<p>I chose USC over NYU, Tulane Honors, and Loyola Chicago…
My top choice was Northwestern and I got rejected… and of course I would have LOVED to go to Harvard.</p>
<p>I can’t believe so many people chose USC over Northwestern! I guess it’s because of the weather/social life</p>
<p>Now I feel really lucky to have gotten into USC</p>
<p>Georgia Girl: I actually applied to 27 schools but I got rejected from Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Swartmore, and Georgetown and waitlisted to Columbia and Washington and Lee. NAU, Tulane, Drexel, and Whitworth sent free applications and I didn’t have to write essays. Then for Emory, UChicago, Amherst, GWU, UMiami, Colgate I just reused essays. Then for Duke and Vassar I just didn’t write any essays, but for the rest of them I just wrote new essays. But yeah, the months of December and January were hell. :P</p>
<p>Confused,
It is still interesting you put forth that much effort. I am glad USC does not have the common application. </p>
<pre><code> One of the students on Facebook only applied to SC. What confidence!
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<p>Here is one I found…</p>
<p>This is pretty depressing. I wouldn’t get into like 90% of these schools, let alone USC.</p>
<p>nsb,
One of the posters wondered about other schools students considered. I was able to find this thread. Note it is two years old. If you read the list you will see art students listed a different range of schools from music or engineering majors. There is quite a range of schools mentioned. Some students listed every college of interest and others just their top choices.</p>
<p>Son chose USC over Cornell, Berkeley, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, UVA, RISD and Michigan. SO excited for USC!</p>
<p>I chose USC over IU and UVA. Got rejected by Columbia and waitlisted to Penn. Sone of you guys are making me feel like a slacker only applying to five schools…</p>
<p>Why would anyone apply to more than 5 colleges? That’s insane. You pick 1 for sure, 2 probable, and 2 reach schools. I chose USC (probably) over Cal (reach), UNC (reach-OOS), UCLA (probably), and Oklahoma(for sure.) I would have been happy going to any of these schools, even OU. No stress at all! I got accepted to all of them. I can’t even fathom doing 10, much less 27 apps.</p>
<p>I don’t know - I don’t think it’s insane to apply to more than five. ANYONE can get rejected from any school. Reading the threads of kids who have been rejected from the schools my son applied to makes us incredibly thankful for every single acceptance. There was a thread on another school by a dad whose daughter (who had fantastic stats - 2380 SAT or something crazy good like that) was rejected from all five schools they applied to. I felt for them. Looking at her stats and her list of schools you would have thought she’d be fine. I think 24 is excessive, but 8-10 is cautious/realistic about the subjectiveness of college admissions.</p>
<p>xeno, some families will depend on financial aid, and the packages offered by different schools can vary dramatically. You don’t get to know how much of the award will be loans, how much will be grants, and how they evaluate EFC until after you are admitted. There are also schools with merit awards for top students, again you won’t know if you get one unless you apply. For such students, it is not uncommon to apply to 12 schools, be admitted to 7 and find only 1 or 2 are affordable.</p>