Last year it was normal to apply to more than 20-25colleges, my son only applied to 12 schools with so many rejections. This year my second son applied to four colleges. He applied ED and was accepted. I heard that the trend is to apply EDs. There are so many ED applicants and colleges defer a lot of students. It must be true that colleges waitlist so many students as well. I only applied to three schools 35years ago.