<p>If I remember correctly, it was last year in Birmingham, AL. Two African American twin boys applied almost 50 each. I believe one allpied 50 plus and the other 40 plus schools. It was published in Birmingham News but I couldn’t find the article. Crazy!</p>
<p>hahah @nujabes29 </p>
<p>if i don’t get in where i’m applying ED, i guess my list will be about 8 to 10 deep</p>
<p>Bamalax-
Is this them?
[Super-student</a> twins offered $3.58 million in scholarships | Moms | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle](<a href=“http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/moms/5799414.html]Super-student”>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/moms/5799414.html)</p>
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I think one of them might have used cc. This sounds very familiar.</p>
<p>I applied to 14: 9 in the US, 4 in Canada and 1 at home. I took a gap year and used some of the money that I earned from my job to pay the application fees. I only applied to so many because I wasn’t sure I would get the financial aid/scholarships that I would need. And it was a good thing too because of the 11 schools that I was accepted to, only 3 offered me the aid that I needed. Some of the others gave me limited amounts of aid but my family would probably go broke trying to make up the rest and the rest gave me nothing.</p>
<p>To answer the question though, I remember reading an article in a USNews magazine that had a special college edition where a girl applied to 34 schools. This was back in 2008 or so.</p>
<p>Just saw this article about what’s wrong with college admissions from the college perspective and they mentioned this issue of applying to too many colleges. Might find it interesting: [From</a> the College Perspective: A Brutally Honest View of What?s Wrong With College Admissions | myUsearch blog](<a href=“http://myusearchblog.com/from-the-college-perspective-a-brutally-honest-view-of-what’s-wrong-with-college-admissions]From”>http://myusearchblog.com/from-the-college-perspective-a-brutally-honest-view-of-what’s-wrong-with-college-admissions)</p>
<p>I’m applying to at least 5, but probably will end up closer to 10-12.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 18.
A few reasons…
- My widowed mother has been unemployed for over a year so this means I’m waiving application fees AND
- I NEED LOTS OF FIN. AID. It is not an option for me to apply to fewer than 10 schools due to the amount of cash I need.
- I’m not picky. lol refer back to reason 2. I would truly be happy attending any of my schools if the money is there.
- Due to free apps, automatic fee waivers, and other scenarios, I actually don’t have that much to do. </p>
<p>I feel great about my list :)</p>
<p>Wow, 29? That’s crazy. I applied to about 10-11 schools and that was all.</p>
<p>29!? I’m applying to three in the early rounds, and probably 15-ish in the regular decision. I thought I going extreme, but I see some people went further…</p>
<p>I was told by a very powerful Catholic nun that I’d be wasting my life if I applied to more than 3 colleges.</p>
<p>^ … hmm … Notre Dame, Boston College, and Holy Cross and to apply anywhere else would be a sin?</p>
<p>Heck no! She’s nuts about math & science. She wants Carnegie-Mellons and Penn States and Stanfords and Cornells and Illinoises and locally, Drexels (which i guess is at least a bit related to St. Katherine Drexel, named after her uncle)… engineering, for Jesus.</p>
<p>I think my list would be 14ish. I thought this was a lot. 0.0</p>
<p>I guess some people just have more time.</p>
<p>Wow. So many colleges.
Perhaps it’s easier for people who just know what they want. I’m applying to a single safety, two schools I really like with great science programs, and a single other that’s just simple because it doesn’t have a supplement.
For the record, that’s Northwestern, U of C, UIC, and WashU. Though not in that order.</p>
<p>I’m a junior this year, and I’m applying to 8:
Cal, MIT, Stanford, HYP, Georgia Tech, and Caltech;
If I don’t get any of these schools, next year I will apply to all of them again, +Duke, Rice, UT (auto admission, free freshman year and graduate in 2.5 years or less, say whatttt), Cornell and Oxford which brings my potential to 13 next year, if I do not get into any schools this year, of course.</p>
<p>Someone in last year’s graduating class applied to 31, but he didn’t get accepted to any. He had to appeal to get into a college he wanted to go. I felt bad because his stats weren’t that bad, but he applied to basically all “reach schools.”</p>
<p>ah, this thread brings back memories. I always knew I applied to a lot of colleges, but I always thought people here on CC applied to much more… perhaps they didn’t apply to so many after all. Anyways, I applied to 29 universities, in three countries (US, UK, Canada) and two continents. Looks like I tied with Anonymous93 for the record. sweet times…</p>
<p>How many did you get into? Which ones?What year was that? Where did you matriculate, john?</p>
<p>Our school GCs would strongly recommend that the list be well researched–and well matched</p>
<p>They would expect a student to be able to defend every college on the list…</p>
<p>and–they have a “no scalps” policy that once your top choices accept you–its time to pull your apps elsewhere so other kids can get into their top choices…</p>
<p>So many of these schools are REALLY very different–it is hard to believe a student LOVES them all…</p>
<p>I love the phrase " no scalps", fogfog. I’ll be using it in the coming weeks/months. My child’s list started at somewhere over twenty, but is now down to a reasonable eight to ten. By application time, I think it will be down to eight, perhaps seven. Most of his peers are at a similar level. I also know a number of kids who have lists of two to five schools and who will be fine - they have a school that is a safety both economically and in terms of admissions.</p>