Please explain why anyone would need to send out 10+ applications

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Anonymous wrote:Are these students looking for a best fit or trying to win a popularity contest? Seems like a tremendous waste of resources? Can colleges see that a student has applied to an exorbitant amount of schools or Is it a money grab?

Can you explain why you care what other people do? Let me guess, you are "just wondering." MYOB, Gladys.

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Anonymous wrote:3 safeties
3 on target
3 reach
1 Hail Mary

Yup. DC did 2 Hail Mary's (2 Ivies) so a total of 11. Could have applied to fewer but for the very low admission ones you never know so he rolled the dice.

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Anonymous wrote:3 safeties
3 on target
3 reach
1 Hail Mary

This was me 30 years ago too. All handwritten or typed up myself.

Not a new concept.

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being asian.

there was some kid on youtube (it's a trend now, doing reaction vids to acceptance/rejection emails) that got dinged by yale and cal but gets into caltech and ucla and penn.

another one where some kid gets dinged by cornell and jhu and northwestern but gets into brown.

It's way too random now a days. My asian cousins put in 20-25 apps.

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Anonymous wrote:being asian.

there was some kid on youtube (it's a trend now, doing reaction vids to acceptance/rejection emails) that got dinged by yale and cal but gets into caltech and ucla and penn.

another one where some kid gets dinged by cornell and jhu and northwestern but gets into brown.

It's way too random now a days. My asian cousins put in 20-25 apps.

Duuude!!!

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DS applied to 6 schools and got into all of them. 2 reaches, 2 safeties, 2 targets.

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Anonymous wrote:What is pissing me off in all of this is once again the middle class gets screwed. Lower income get waivers and the rich can afford it.

Applications, sending in test scores, and ironically having to pay for FAFSA and CSS submissions puts each college at about $100 each to apply to.

The irony of trying to save for college and spending $1000 to submit 10 applications. Sick of this bullshit.

I can understand paying for the app when you mailed it. You were paying someone to retrieve, place it, put it in the computer, and also read over it and send it to the right college. Common App should cost $30 max. Sending test scores should be a one time cost. Just money grabbing.

There are plenty of colleges that offer free applications, and most are between 50-75 so it's not as bad as you think. Colleges have multiple readers of each application and discussions about candidates. That's much more expensive then paying someone to deliver it to the right college. I would say students who are trying to go to highly selective schools are the ones that do a lot of admissions--others can get by with less. Also if you apply early action to a top choice, you can only do one if you're lucky.

Little rinky liberal arts schools wanting more apps to fudge their acceptance rates maybe. I don’t know if any ivy or large public university that offers free applications.

Free apps - Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Colby, Wellesley, Kenyon, Grinnell, Smith ...

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Anonymous wrote:What is pissing me off in all of this is once again the middle class gets screwed. Lower income get waivers and the rich can afford it.

Applications, sending in test scores, and ironically having to pay for FAFSA and CSS submissions puts each college at about $100 each to apply to.

The irony of trying to save for college and spending $1000 to submit 10 applications. Sick of this bullshit.

I can understand paying for the app when you mailed it. You were paying someone to retrieve, place it, put it in the computer, and also read over it and send it to the right college. Common App should cost $30 max. Sending test scores should be a one time cost. Just money grabbing.

You don't have to play the game. Have your child apply to 1 or 2 schools where everyone gets accepted...

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Anonymous wrote:being asian.

there was some kid on youtube (it's a trend now, doing reaction vids to acceptance/rejection emails) that got dinged by yale and cal but gets into caltech and ucla and penn.

another one where some kid gets dinged by cornell and jhu and northwestern but gets into brown.

It's way too random now a days. My asian cousins put in 20-25 apps.

Lame!

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But, my dear Asian child got into 8 of th 10 she applied to.

I think the key is avoiding elite/ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:DS applied to 6 schools and got into all of them. 2 reaches, 2 safeties, 2 targets.

....pretends this is relevant....

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- application fees are a drop in the bucket compared to cost of tuition
- NEED Merit Aid. Can not anticipate, not reliably until admit decisions are in

Op, you're kinda clueless

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Anonymous wrote:DS applied to 6 schools and got into all of them. 2 reaches, 2 safeties, 2 targets.

DC applied to 7 and is in at 5 so far - but not with enough merit aid at the ones she wanted the most. Crossing our fingers for the last two and I'm wondering if she should have applied more broadly. (OTOH, there were no other schools that interested her.)

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Same people who applied to 10 pre schools, 10 privates

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Anonymous wrote:Those of us in DC don't have an instate option where we get preference. We also are looking hard for good deals on tuition for the same reason.

Dude, you get instate at all 50 states.

Nope. You can get 10K knocked off at public schools with the DCTAG.

Exactly. We dont get instate tuition. We get 10 k toward out of state tuition. 15 years ago, that covered the out of state premium. Now, additional out of state tuition is 11000 - 28000 in many places.