<p>That subject line was awkwardly written...sorry! But I just found out about a kid who is applying to 30 schools. Wow!</p>
<p>Have you heard about anyone applying to this large a number of schools?</p>
<p>I sure hope that student who applied to 30 schools got some application fees waived :).
Wow.</p>
<p>The most I have heard of here is 18, that was actually 2 years ago.</p>
<p>My son applied to 15. His profile was uneven and the admission results showed it-- he was accepted/waitlisted/rejected as very similarly ranked schools.</p>
<p>On a college tour with my son, we met a young woman (and her father) who had applied to 24 colleges and been accepted at 20. They were from the San Diego area. She thought she wanted to go to college in the East, but wasn’t sure, so she applied to a few California colleges, too. They hadn’t had time to visit widely on the East Coast, so she pretty much applied everywhere (Ivies +, and 9-10 top Northeastern LACs) and thought she would visit the places that accepted her. Obviously, they knew she was a good student, but they were not really plugged in to the college admissions world, and they assumed she would be much less competitive than she was. In the end, they spent a week visiting 5 or 6 colleges (some unis, some LACs). I turned out she didn’t really like urban schools, really small schools, schools that looked too old. When we left her she was basically down to a choice between Princeton and Stanford (which she HAD visited before applying).</p>
<p>Eighteen schools.</p>
<p>S2 started out with 24 under consideration, but has it down to ten. One of his classmates is applying to 16.</p>
<p>A side question if I may-- as a general rule, is it safer to apply to more schools if your stats aren’t stellar?</p>
<p>BfloGal, if you apply to a couple of safeties, you don’t need to apply to more schools. For the most part people who apply to many schools either are avoiding decisions, need to compare money offers, or have very uneven stats (high grades and low scores or vice versa) making admissions predictions difficult.</p>
<p>BfloGal, look for some older threads on this. There are some good reasons to apply to more schools than the average, including those who are trying to gain admittance to highly selective schools or programs, and those who need to compare Financial Aid Offers. There are bad reasons, too.</p>
<p>Thanks mathmom and Hunt. My prediction for our S (currently a HS sophomore), is the following:
- low GPA (maybe ~2.8, or 3.0 if the stars are aligned)
- avg to slightly above avg SATs (he does better on standardized tests than in the classroom)
- we will need no financial aid
So, based on that, how many schools would you suggest? Thanks.</p>
<p>With that profile, you may not need a lot of schools, especially if you have good public options in your state.</p>
<p>It’s really to early to tell, it depends on what appeals to him when the time comes, but most kids really do fine with around 6 applications.</p>
<p>6 would do it but I would go for 8. 2 safetys, 4 matches, 2 reaches. Focus on your matches-- they’re harder to predict.</p>
<p>my friend in california is applying to 19!!</p>
<p>Can you apply to that many schools with the common app?
I have 20 schools on mine and I tried to add another but it said its maxed out…did they apply by paper?</p>
<p>i’ve heard 22(every Ivy plus UChicago, MIT, CalTech, William and Mary, Tulane, Pitt, Penn State, Swat, and others)
Got into 14</p>
<p>Our D applied to 22 with 14 acceptances. I don’t recommend it!!</p>
<p>my HS this year i think has one girl doing 12
majority are under six</p>
<p>My niece applied to 22 schools – and had 18 acceptances. Personally, I think she was nuts to do so many!</p>
<p>I can’t afford too many application fees - both daughters applied to 6 and older son applied to 3.</p>
<p>All three are good students, but younger daughter was auditioning for BFA programs and only got into one program (although two other schools accepted her academically, and into honors programs). </p>
<p>A friend’s stepdaughter applied to 17.</p>