<p>3 schools
2 safeties (PSU and MSU)
1 other-Cornell (generally known as a reach, esp. b/c no one in my school goes to ivies
but admid officer told me b/c i live on a farm and want to study ag i was just
about guaranteed, but ill hear in feb. i guess)</p>
<p>7 total</p>
<p>3 safeties
2 matches
2 reaches</p>
<p>10, my parents were ****ed besides 3 waivers, they had to pay mad bank for the 7 application fees</p>
<p>3 reaches, 2 safties, 5 matches</p>
<p>11...
funny how i was originally planning on just applying to one ED</p>
<p>Five - 2 safeties, 3 reaches</p>
<p>My observation is that students wanting to stay in our hometown apply to 2 or 3, students wanting to stay in the state apply to 4 to 5 and students wanting to go out of state apply to 10+.</p>
<p>3 safeties - in with merit $$ at all of them.
2 match schools - unknown result
5 reach schools - unknown
2 uber-reach schools - interview at one went very well - lasted almost 3 hours. Other, no interview was scheduled.</p>
<p>5 schools: one of them I'm already accepted to cuz of ELC in Cali, and the other ones are all reaches, more or less. My HS isnt a UC feeder, so anyone here goin to a big name college is huge news lol</p>
<p>4 total. 2 safeties (one I got in EA and don't want to go to, really, but they already gave me merit money), one reachish RD, and then one reachish EDII.
All of them are at least 5 hours away from my hometown, so dsultemeier's theory is either wrong, or I'm special.</p>
<p>13
4 safeties (got into 2 so far)
4 matches
5 reaches</p>
<p>12</p>
<p>I didnt apply to any super reaches, my problem is that i applied to four safeties.</p>
<p>Still being introduced into the college applying process as a junior. </p>
<p>How is applying to 4 reaches a problem/ negative?</p>
<p>8 (9 if you could the ED rejection)</p>
<p>4 reaches (some further than others)
2 or 3 matches
1 or 2 safeties</p>
<p>(obviously, it's not exactly clear where one of his school's fall exactly).</p>
<p>I applied to four universities total. Even though I live in North Carolina, I only applied to one in-state school. I prefer Florida's weather compared to NC's or especially the North-East. I did not want to attend any reach universities either.</p>
<p>UNC-CH, UCF, UF, and USF</p>
<p>2 Matches - UNC (deferred), UF (waiting)
2 Safeties- UCF (just applied), USF (just applied)</p>
<p>9 schools:
3 reaches (EDI rejected, EDII hear from within week)
3 matches
3 safeties (2/2 accepted so far)</p>
<p>1 Safety, 4 Matches, 2 Reaches</p>
<p>This was whittled down from my 13-college list after the EA round.</p>
<p>
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How is applying to 4 reaches a problem/ negative?
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I believe three comments would typically be made ... if you submit too many applications then you can not do an excellent job on all of them ... if you submit 7-8-9 and have 4 reaches then you do not have a balanced set of applications ... if you pick too many reaches then you you took a shot gun approach and did not focus on the schools that fit really well.</p>
<p>I do not necessarily agree with those thoughts. If an applicant is shooting at top tier schools, shooting for merit aid, or applying for speciality schools (music or architecture for example) ... schools with very low acceptance rates ... I think students who apply to only 2-3 of these schools are make it quite likely they do not get into one of them. If an applicant is applying to low acceptance schools I believe appying to more like 6-8 reaches makes sense as long as they are fits and a quality job can be done on the applications.</p>
<p>16 i think. Two state safeties, two out of state safeties, then the rest are high high reaches. I don't want to have any regrets about not having applied to some school, but I think I might already have them...</p>
<p>15 or so.</p>
<p>5ish states (safeties, lots of money awarded), 3 safeties, 5 top tiers (1 safety, 3 matches, 1 reach), and a couple others.</p>
<p>I applied to ten.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, University of Michigan, University of Virginia</p>