<p>Some college apps have the question: 'what other colleges are you applying to ?'
How should one answer this question? Will it hurt if I list all the colleges I plan to apply to ? Or will it help if they see that the others are as competitive as this one, or perhaps even more selective?</p>
<p>I always figured it was best to answer truthfully (especially because most applications require a signature stating you verify the truth of everything written on the application...), but today I saw a few instances of people on CC admitting to picking and choosing.</p>
<p>Funny how that works, I guess.</p>
<p>I picked and chose. I used other safeties with my safeties, other matches for matches, etc</p>
<p>I picked and chose as well. For chicago, I tried to show the other more "intellectual" schools such as swarthmore, haverford, etc.</p>
<p>S listed them all.</p>
<p>S did the same....You can analyze that to death and still don't know the real motive behind that question.</p>
<p>DS listed them all. They were going to show up on the FAFSA anyway. He was honest and just listed them. BTW...he got accepted at all but one (and that was an out of state U).</p>