Question of the Week: How Many Colleges Should You Apply To?

Ashley Thorne

This week's Question of the Week is

How Many Colleges Should Students Apply To? 

Last Friday we started a "Question of the Week" series. We'll have a new higher-education-related question every week. To answer, leave a comment on this article, email Ashley Thorne at [email protected], or respond via Facebook or Twitter. Keep it Twitter length: no more than 140 characters. We'll gather up the answers and post them so you can see what others had to say. And if you answer via Twitter, we'll retweet you!

Readers' responses to last week's question, Why did you choose the college you attended/attend? are posted on the NAS Blog.  

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