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Thank you We sneak College one oh one making a

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list How many schools would you say you should have

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on your final big list that you're going to narrow

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down from I'm generally at the end of sophomore year

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even into junior probably about twenty to thirty perspective colleges

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and that's just the big picture that's the ones that

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you could potentially think about applying to by the end

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of senior year you probably want to narrow it down

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to about ten to twenty schools at the very most

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and then even by same mid october about ten to

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fifteen is typically the average i think my brother replied

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to three colleges but that was a long time ago

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and i didn't apply to many more than that and

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i find that the numbers seem to be growing a

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little bit but it could become too big And so

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by the time you're actually applying to the colleges you

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don't wanna have to keep filling out essay after essay

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and emailing the admissions reps and visiting also i think

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keeping a smallest thing and it might like where you

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out to apply to so many and you can't really

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focus as well on The school that you're really excited

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about So then maybe all of your application kind of

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that's kind of the danger is you find yourself writing

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too many essays and you're trying to answer too many

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questions about why do i want to go to this

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knowledge And you start sounding like you're not being genuine

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because you're using a lot of copy and paste because

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you just don't have time I think a lot of

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seniors start to forget that they're actually seniors and they

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still have homework and exams and papers do So where

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did they find the time to do the applications On

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top of that if you have too many then you're

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starting to really delete your answers a little bit They

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say that when you're trying on wedding dresses you should

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not try on wedding dresses that you can't afford does

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the same go for colleges if you know you know

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that this college doesn't offer the kind of scholarships financial

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aid you would need Should you not even look at

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him Is it worth it It's absolutely worth it because

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you never know what kind of financially they might actually

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offer you here's what Happens is when you apply you

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send in that application electronically and then there's a committee

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of people so you have a least A couple of

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people are revealing that they meet is a committee and

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there are some admissions officers who are going to get

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so attached to you based on what you've written your

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teacher recommendations your extracurriculars and they might be fighting really

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hard for you and literally go into the dean of

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admissions office and say we need offer the student scholarship

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but you're not going to know that until you actually

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apply And so i think if you visit that college

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you just keep your mind open that there might be

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a possible scholarship in there for you So colleges they're

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not winning that's very true Yeah many way many fit

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Okay you should have twenty to thirty prospective colleges by

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sophomore junior year You should have ten to twenty prospective

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colleges by your senior year You should have ten to

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fifteen prospective colleges by mid october of your senior year

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Be careful to balance your time between school and applications

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They can't get a lot of seized their your senior

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year Please applied to schools even if you're unsure whether

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you'll receive financial aid or not Making a list and 00:03:06.783 --> [endTime] checking it twice

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