@speechless17 :
Can you find out whether common app counts as one transcript?
Because one transcript is uploaded, once, and is sent to all colleges the student applies to.
There’s a difference between counting common app as one (1 upload of transcript counts as one) or as ten (if applying to ten colleges).
If the total number is 8 and Common app=1, CSU/UC/state Universities use Self Reported (no transcript sent till after may first) = 0, then you add 7 non common app, non SRAR colleges, it seems reasonable.
If common app is individually counted then it doesn’t seem reasonable because it doesn’t matter whether the student applies to one or ten colleges on Common app, you upload only once.