<p>I'm only applying to four.</p>
<p>In my opinion, you should apply to seven MAX.</p>
<p>3 reaches, 3 matches, and 1 safety.</p>
<p>People are irrationally scared.</p>
<p>"Better safe than sorry" I guess.</p>
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<p>OH I C</p>
<p>I'm not scurredd.</p>
<p>EDIT: This post jumping thing gets oldddddd.</p>
<p>This is a competative age. If you want to get ahead, you have to utalize all of your options, which means apply to as many collages as possible. However, I don't believe that. I think 2-3 reachs, 3-4 matches. and 1-2 safty is good.</p>
<p>It's a waste of money and time if you ask me. I would rather use that time to study for the SAT or do something to increase my chances of getting accepted.</p>
<p>Admissions is getting more and more competitive, so students are applying to more schools to increase their chances of getting accepting to at least one of their top choices.</p>
<p>To jamesford:</p>
<p>But overall, doesn't it decrease everyone's chances?</p>
<p>Just think about it.</p>
<p>Some people just don't have a clue where they're going to go. My friend applied to 6 colleges, and one week before she had to send in her final decision she still had no clue which one to pick. She ended up randomly picking one of the acceptance letters from a pile and went to that school.</p>
<p>And then there's the fact that her family is very wealthy.</p>
<p>I know I'm applying to 11 because of the scholarships. I need a full-ride and I don't to apply to 3 or 4 and then not get it. My 11 has 2 full-ride safety, 3 full-ride matches, and 3 full-ride reaches. Oh and I couldn't resist throwing away all my hard work in school without applying to 3 Ivies too.</p>
<p>I'm pretty much going to apply to 2~3, but we'll see since I won't be applying for a longg time.</p>
<p>It costs too much to apply to that many.</p>
<p>one of my friends is applying to 18 colleges here in the US (he's, obviously, a junior going on senior)</p>
<p>and 3 in england</p>
<p>good luck to himm~!</p>
<p>Man, if you applied to over 10 schools, wouldn't your application fee surpass $1000??</p>
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<p>It does not decrease everyone's chances. Regardless of the number of people that apply, there will still be the same number of people attending in the fall. It's why they accept more people than they have room for- colleges typically know what their yield % is.</p>
<p>powerbomb- no. I applied to 10 (and I probably shouldn't have applied to that many, I could have cut 4; hindsight is 20/20...). I probably spent $500, including app fees and sending SAT/ACT scores.
My most expensive app was $70, one was free.</p>
<p>I think it COULD increase ones chances, but it would make the applicant spend less time on each essay/application... sooo, the quality of applications might be worse...?</p>
<p>^My 'quality of applications' did not suffer. The commonapp really helps with that, as well as a simple life skill- knowing how to budget your time.</p>
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<p>Well it's not fair to the people applying to less than five schools. I hate the common application. Students shouldn't be able to apply to so many schools so easily. lol</p>
<p>sugar_sweet111 - could you post more about those full ride colleges?</p>
<p>Rollins just gave me a letter and asked me to pre-apply, and they would waive the application fee if I applied. So I might as well apply there anyway, since 10 people a year get a full ride scholarship.</p>
<p>Because they have the money to pay for all those overpriced applications, or don't mind spending their parents'.</p>
<p>I only applied to four and I already felt extremely guilty for wasting money.</p>