When I applied to colleges (graduated high school in 1999), I applied to 11, which, for my school (suburban NJ school where something like 95% of students went on to 4-year college), was a high number, but not ridiculously so. My sister, four years ahead of me, applied to 14, which was considered a bit excessive. I'm pretty sure that, in that town, somewhere between 10 and 15 is now pretty standard.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Hil R. - Sep 04, 2007 12:11:25 pm PDT #3983 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Laga - Sep 04, 2007 12:19:43 pm PDT #3984 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I went to the state-next-door college that both my parents and one sister graduated from. Then I dropped out and went to the junior college two blocks from home for four years.
§ ita § - Sep 04, 2007 12:21:14 pm PDT #3985 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At high school in the UK we could only apply to 5. Fill out one form which gets sent to all 5 universities and included a prioritised list of the schools you were interested to. I understood that you had to take the highest ranked one that wanted you, but I'm not sure how that was enforced.
Of course, if you were Oxbridge (Oxford or Cambridge) you got to have an elaborate system plonked on top of that, and I'm guessing no one ranked them lower than 1st, ever.
Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2007 12:24:30 pm PDT #3986 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I applied to...5 or 6. But my parents wouldn't let me go out-of-state, anyway.
tommyrot - Sep 04, 2007 12:25:54 pm PDT #3987 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I applied to three. All state schools, as my parents didn't contribute anything to my college expenses so I figured I couldn't afford a private school. But who knows - maybe I would have gotten enough financial aid....
Kathy A - Sep 04, 2007 12:27:17 pm PDT #3988 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wow, I only applied to two (Marquette and my back-up, Univ of IL Champaign-Urbana). I did fill out about half of the application for Yale, and considered applying to Lehigh as well, but ended up not even getting the application from them.
meara - Sep 04, 2007 12:27:37 pm PDT #3989 of 10001
When I applied to colleges (graduated high school in 1999), I applied to 11, which, for my school (suburban NJ school where something like 95% of students went on to 4-year college), was a high number, but not ridiculously so. My sister, four years ahead of me, applied to 14, which was considered a bit excessive. I'm pretty sure that, in that town, somewhere between 10 and 15 is now pretty standard
Good lord.
I applied to six and a half (I only half count applying to IU, because it was very half-ass and I had no intention of going there--if I'd actually ended upt here, I'd have been pissed I wasn't in any of the fancy honors stuff I didn't apply to!). Six was the most you could fill out on the FAFSA without having to request additional stuff, so...
I just got the job offer! I am less thrilled than expected, because they offered on the low end of the salary range. Sigh.
tommyrot - Sep 04, 2007 12:29:07 pm PDT #3990 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just got the job offer!
Yay!
I am less thrilled than expected, because they offered on the low end of the salary range. Sigh.
But still yay, right?
Can you ask for more money before you accept?
Sophia Brooks - Sep 04, 2007 12:29:32 pm PDT #3991 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow- I am delurking in Bitches just to say that as a 1991 graduate, we were advised to apply to THREE colleges, a long-shot, an average, and a back-up. I applied to 4 and every one thought I was crazy!
lisah - Sep 04, 2007 12:30:06 pm PDT #3992 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I just got the job offer! I am less thrilled than expected, because they offered on the low end of the salary range. Sigh.
feh for low-end of salary range but YAY for offer!!! Are you in a position to negotiate?
I applied to 5 schools and got into all of them and then realized I should have been more ambitious. Except I'm glad I ended up where I did because Yay my college friends!