Octopus28 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Hi everyone! I'm curious how many school people are going to apply to. I originally had a list of 5 schools. From there, it expanded to 11. Now that I submitted 3 so far, I'm starting to think to go back to around 5-7 schools. Any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERR_Alpha Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I was told to apply to as many that you could afford, had time to dedicate to, and saw a good research fit. Most people seem to apply to 5-15, depending on how specialized their research interests are. Chimeric Phoenix and dstock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dstock Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I applied to 7. I got 5 interviews-since schools generally have interviews around the same time I think it ended up being 5 weekends in a row. I definitely would not have wanted to do more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appsitude Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 5-12 seems like a good number to apply to. 5 interviews was about the max I could do without over-stretching myself last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopus28 Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share Posted November 17, 2014 Thanks for everyone's feedback. I've applied to 5 schools thus far, all in-reach schools. Nervous for applying for my two (huge) reach schools! But I think I'm going to do it... Being denied is probably better than not knowing at all. stygldbby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appsitude Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Thanks for everyone's feedback. I've applied to 5 schools thus far, all in-reach schools. Nervous for applying for my two (huge) reach schools! But I think I'm going to do it... Being denied is probably better than not knowing at all. Go for it! Bizarre things happen during application season. I have had friends be rejected from their safeties and get in at all of their reaches. Might as well go for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamrock_Frog Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I applied to 10 schools. I have interviews at 2 so far, and a few more haven't sent out invites yet. The 10 took me a lot of time and work and I don't know how people apply to more than 10 and really tailor their application to the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewz Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I planned to apply to 16 and had all my recommenders submit letters to 16 schools (oops, sorry!) 1-2 months in advance. But I ended up being the one procrastinating and started seriously working on my parts of the apps on Thanksgiving (all due Dec 1-ish). Needless to say I didn't have the time, or energy, to finish all of them. So I downsized my plan to 12, but decided to throw out UCLA, Chicago, UMich, and PSU as I was going through their faculty research in detail one last time due to poor research fit. TL;DR: Applied to 8. In retrospect, 16 was insane and I'm glad I didn't apply to that many. (I did have my GRE sent to ~20 schools tho. ETS I'm staring at you in anger :/) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusWoman Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 More than 2 ballwera 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovelab Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 However many you can afford/your LoR writers are willing to submit to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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