<p>I know someone who has applied this season to 18. I'm wondering if that's a record.</p>
<p>Hello? Hello? Somebody's gotta know someone with a huge number of apps.</p>
<p>30+ 10char</p>
<p>49 all 1-49 on US news</p>
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<p>Wow I hope this person had a fee waiver.
Because otherwise they had to spend thousands of dollars!</p>
<p>Same with the 30+ person :]</p>
<p>25 dunno bout fee wavier</p>
<p>Oh my gosh. 49 effing colleges?!? Are they insane?!? Even 25...heck, even 18! That is absolutely RIDICULOUS. </p>
<p>My friend applied to 13...she was exahausted. I don't know how someone could do all that while still keeping their grades up, being dedicated to their ECs, and still managing to squeeze in a social life. Crazy.</p>
<p>There's no way I'd ever apply to that many colleges...seriously, you can easily narrow the top 50 U.S. News colleges down to 10 that you're really interested in...that'd take a lot less time than filling out 50 applications. Some people are just stupid</p>
<p>"Some people are just stupid"</p>
<p>Maybe that's why they had to apply to so many schools -- just to make sure they'd get in somewhere!</p>
<p>But I agree. I think a little planning could have reduced the number of apps significantly. Has the Common App really made it so much easier to apply everywhere? There are still all the supps to do . . .</p>
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<p>One of my friends applied to 14...she was so exhausted by it. But whoever applied to 50 is crazy. How could you do that? That person must have had almost no life. Plus it's expensive and it must have kept the guidance office real busy.</p>
<p>And yes, the Common App makes apps a heck of a lot easier, but the supplements still take quite a bit of time to do, there could be an extra essay or short answers.</p>
<p>49? That's quite... unhealthy. I applied to 9 and I barely made it. (7 using the common app, but the supplements were lengthy)</p>
<p>I know a few kids applying to at least 15.</p>
<p>I know someone who applied to 30. She had a whole binder/folder thing devoted just to college apps. </p>
<p>And I don't think she had a fee waiver.. so all those app fees plus the cost of sending test scores to 30 different colleges...</p>
<p>Makes me glad I only applied to a nice, sensible seven.</p>
<p>I heard someone apply to 21...and get rejected from all of them a few years back. She ended up enrolling at a community college.</p>
<p>I applied to 14 and was pretty tired but I hardly have any hw or any studying to go just because the teachers let us slide with that stuff and still maintain high grades, so I was able to do my apps., but it is pretty tiring, my friend decided to do more than 20 though</p>
<p>It's a little amusing, a little sad, and a little ironic that a fair amount of kids out there apply to 10+ schools, get rejected or waitlisted from all of them, and end up at generic local school because they never stopped to consider a safety school.</p>
<p>I mean, if you're that dedicated to spending $500-1000 on application fees, at least apply to 2 or 3 schools you KNOW you can get in to avoid complete devastation on April 1.</p>
<p>I applied to 12 schools, but 3 were early/rolling "locks" (2 of them free to apply to) that pretty much ensured I would be in 25% of my schools before December was out. And I also got in my dream school early, which boosted that up to 33.33%.</p>
<p>As Kenny Rogers sang in the Gambler, "if you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right."</p>
<p>This year I believe the highest number is 15. I'm applying to 10.
Two years ago someone applied to 23 schools.</p>
<p>I couldn't imagine the workload and burden that comes with 49 schools, I struggled with my bare 5 and most of the struggling was with just one school..</p>
<p>In California, it's pretty easy to amass a large number of applications using only a few actual applications. For the UCs, for example, there are 9 undergraduate universities, a common application, and then you simply check the boxes of the UC's you want to apply to and the majors. In other words, it's pretty simple -- the application even has the cost depending on how many you apply to. For the Cal. States, the first application takes about an hour to complete (no essay), then for each additional college, you simply plug in the school because the application is filled in from the first one. I'm thinking there's about 13 Cal States, so with two applications, so to speak (UC and Cal. State), you could feasibly apply for 22 colleges and universities in California in a couple of hours (and about $1,000).</p>