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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, 15 is normal if you are an ambitious kid who wants to go to a brand name school. I applied to 12 schools about 8 years ago, now it’s harder to get into a ‘good’ college - ergo, 15 feels right. Since getting into a brand name college is a lottery, it’s good to ‘buy’ as many tickets as possible if you can afford it.

OP you can sometimes petition to reduce or waive the application fees. [/quote]

My kids were both ambitious and wanted to attend "brand name schools" - they both applied to 6-7. More than enough if you actually take the time to look into programs and narrow down geography, size etc.[/quote]

Not more than enough if those 6-7 all have acceptance rates lower than 15-20%.  Do that and there is a very high chance your kid will have no acceptances.  My high stats kid had 5 reaches (all with less than 10% acceptances this year), 3 targets and 3 safeties.  Kid got into the 3 targets and 3 safeties, with significant merit at all but 1 (and is attending that one ironically) and was WL at one reach and fall start soph year (while attending a required freshman year overseas) at another reach.  I for one am extremely happy that we had good targets and safeties, because if you do, you will have several excellent choices. Also happy we set expectations that the reaches are just that---don't fall in love so much that you can't get excited about targets and safeties.  My kid got over their rejections each time within a day.  Oh and also glad we did EA everywhere it was available, so that by xmas we had one target and the favorite safety acceptances already in place with significant merit.  That reduces stress and makes the reach rejections much easier to handle---as our counselor says "congratulation!  You are going to college next fall!"  For 2 months, my kid even placed the favorite safety above the one target school--which is a good thing, means they really liked their safety school. [/quote]

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