Number of applications

Northstarmom
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:20:01 +0000

Older S applied to 5 colleges – 2 tier 2 colleges (one public, one private) , 3 top 5 (2 private, one public) ones including one Ivy. He got one rejection: the Ivy. He chose his safety, a 2nd tier public, which had given him virtually a full ride. He had gotten some merit aid from 2 other colleges including a tier one.

Younger S applied to one in-state public (safety), and one private LAC (match, but he knew he’d need merit aid to attend), and was accepted to both, getting merit aid from the LAC.

I do think that with careful research, there’s no need for students to apply to 10 and more schools. I think so many people on CC apply to many schools because they trophy hunt and erroneously think that if they apply to lots of reach schools, they’re bound to get in to one.