<p>I know someone who has applied this season to 18 schools. Is this a record??</p>
<p>I know someone who applied to that many, 7 years ago, as reported to me by his mother.
I didn't ask how many he was accepted to, I imagine quite a few, but he just couldn't decide before he was accepted what he wanted.
He wouldn't have been eligible for any need aid, but some schools offered merit, and schools vary widely in their awards</p>
<p>Last spring, my son and I met a girl who had applied to 23 schools and been accepted at 17 or 18 of them. She and her father were a little bit sheepish about it, of course.</p>
<p>In her defense, she lived in Southern California and hadn't really seen any of the East Coast schools, so she just applied to, well, all of them (almost), and to a few West Coast schools, too. She also hadn't made up her mind on the LAC-Uni question, either, so she applied to a bunch of each. And, for the most part, the schools she had applied to were very selective, so she couldn't rationally have expected to get into almost all of them, notwithstanding that she was (obviously) a strong candidate.</p>
<p>Wow. I'm blown away. I would have thought someone would do a bit more research before applying to so many. It costs money to apply -- not just the school's application fee ($50 to $70 each), but also the cost of having SAT/ACT scores sent ($9.50 each), and AP reports (I think it's $15 per school), and transcripts from the HS (our school charges $5 per transcript). </p>
<p>Also, if you're accepted into a bunch and you really have no clue, then you have a horribly pressured April running around to see the schools.</p>
<p>21 schools...a very nice girl in my son's community orchestra who is completely brow beaten by crazy parents.</p>
<p>one girl from my high school applied to 22, she got in 20. </p>
<p>Some people are national scholar or state scholar or something like that, they are waived for admission fees and records fees and stuff. Plus, nowadays it's very convinient to go online and click to apply. But more than 15 is too much. I'd say 5-10 is a very good amount.</p>
<p>There was article in USN&WR (the issue with the latest rankings... I didn't buy it, my parents did) about some girl who applied to 31 schools, and it was obvious from her comments that she hadn't researched most of them. I can't remember where she ended up going; not HYPSM/DBCC/AWS or any other cute acronym, but a respectable private.</p>
<p>23... or 24.. (you lose count!) a friend, and I really couldn't argue with it, although I probably could have narrowed down the list a little. Kid is an excellent candidate and is applying to many top schools and realizes that there is a lottery component so they are buying many tickets. Kid loves most of the schools and they have visited them all. List did not include every Ivy, but several, along with several top LACs and several top universities.</p>
<p>forum member Tlaktan (sp?) I remember applied to a large # of schools, attending Georgetown I believe.</p>
<p>There are kids I know who applied to many schools because they wanted to get into a combined BA/MD program. These programs often necessitate double apps--so the numbers climb rapidly. Also since many of the colleges that sponsor these programs were not of interest to the applicants unless they got into the MD portion of the program, they felt they needed some schools in case they did not get into any combined programs. These kids had very high stats, and were strong candidates for the most selective colleges, but it was still very possible that they would not get into any MD programs as those numbers make Harvard's look good. In fact, a good friend of ours' son did end up at Harvard after being rejected by every single medical school. I believe he did 13 combined apps which came to 26 schools, and then another half dozen or more of colleges which met his reach/match/ safety standards and that he liked .</p>
<p>I think some people apply to a lot of schools for number of different reasons. I know a couple of cycles back a kid applied to 19 schools because he was part of the squeeze, not eligible for a lot of aid and his parents did nothave the money, so he looked at schools where he could get merit money.</p>
<p>I'd count that situation as only 13 apps, not 26.</p>
<p>What is DBCC?</p>
<p>And what's AWS?</p>
<p>AWS = Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore? except WAS in US News order.</p>
<p>DBCC ? I'll take a guess.... Duke? Berkeley? Chicago? Cal Tech? </p>
<p>Claude Debussy University?</p>
<p>my son's friend applied to 30+</p>
<p>I talked to a student at Vassar who applied to 28 4 years ago. But he was from Ethiopia, couldn't visit and had no idea who would accept him and give $$. He just got accepted to med school at Wash-U!</p>
<p>VeryHappy, when you have to repeat all the material on an extensive app on the medical school app and it goes to a whole different place with a different committee reviewing it, you consider it a separate app. Much more tedious than doing 10 common apps, and we do not count that as one app.</p>
<p>This is a story told by the counselor at S's school: a few years ago, a girl's parents went to thr counselor and told her that they wanted their D to apply to all the schools on the common app. They claimed that money was not a issue. Of course, the counselor talked them out of that. Eventually, the girl applied to 22 schools.</p>
<p>DBCC was Dartmouth/Brown/Columbia/Cornell. Sorry I didn't clarify.</p>
<p>When we were visiting Chapel Hill in Feb.2005, we met a girl from Florida who had applied to 40 schools, and was planning on visiting them all too!!!!!</p>