This is extremely helpful! Thank you so much for your insight! My D19 applied to 9 colleges for music so that was a whole different animal with extra travel for auditions and different steps. We were chasing merit then too, but only a small number of schools offered the major she wanted (popular/commercial/contemporary music)so we were a bit limited, but it worked out well, thanks to some extra research and help from experienced parents on CC. My son will be studying psychology which pretty much all colleges offer (although some only offer the BA option which he is not interested in) so we had a more wide open net and he applied to 16 schools, including the last minute addition of DePaul. In retrospect, it’s probably too much, especially with the honors applications, but he is somehow managing to balance everything and hoping all the work and time will pay off. He has 13 acceptances, including Fordham & Case Western, and he is waiting on Northeastern, Pitt and DePaul. We only have 2 kids, so the end is near on this crazy process. Thanks again!
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