<p>If I apply to 11 schools (4 reach, 5 match, 2 safety), I will have to write 31 essays, including the common app essay, plus any extra supplements for home-schoolers. That's one essay per week until January 1st.</p>
<p>How many essays did you guys have to write for the college application process? Is 31 too many?</p>
<p>Writing 31 essays is way too much work, as you need to submit a polished essay to each school – not something easily do-able in a one-essay-per-week time frame, especially when you also need to keep-up your senior year grades. I would suggest revisiting your college list and seeing how many essays you can re-purpose and maybe eliminating some schools from your list.</p>
<p>FWIW: When my son applied to college three years ago, his goal was to write AS FEW essays as possible. So he crossed off any college that required him to write a specific lengthy essay for their school and wrote 3 major essays in total-- the Common App Personal Statement, the essay about an Extracurriclar Activity (which the Common App did away with last year, but that some schools are now requiring as part of their supplement), and an open-ended general purpose supplemental essay. With just those 3 essays he was to apply to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Georgetown, Williams, Pomona, Middlebury, Boston College, Vanderbilt and SUNY Binghamton. My daughter did the same thing two years before him with her list of colleges. </p>
<p>I was actually in a similar situation as you and wrote about 25 essays at the rate of one essay per week. I spent months on my common app but one week on each supplement. Hey if you are able to do it without sacrificing too much quality than go for it.</p>