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

[Anonymous]

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

Then he undersold himself. They weren't really reaches. You should have raised him to have more self esteem.

[Anonymous]

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.

I am going to be on a PBJ diet for next year to collect the money needed for 25 applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Then he undersold himself. They weren't really reaches. You should have raised him to have more self esteem.

Actually he got into his first choice which is a top 20 plus another top 20 which was second choice. He did not want any ivies even though he had a shot. We weren't going to make him apply and get in just for bragging rights...which is probably the main reason people apply to 10+ schools.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Also no in-state admissions preference (and often a preference for full pay OOS).

[Anonymous]

I think people apply for 10+ schools out of fear and anxiety. They are terrified that if they apply to 2 reaches, 2 matches and 2 safeties (or 1 of each like in my day) they will end up with nothing to choose from.

And that anxiety is bred in places like DCUM by stupid narrow minded Marylanders.

[Anonymous]

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.

I wish was only $1000
We spend to apply for 11 colleges:
SAT/ACT/APs/PREP courses and fees $7343
Trips to visit colleges $5487
Applications fees $922
Misc $230
Pretty sure I am forgetting something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Then he undersold himself. They weren't really reaches. You should have raised him to have more self esteem.

Not the person you responded to:

And your mom should have raised you not to be so obnoxious.

Congratulations to your son, PP.

[Anonymous]

For people dead set on an elite private who don't get in ED, they are faced with a large random element to who gets in among the highly qualified.

I can easily see how ten happens, even if my kid only applied to seven. (And even the seven... he applied to one school half way between a target and a safety rolling and early. He got in. That eliminated any further discussion of safeties and some of the targets. So with one minor difference, we'd have been at ten, too.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Then he undersold himself. They weren't really reaches. You should have raised him to have more self esteem.

Not the person you responded to:

And your mom should have raised you not to be so obnoxious.

Congratulations to your son, PP.

Agreed. That poster is RUDE but then she knows that, doesn't she?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Then he undersold himself. They weren't really reaches. You should have raised him to have more self esteem.

Actually he got into his first choice which is a top 20 plus another top 20 which was second choice. He did not want any ivies even though he had a shot. We weren't going to make him apply and get in just for bragging rights...which is probably the main reason people apply to 10+ schools.

PP, I was sympathetic to your position (especially since you were answered in such an obnoxious way.... but then you passed judgment on the other people. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I wish was only $1000
We spend to apply for 11 colleges:
SAT/ACT/APs/PREP courses and fees $7343
Trips to visit colleges $5487
Applications fees $922
Misc $230
Pretty sure I am forgetting something.

My DS applied to TA&M,UMDCP, Duke,ND,Vandi, Harvard,Prince,Yale,Brown,MIT,CM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I wish was only $1000
We spend to apply for 11 colleges:
SAT/ACT/APs/PREP courses and fees $7343
Trips to visit colleges $5487
Applications fees $922
Misc $230
Pretty sure I am forgetting something.

I kinda doubt you are missing something given your highly anal accounting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people apply for 10+ schools out of fear and anxiety. They are terrified that if they apply to 2 reaches, 2 matches and 2 safeties (or 1 of each like in my day) they will end up with nothing to choose from.

And that anxiety is bred in places like DCUM by stupid narrow minded Marylanders.

What does it have to do with Maryland?

[Anonymous]

Do not worry is a F*cking yahoo from VA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I wish was only $1000
We spend to apply for 11 colleges:
SAT/ACT/APs/PREP courses and fees $7343
Trips to visit colleges $5487
Applications fees $922
Misc $230
Pretty sure I am forgetting something.

My DS applied to TA&M,UMDCP, Duke,ND,Vandi, Harvard,Prince,Yale,Brown,MIT,CM.

That’s an ambitious list. Good luck to your kid. He can’t go wrong with any of these institutions