<p>Do colleges know all the colleges you applied to? Can they find out via common app? If so, will it affect my chances?</p>
<p>It will annoy your guidance counselor and make you unable to produce a few good applications.</p>
<p>Otherwise, yeah, no problems. I would definitely not suggest it, though.</p>
<p>Yeah my guidance counselor always told me if you apply to a lot of schools (12+) you can only lose, and only two situations come about:
- You get denied from like 10 schools and you have to read 10 letters of rejection which isnt all that great for your self esteem
- You get accepted to most of your schools and this makes making the decision of where to matriculate VERY hard with 10 good options.</p>
<p>Or you are accepted to 6 out of 12 schools and only a couple have good merit money offers - which you wouldn’t have received if you only applied to 4 schools.</p>
<p>Apply to as many or as few schools as make you happy. You will be able to choose when the time comes. Our D applied to 22- four of which were suggested by her GC as back ups. Who cares how many letters teachers and GCs have to write. (Ok, that was a bit insensitive but really) If you’re willing to put the time and effort into quality applications, they will be willing to do the same.</p>
<p>Unless you’re doing it to spite them, i don’t think it will affect your chances 
I have no idea if colleges you are applying to can see that. And I really don’t see why it would hurt your chances. I mean they care about the applicant most, not other colleges.</p>
<p>Here’s how it will hurt you: Producing a quality application takes time and effort. So either you produce a bunch of mediocre apps, which is a waste of time. Or you produce a bunch of great apps, and your schoolwork suffers. Why do you need to apply to that many schools? Spend some time whittling your list down a bit, and then concentrate of putting in quality apps to the remaining schools.</p>
<p>20 apps at $75 a school = $1500
Sharp Aquos 52’’ LCD HDTV = $1400</p>
<p>Opportunity cost?</p>
<p>$75 a school is a bit unrealistic, especially since many schools don’t have a fee to apply. I’m applying to something like 14 schools, and it’s cost about $500 (including fees for transcript and test score sending) because several are free to apply.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 10 because most are out-of-state and I want to see which gives me the best overall package. Also, about 4 or 5 of those, they’re waiving the application fee.</p>
<p>Apply early to the ones you’re most interested in attending and then if you decide you want to apply to the others (which probably have deadlines like jan 1st for regular decision) you can do that after you receive your admission/rejection letters from your top choices on dec 15.</p>
<p>I agree with Damon- if financial aid is an issue, apply to more places than you would otherwise. That’s the reason my list is so big. And definitely apply Early Action to places you’re genuinely interested in if they offer it- the best safety is an early acceptance, as they say.</p>
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<p>Most schools don’t have free apps though, so unless you’re seeking out the schools that do (or you qualify for fee-waivers) you’ll probably pay $60-85 for each additional school.</p>
<p>seriously. if you wanna apply to a bunch of schools, do it!! it’s your future. work those lazy counselors. geeez. i already have 13 applications done.</p>