How many should I apply to?

TiggerDad
Wed, 17 May 2017 20:12:03 +0000

The greatest challenge with the question of “how many colleges” is simply TIME. Because you’d need to tailor each supplementary essay to each college’s prompts, it’d be very wise for you to select the right colleges to apply to as opposed to how many. My son chose his colleges based on the right fit, particularly in terms of his major, and then grouped them by reach, match and safeties. Although he applied to 16 colleges and universities, after he was done writing essays from his top choice colleges, which were about half on the list, he ran out of gas and motivation given all the rest of brutal schedule he was on. As I’ve stated elsewhere, it was interesting to note that he got admitted to most of his top choices for which he had given his full attention in writing essays while he was either waitlisted or rejected by most of the back up schools for which he had spent much less attention to their essays. Choose your colleges wisely and as many colleges as you can pay fullest attention to.