She is not sending that many to any of those schools. She is sending two to the one that said 3 max if it is exceptional.
One said she wanted 5-6 if she had them. Literally. I would not lie.
She is deciding how many to send to the others. One? Two? She is not sending 5 to any of them I listed above. She went and asked the couple at the college fair because I told her I didn’t believe they wanted as many as it had room for on the college app. So I am not arguing with you.
I have said many times I agree it is overkill. When the common app has 0 or 1 required but space for 10 I think it is reasonable to ponder whether we send 1 or 3? And when two such schools directly gave her very different answers it seemed a reasonable question.
She needed some specific letters for specific scholarships she is applying to so she needed the core teacher but she also need an outside recommender and a leadership specific so she needed 3 unique ones anyway and one honors program that wanted 2 unique academic recommenders. So she did end up with a number of letters and not just because she is extra.