<p>Who else attend schools that limit the number of applications you can send out to colleges? My school only allows me to apply to 7 colleges. For me 7 colleges is enough to apply to, but I know a lot of people who would rather take the time and apply to more. Who else has that at their schools? Does anyone know why they do it?</p>
<p>Is it a big school, yeah that would be bogus, I applied to twelve, I would personally hate the school, I mean would they have a right to do this is or this just a recommendation cause personally I would bypass that if possible. But hmmm, so you can prob tell that we do not have a limit at our school.</p>
<p>I've never heard of such a thing.</p>
<p>My school also doesn't do that, and it would bug me as well because I don't feel comfortable applying to fewer than 8. A lot of it is so iffy. 4 reaches, 3 matches, and a safety on my list right now.</p>
<p>That is absolute BS. Apply to more.</p>
<p>Seriously, challenge the system, on what grounds would they prevent you from wanting to feel a sense of comfort, and what reasonable reasons to they have from preventing you to do what you want. Also, looking back, had this happened I probably wouldn't have applied where I'm going and had I know this I would probably hate my school for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>two reasons...to do less paperwork and to think that maybe they are stopping the frenzy</p>
<p>it is time consuming to do transcripts, etc, but doing 7 or doing 10, there is no real difference...to copy, stamp etc</p>
<p>if you applied to more, would they not send in your transcript? My goodness, that would not be fair</p>
<p>You should contact the local school board with some statistics to back you up</p>
<p>Maybe offering to pay a dollar for each transcript past the 7 limit may work</p>
<p>Good look and fight it!!</p>
<p>Wow, that dollar thing sounds really smart [not sarcasm]</p>
<p>that's ridiculous. our GCs probably don't advocate applying to more than 9 or so but I am anyway... there's no rule against it</p>
<p>I do know of some private schools that don't exactly have rules limiting the number but they try to get people into the 1 ivy league (or other top notch) school they really want to go to and try to encourage them not to apply to others so their classmates have a better chance... if that makes sense</p>
<p>citygirlsmom: thats what they do here. you get 5 free and its $2 for each college after that.</p>
<p>At my school they wouldn't dare do that. The average kid probably applies to 8-10 schools here. I'm sure guidance counselors would encourage students to apply to fewer schools - especially if they're looking at more than 15. But they wouldn't take any action. They really can't.</p>
<p>Besides, as citygirlsmom said, it's only a matter of paperwork. Our counselors write our college recs over the summer, and we have to give teachers a few weeks notice (there's some minimum - I can't remember right now) to get a rec in on time. I don't think they really mind us applying to more schools. In fact, they may encourage it so that the school looks better when we get more acceptances.</p>
<p>Yeah that sounds completely BS to me. Take it to the school board or have your parents complain- esp if it's a public school. Show some activism! By gosh people in this country are apathetic.</p>
<p>My school didn't limit, but they charged $3 per transcript (including midyear reports) and you had to check up on them like crazy. We have to give them the stamped envelopes so I had every school paperclipped together and all in a bright colored folder. I still had to go in once a week to doublecheck things and my counselor didn't even get around to looking at anything until the week before counselor recs were due. </p>
<p>Oh well.. my counselors were a joke... mine had NO IDEA where/ what Brandeis, Colgate, Lehigh, or William and Mary were and kept telling me that she was "sure I could get into UGA and why not try applying there?"</p>
<p>Your counselors are lazy and don't want to do extra paperwork.</p>
<p>My school doesn't limit the number of schools you apply to, but that's because of the 500 kids in our school, about 20 kids apply to more than 10 schools. Most people just send in one application to a state university or community college, or they don't go to college.</p>
<p>It's not just the transcripts and rec letter requests for college admission that stress out school staff but reqs for scholarships and summer program apps for 9th-11th graders. It's real easy for the 1 or 2 staff people in the registrar's office the feel overwhelmed, especially in a large school.</p>
<p>WHAT?! What kind of a school would do that? That's so unfair!</p>
<p>It's your choice if you want to send 20 applications or just 1. My school definitely doesn't do that (as far as I'm concerned)</p>
<p>stuyvesant.</p>
<p>sorry to say, but I think it makes more sense now.</p>