How many applications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are parents paying app fees to 20+ schools? That is insane

I don’t know. Travel sports are around $6k per year ..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are parents paying app fees to 20+ schools? That is insane

If you think application fees are a consideration, how on earth do you plan to pay for actual tuition, room and board?

For my first kid, each AP exam fee was $100. Tutoring ran up to $250/hr (fancy prep center). University sticker price is 85K a year (he gets merit aid).
I would be worried about the WORK involved in writing personalized applications for 20 schools. Not the fee.

You're right. We don't have to worry about the fee. After all is said and done I will tally the tutoring. The fees haven't been exorbitant, more like $110/hr. Our college counselor was $6k for 4 years. I won't know the results until March/April.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are parents paying app fees to 20+ schools? That is insane

I don’t know. Travel sports are around $6k per year ..

And some of us don’t take part in such expensive extracurriculars

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:20.

Thinking to add 5 more (LACs)

But WHY?

If you can't brag about the quality of the schools that accept you might as well do quantity.

[Anonymous]

My DC sent transcripts to about 20. Our school requires the transcript requests a month in advance so that didn’t allow for adjustment after receiving ED and EA results. Kid got in ED but was definitely on a path to applying to too many. Would have dropped a few depending on EA outcomes but had already applied to too many oos safeties. Do all high schools require the 30 days in advance transcript requests?

[Anonymous]

Child #1: 10 aps, 2 instate (in at one, waitlisted at reach), 1 private (ranked higher than the instate reach, got in, didn't prefer luckily. Would have been hard to afford), 8 OOS publics (got into 5). Happy with results.

Child #2: 5 aps, all OOS publics, Got into 2 EA (two favorites so thrilled), Did not get into 3 RD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC sent transcripts to about 20. Our school requires the transcript requests a month in advance so that didn’t allow for adjustment after receiving ED and EA results. Kid got in ED but was definitely on a path to applying to too many. Would have dropped a few depending on EA outcomes but had already applied to too many oos safeties. Do all high schools require the 30 days in advance transcript requests?

Our school does. My dd, based on an EA result, already dropped 1 school from her list. I feel like she'll drop another one in the coming days.

As for paying for 20 applications - not all schools have an application fee. Some are just free, some have a code for a free application since we did a tour of the school. My dd applied to a lot of schools but we did fees for maybe half of them.

[Anonymous]

Application fees are a drop in the bucket compared to what you will be paying. "You", not meaning any particular poster but I'm always shocked when parent who have money complain.

pp, 20 is a lot of schools to keep track of but there's no right or wrong. We considered The Application Process to be a fluid process. As a family, we approached it that way from the beginning. As admission notifications were received, aps were adjusted. Final COA known, some acceptances dropped. We visited throughout the process, some schools only once IN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are parents paying app fees to 20+ schools? That is insane

We held off on RD apps until we heard from ED schools, so that saved some fees for us. But, DD also did a great job of getting fee waivers. It's worth an email (probably not to reaches or high targets) to an AO to reference a visit or interview and ask about a fee waiver. Worked for Pitt and Manhattan College. Some have no fee. UMD gives waivers to NMSF. Lafayette reached out to offer a waiver (DD did interview early). Even if she had done her RD apps, we would have had more like 8 app fees than 15. As it was, she applied to 8 early but had 5 fees.

Have a friend whose kid is applying to 20. They are in the 200k-300k range but have significant healthcare expenses, so they will need to see a range of FA options.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DC sent transcripts to about 20. Our school requires the transcript requests a month in advance so that didn’t allow for adjustment after receiving ED and EA results. Kid got in ED but was definitely on a path to applying to too many. Would have dropped a few depending on EA outcomes but had already applied to too many oos safeties. Do all high schools require the 30 days in advance transcript requests?

Our school does. My dd, based on an EA result, already dropped 1 school from her list. I feel like she'll drop another one in the coming days.

As for paying for 20 applications - not all schools have an application fee. Some are just free, some have a code for a free application since we did a tour of the school. My dd applied to a lot of schools but we did fees for maybe half of them.

Our school does too, but transcript fee is only $3, and mine just did requests for schools with deadlines before 1/15, since she would find out about ED on 12/15. Also posted about fee waivers as well.

[Anonymous]

My child isn’t applying anywhere near the top schools, and we haven’t paid one app fee. Half her list didn’t have one, a couple gave us waivers and she also got a waiver for participating in a program at school to knock out the rest.

Didn’t mean to sidetrack, I just think all those apps are nutty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are parents paying app fees to 20+ schools? That is insane

If you think application fees are a consideration, how on earth do you plan to pay for actual tuition, room and board?

For my first kid, each AP exam fee was $100. Tutoring ran up to $250/hr (fancy prep center). University sticker price is 85K a year (he gets merit aid).
I would be worried about the WORK involved in writing personalized applications for 20 schools. Not the fee.

You're right. We don't have to worry about the fee. After all is said and done I will tally the tutoring. The fees haven't been exorbitant, more like $110/hr. Our college counselor was $6k for 4 years. I won't know the results until March/April.

Y'all are in a different pay bracket than the rest of us. Wow. I became our college counselor (and tutor along with Princeton Review books). Kids at public school. And we do sweat the app fees (along with the time/energy investment with extra apps). Eldest accepted to several T15, youngest in early to T10. I need to go into business.

[Anonymous]

Put in 5, one ED and 4 EA. Got accepted to ED and one EA, and pulled the rest.

Would have put in another 10 RD applications if he didn't get into the ED school.

All private LACs.

[Anonymous]

“WHY.”

Because upper middle class straight white boys who are not athletic recruits are not wanted at most top schools these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“WHY.”

Because upper middle class straight white boys who are not athletic recruits are not wanted at most top schools these days.

Exactly this.