<p>Just curious here. What's the highest number of applications you've ever heard of anyone undertaking? Also, how did the applicant's counselor and teachers react to that high number? Does your high school (public or private) limit the number of apps they'll process?</p>
<p>A CCer from the last admissions cycle applied to Stanford, Duke, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, Williams, Amherst, Oxford, Emory, Vanderbilt, UChicago, WashU, Northwestern, Georgetown, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Caltech, MIT, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Tufts, and Boston University. I believe thatās 29 schools.</p>
<p>She was accepted everywhere but Stanford.</p>
<p>29? Sorry, thatās just crazy. Whatās the point? Ego? Bragging rights? What a waste of time.</p>
<p>The top number Iāve heard about personally is 18. The top number recited on CC is 29 (see post #2).</p>
<p>Why?
If I had 2-3 thousand dollars at my disposal Iād also apply to all of them (except for Oxford, i like Cambridge best).
I am just curious to know which one did she choose in the end. That must have been a tough decision to take xD</p>
<p>I applied to 14 schools and I thought that was a lot. 29 is ridiculous</p>
<p>Back in the early days of this forum, there was a student who thought that his list of 35 schools was ā¦ too light and wanted to add a few schools. He was also applying to BA/MD programs.</p>
<p>Iām going to be applying to close to 20 schools. Thereās too many good ones to choose from, and since the schools at the level I want to study are reaches for everyone I want to apply to enough of the schools I love to ensure that I get accepted somewhere.</p>
<p>I donāt know if Iām explaining it right but essentially I like so many schools that are all so competitive that I want to apply to enough that I am (practically) guaranteed to get into one of the ones I want.</p>
<p>The rise in college applications to schools is not due to more people graduating but rather people are applying to so many schools nowadays. </p>
<p>Iām applying to 4.</p>
<p>Our school does not place a limit but suggests no more than eight and really strongly suggests no more than ten.</p>
<p>At our school they strongly suggest no more then 5 or 6ā¦ even so much as to put significant hurdles in front of students to apply to more schools.</p>
<p>i think you guys are referring to Anonymous93, who applied to 29 schools. she was rejected SCEA by stanford, and then accepted by all other 27 schools, while getting deferred by duke. She was going to matriculate to Princeton, when she was then accepted off the waitlist by duke, and if i recall correctly, she has chosen to be a duke '14.</p>
<p>Hopefully my S will get into his first choice ED. If not, then he has 9 others to choose from. I still think 10 altogether is too many, but he doesnāt want to take any off the list. He wants to have āchoicesā. His ED choice is the best āfitā for him although some of the other ones are higher ranked. He doesnāt care about rankings as much as fit. Smart kidā¦hope he gets into his first choice!</p>
<p>Thanks to the CommonApp, applying to 29 schools is certainly not impossible. That being said, it would be incredibly time-consuming to complete 29 supplementsā¦ not to mention paying over $1500 in application fees, which is just ridiculous unless you can get a fee waiver.</p>
<p>Iām just a junior, but I know Iāll be applying to 10 schools at the most. Anything more than that is really just a waste of timeā¦ I mean, 29 schools when you can only attend 1? Cāmon, people.</p>
<p>Iām applying to 5 or 6 at least, and possibly 9 or 10 at most. Depends if I get accepted early and so can only apply to reach schools during regular admissions. </p>
<p>One guy at my school applied to 15 last year. I donāt know how many he was accepted to. Another guy applied to Washington University in St. Louis, UChicago, and Harvard. He got accepted to the first two. Incidentally, UChicago was by far the best school anyone got into of last yearās class.</p>
<p>I āmetā a girl who applied to 31ā¦ I was at an admitted students event and we were all there and the dean was like āokay, so who thinks they applied to the most schoolsā¦ā needless to say the girl with 31 won the free teeshirt.</p>
<p>Of the kids I know in real life and not just from CC, the most I have seen was one kid who applied to 19. He got into all 19 of them including HYPS. He chose Yale where he was legacy. Seemed to me that a kid with qualifications strong enough to sweep HYPS, and a Yale legacy to boot, went to waay too much trouble and effort in filling out that many apps. (This was about seven or eight years ago - before very many schools started accepting the common app).</p>
<p>Iām applying to ~15 schools. Most of them use the Common App, which doesnāt take more than an hour to fill out (minus the essays). Even if every single college I am applying to had separate apps, it honestly would not take a significant amount of time to fill out everything other than the essays. </p>
<p>And the supplement essays for various colleges can easily be recycled for other colleges. </p>
<p>That said, I donāt think it would be /that/ time-consuming to fill out 30 applicationsā¦ but somehow I do think that a little bit of research could be done on the applicantās part to get the general gist of where he/she might would want to goā¦ and narrow that down to, say, 20ā¦</p>
<p>Well I mean sometimes it might be the kid freaking out; other times a person just HAS to get into a top school so they figure theyāll apply to all of them; and then other times it could be a financial issue. The only time I could see someone justifying applying to a LOT of schools (i.e. more than 15) would be for true financial security (like, 100% guaranteed) but even then one might be playing it a little ātooā safe. But if the app is free and easy and you need a lot of viable options then go for itā¦</p>
<p>Wasnāt there a fellow from Alabama or Mississippi or somewhere (no xig, not GA) a few years back who applied to well over 30, with one of his top choices being Brandeis?</p>