Can I apply to this many schools

[Anonymous]

My daughter is planning on applying to 33 different schools. Many of these require transcripts. Do the counselors have a hard limit of schools they will send transcripts for?

[Anonymous]

Our public charges $5/transcript after the first five. I've never heard of a hard limit, but then I've never heard of a kid from our school applying to 33 schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is planning on applying to 33 different schools. Many of these require transcripts. Do the counselors have a hard limit of schools they will send transcripts for?

Are you really planning to pay for 33 applications? I'd suggest you help her narrow her list down - it would be a good exercise for future life decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public charges $5/transcript after the first five. I've never heard of a hard limit, but then I've never heard of a kid from our school applying to 33 schools!

what district is this?

[Anonymous]

Why? Ask her to sit and tell you why each one important to keep on the list? Help her eliminate some. Yes this a great school but it is smaller than your HS. Yes also great but CA is very far away from VA. This east coast school is similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our public charges $5/transcript after the first five. I've never heard of a hard limit, but then I've never heard of a kid from our school applying to 33 schools!

what district is this?

MCPS

Good point about the cost of applications! I know a student applying to 11 schools this year. Some have free applications, but the rest have $45-$70 application fees (and I know other schools are higher). She'll spend an average of $40 per application on fees, plus $30 for additional transcripts. Not to mention the extra charge for sending official test results to a few schools.

[Anonymous]

OP: List the 33 schools here with your daughters intended area of study & other interests. We will point out any inconsistencies that may help her to refine her list.

[Anonymous]

33 applications = parenting fail

[Anonymous]

I have heard of some kids in performing arts applying to a lot (some dance, some musical theater, etc)

But yes, with the costs involved, I would narrow that down to 10 or so

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our public charges $5/transcript after the first five. I've never heard of a hard limit, but then I've never heard of a kid from our school applying to 33 schools!

what district is this?

MCPS

Good point about the cost of applications! I know a student applying to 11 schools this year. Some have free applications, but the rest have $45-$70 application fees (and I know other schools are higher). She'll spend an average of $40 per application on fees, plus $30 for additional transcripts. Not to mention the extra charge for sending official test results to a few schools.

DP, but our FCPS HS also charges $5 per transcript after the first 5.

We spent almost $1000 on fees (application, transcripts, test scores) and DC to joy applied to 13 schools (which was still too many IMO but there were reasons for it and DC was willing to do the work). I can’t imagine how much time and money would go into 33 applications!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:33 applications = parenting fail

+1

You need to do a much better job at narrowing your choices, OP.

[Anonymous]

This has to be a troll post. 33?!

[Anonymous]

My DD applied to 16 last year and that was super time consuming and expensive. Would definitely narrow down the 33 to about 12 to 15. If you apply to 33, it just means you haven’t researched the schools enough to know what you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:33 applications = parenting fail

Nasty unnecessary comment - personality fail.

[Anonymous]

The amount of supplemental essays must be staggering with 33 applications?