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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid applied to 20, her choice, more than half of them were LACs or state schools with waived or no application fee (think Reed, Carleton, Oberlin, Pitt). The rest came under $500, which she offered to pay from her summer earnings. It helped that we were also trying to find schools like Grinnell, Macalester, Wooster, etc that award merit aid. Additionally, most of the midwestern LACs or OOS schools had few essays, if any. She wrote the most for Pitt, ironically. It wasn't too bad for her, even though she got a late start and only finished her common app essay at the end of October. She already knew she was going to college, having heard back from Pitt in mid-September. The rest of the applications she cranked out herself. I don't think it's that big of a deal, as long as they truly apply to schools they are interested in. I do think it's more of a crapshoot now than it was even a few years ago, but you only apply to college (undergrad) once and if you truly want to do extra work to shoot your shot, then go for it. What I don't think is necessarily worthwhile is applying to elite or brand-name schools only for the prestige, especially if you don't really have the profile to be considered or accepted. It helps for kids to want to attend the schools that would want them.[/quote]

If your 20 included the 8 Ivies your kid would have been writing tons of supplemental essays.   The 3 my kid applied to each had 4 extra essays---not something a senior really wants to do unless they truly want to attend that school, as it's time consuming and they do get burnt out with the process.[/quote]

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