Anonymous wrote:NP here. My DS has applied to 8 so far -- 1 ED, 6 EA, 1 RD w/an 11/15 deadline. He'll add 5 UC campuses by 11/30. Depending on the outcome of this early round, he's ready to ​max out his Common App with another 13 schools to make for a total of 26. (One of the ones already submitted had to be done via the Coalition App.) His list is entirely composed of what should be targets and safeties - no reaches.

Strange strategy if you are not making it up. If you bother to apply to 26 why not include a few reaches?

Anonymous wrote:Oh my. Parent of a junior. I'm assuming those who are applying to 15+ schools are applying to many that have a common application. Cannot imagine writing supplemental essays for 15 schools?

This was probably the biggest surprise for me -- naively, I thought Common App meant just one essay. So far, DD has applied to 6 schools, one ED, 5 EA/rolling. She has written:

1 personal statement (650 words)
1 long supplemental essay (650 words) that she adapted for another supplemental essay (500 words)
7 short supplemental essays (150-250 words)
1 honors college essay (250 words, used for 2 different schools' honors programs)

Depending on how ED goes, she has one more honors college essay (another 500 words) to write for this group of apps. And then if things don't go well with this round, she's looking at several more essays for the next round. It is a LOT. People will say that you can adapt essays for multiple schools, but she did not find that to be true for the most part, as you can see above. Some of the prompts are more general, like the Common App personal statement, but the supplemental essays tended to be pretty specific to each school.

Have your child start working on essays over the summer. DD had her personal statement and most of the long supplemental essay done by the time school started and that helped ease the stress so much.

So far 1 Rolling (admitted), 6 EA & 2 RD. There are a few more for RD she plans on as they do not have EA.

We will see if she runs out of steam, but so far her plan is around 15.

8. All EA.

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All non-binding early action or rolling admission, so he's already heard back from all, and has narrowed down his choices to the top 2.
Theoretically he could still apply to more, but he is mentally done with his college search, and really very excited about both of his top two, very different universities--one a large public in the south, and the other a medium sized private in the midwest.

Anonymous wrote:Oh my. Parent of a junior. I'm assuming those who are applying to 15+ schools are applying to many that have a common application. Cannot imagine writing supplemental essays for 15 schools?

My daughter only applied to 6, all using the Common App but she wrote 11 essays as all schools had at least one supplemental school specific essay! It is A Lot!

11

my kid is applying to 9. Seems like 8-12 are the range that most kids are applying to.

Oh my. Parent of a junior. I'm assuming those who are applying to 15+ schools are applying to many that have a common application. Cannot imagine writing supplemental essays for 15 schools?

NP here. My DS has applied to 8 so far -- 1 ED, 6 EA, 1 RD w/an 11/15 deadline. He'll add 5 UC campuses by 11/30. Depending on the outcome of this early round, he's ready to ​max out his Common App with another 13 schools to make for a total of 26. (One of the ones already submitted had to be done via the Coalition App.) His list is entirely composed of what should be targets and safeties - no reaches.

Mine applied to 4 or 5 and got accepted to all of them with merit scholarship offers.

Anonymous wrote:Planning on 25. Whatever you wanna say about it.

How? 20 common app + 5 uc?

Planning on 25. Whatever you wanna say about it.

9 - 5 EA and 4 RD.