version. Each institution can only be on the My Colleges list of one application version, and you can have a total of 20 institutions across all versions.”</p>
<p>So, there is NO way I can apply to more Universities via the common app? This worries me.</p>
<p>20 is plenty. Really.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. I know it is. </p>
<p>But I’m in a different situation here. I’m applying to BS/MD programs. And they are like 10 times tougher than Harvard. So, I’m applying to most of them. </p>
<p>So, the final verdict is that there is NO way to apply to more than 20?</p>
<p>A good friend’s sone is applying to BS-MD programs. I believe he applied to 7. Really, more than 20, especially with the potential need to do interviews for these programs, is unnecessary. Enjoy your senior year!</p>
<p>The limit only applies to apps you submit online through the common app website. In addition to the 20, you can apply to schools that don’t use the common app and schools where you submit by mail (even if they are common app schools). You GC and recommenders may not be happpy about the workload that extra non-common app school recs and forms puts on them, though.</p>
<p>Even if you’re doing BS/MD programs, you really shouldn’t need to go over 20</p>
<p>Im doing BS/MD programs too, and i had 9 of them. Out of that, only 3 were on through commonapp. So even if you apply to all of them, it shouldnt be over 20. Also, i would recommend against applying to all of them because you may get rejected from the ones that forward to the same med school. For example, you dont want to apply to 3 programs (all filtering into the same med school, which does the final review of the app), when one focuses on leadership, another on service and the third on humanities. Maybe just the last two, or just the first two are okay, but i have heard of a case where a kid was rejected because albany saw that the kid applied to all three and from the completely different essays looked like a 3 faced liar. Be honest, be good, be true. </p>
<p>You really dont deserve to get into any of them.</p>
<p>^It’s funny how you hastily asssume so much. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, thank you for your inputs everyone.</p>
<p>if you make an entirely new account (new user name, etc), you can apply to more than 20 schools!</p>
<p>^^ is that allowed??</p>
<p>AND, wont the school counselor etc have to upload everything again??</p>
<p>You can’t make a new user account in the same school year.</p>
<p>i mean, 3 people from my class managed to do it (they’re applying into 8-year med programs in addition to other schools). </p>
<p>worst case scenario, you can just use those “priority applications” or school-specific, non-common applications for the schools that won’t fit on your 1st common app account. granted, you’ll have to copy/paste all of your information, which would be annoying but doable.</p>
<p>but good luck with whatever you end up deciding to do!</p>