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Originally Posted by alum
College applications are a whole different ballgame.
Tabulating Senusret's list and adding at least 1 school from NY, he applied to 10 or more colleges/universities. This is definitely a generational phenomenon. When I applied to colleges in the early 80s, the college counselors were recommending 5 applications. 2 reaches, 2 matches and 1 safety. A couple of decades + later, my D was applying to schools and HER CC said the average hs student applied to 8 for a breakdown of 3 reaches, 3 matches, and 2 safeties.
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Yeah, in both my undergrad and law school application processes, quantity was stressed. I don't think I had a "safety" school, per se; my high school transcript/resume was really good, and I made my application decisions based on journalism/liberal arts programs (in case I didn't want to stick with journalism, which turned out to be a good decision). Looking back, one of the schools I shouldn't have even applied to, but I only applied to 6 and wasn't going to go overboard applying to schools where I had no intention of going.