Practical Advice

<p>Yea, that's fine. Commonapp allows for many more applications without lowering quality, but the point is to do better on fewer than do many bad ones.</p>

<p>Even so, watch out. Out of the 19 schools I applied to, 17 were on common app. EVEN SO, I died during app time. You have to remember the supplements. True, there are some schools that you can recycle essays on, and some schools have minimal supplements, but mostly, those supplements can be a bch.</p>

<p>I know your 7 is nowhere near my 17, but be careful. If I could do app season again (not that I want to), I would definitely have cut back on the # of colleges I applied to, cut back on the reach schools, and added way more match schools.</p>

<p>I'm probably only applying to the holy trinity of southern california (ucb/ucla/uci)</p>

<p>Reviving this thread one last time right before people get their admissions crap done because I remember doing mine all during Xmas break.</p>