@gibby Indeed! And on top of the application fees, score reporting fees and CSS profile fees, there are also the AP Test fees. And then there are the visits. Sheesh! My first 2 sons applied to 4 schools each. Our 3rd son, because most of his were reaches, applied to 6. (And even if expense weren’t an issue, we would expect them to keep the applications limited. You have to be genuinely excited about the school and I don’t see how that happens when one has a dozen schools in the list.) We have friends who are, roughly, in the same socioeconomic class and their daughter applied to 17! It is mind-boggling.