<p>Enough:</p>
<p>Neither student to whom I am referring had any interest in going anywhere other than Harvard. Neither applied to any school that represented a different sort of educational choice compared to Harvard. (Maybe MIT counts, but neither even looked at Dartmouth or Williams, or anywhere like them.) Ostensibly, they were trying to get the best financial deal they could, but each was offered significantly more money at another Ivy, Harvard declined to match it in both cases, and both still chose Harvard without hesitation. One of them was counting coup – that was the kind of person he was. The other was competitive with the first and basically did whatever he did.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone would have minded if they had applied to 3-4 other colleges that might have represented a different reasonable choice, or likely to offer them more money. When you get up to 7-8, without ever expressing interest in attending any of them, that looked excessive.</p>