<p>I applied to 9 schools in in 6 countries outside the US and 10 American through CommonApp.</p>
<p>Added up, the first took me about 2 days, the latter took me weeks (testing, ECs, interviews, freaking essays, supplements, evaluations… hell).
For example applying to colleges in Germany takes about 30minutes each, filling out UCAS (for five UK colleges) is 3 hours including the statement. Application to Ireland just took me 20 minutes and so on…</p>
<p>And of course we’re speaking about the upper two tiers of US-colleges. The lower one’s aren’t really regarded as worth anything over here (as their education mostly covers stuff we do in hs).</p>