I’m with @417WHB , re the amount of work and effort that goes into applications. It’s a full time job!! And it’s not cheap those application fees add up.
I also think it depends greatly on if you have a good alternative. I can not see myself or DD mustering up enough enthusiasm to apply to more schools just to make up a number. And we carefully researched about 40 before narrowing down to 7.
When I found CC I was truly amazed at the number of schools people applied to. I mean 16 schools?? Most of my non CC friends apply to 3 or less in fact we are constantly being asked why we are applying to so many.
@CateCAParent yes those chance me/freak out threads are heartbreaking. But I feel the difference is that several of these kids (parents?) are choosing the schools for the wrong reasons. In fact I know a family whose DD scored 99 on the SSAT and decide I’m going to apply to Andover and Exeter…no research or anything.
If one is choosing a school for its perceived name and ranking then there might be a rude awakening.
And also those Decision day threads have a lot of “xxxx didn’t accept me but I didn’t want to go there anyway” comments or you see acceptances and people don’t commit and instead stay on the waitlist for their ‘dream acronym’ school.
Maybe the words should be cast a VARIED net as opposed to a wide net i.e applying to 10 Acronym schools as opposed to a mix might also result in disappointment especially when ’wide’ is misconstrued as ‘many’.
Applications haven’t even even been submitted and I’ve already marked M10 on all my 2020 calendars ?