Chance Me: Caltech, MIT, Northwestern, Duke, Tufts, etc.

Good to hear from you again, @engineergirl46 .

My first reaction is that this is a lot of schools, and it is hard to do that many applications well, but if the EA applications are all submitted this is a moot point.

For the RD applications, I would recommend spending more time on each one and completing them (but not submitting them) before you hear back from your EA schools. If you get into your dream school EA, you won’t care that the time was “wasted”, and if you don’t, you will be glad you got a jump on them.