<p>My parents think anything more than 5 or 6 schools is too much. My college advisor at school says no more than 10. However, I'm looking at 2 in state, 10 out of state when I apply next fall and was wondering what other's here think. </p>
<p>I applied to 4:
1 in-state public, 1 in-state private, 1 in-state Ivy, and 1 out-of-state private.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that out-of-state schools will be more expensive and sometimes more difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Our son applied to 11 – his in-state safety, 4 free ones including one he really likes, and 5 reach schools. 10 is a nice limit if you are applying to a lot of reaches. After all, if you are going to roll the dice, you want to roll more than once.</p>
<p>Lol, filthy casuals…</p>
<p>2 in-state public
1 out-of-state public
18 out-of-state private (5 paid applications, 13 free LAC applications)</p>
<p>20 commonapps, 1 extra for my main in-state public</p>
<p>@immasenior I know someone at my school who has that attitude. He has above average grades and exam scores. Truthfully, he is right at the 50th percentile for our best state school. But he has applied to 15/20 schools, most of them reaches, with the roll the dice mentality and has faired fairly well.</p>
<p>@immasenior gets it. </p>
<p>23 schools.<br>
18 common app 5 non</p>
<p>@collegeappstory That’s my plan. I have about about ten high match/reaches in my list and only a couple matches, and a few safeties. </p>
<p>Of the schools that I would be totally happy attending, 2 are matches and 7 are reaches.</p>
<p>@immasenior I fell the same way. Although I don’t think I’ll apply to 20, maybe more like 15.</p>
<p>Honestly, that’s probably a better idea. I only really care about ten of the schools; the other ten I applied to in case of huge merit scholarship.</p>
<p>Find your safety first. Then you can eliminate other schools from your list if you would not choose them over your safety under any circumstances.</p>
<p>You can also eliminate other schools from your list if you run their net price calculators and see that they are too expensive, and find that they have no large-enough in-reach merit scholarships.</p>