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[quote=Anonymous]"Increase to 12 is reasonable. You are advocating it seems for virtually unlimited applications. And the rare exception for the arts - or flight school- is not a good reason to lift the cap for everyone. Hard cases make for bad law."

Common App already limits you to 20. Nobody is arguing for unlimited applications.

Why apply a rule that should only pertain to a tiny share of students in each senior class (because these are the only people competing for coveted acceptances from the most elite schools) to the entire class?  In a class with 500 students, only the top 50 (10%) are going to bother applying to the schools that you're worried will get oversubscribed by a few hoarders with high stats. You're making the other 450 live with the negative consequences of how the 10 application limit might impact on them even though nobody, including the valedictorian with the best shot at Harvard, cares where they apply.

An alternative would be to limit seniors to only 10 applications to the top 25 ranked colleges. You could apply to as many schools that aren't HSYP, Duke, Cal, etc... as you like since nobody is worried about being squeezed out by your classmate at the other 250 most popular/sought after schools. [/quote]

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