Each senior at Camden charter school applied, on average, to more than 45 colleges

Statistics from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, which issues an annual report on college freshmen, says the percentage of high school seniors who submitted seven or more college applications rose from 9 percent in 1990 to 29 percent in 2012, dropping to 28 percent in 2012. The latest report on college admissions found that 77 percent of seniors applied to three or more colleges in 2012, up from 61 percent in 1990.

Counselors at some schools now set limits as to how many recommendations and transcripts they will send out — often capping the number at 10.  But at LEAP, the calculation was the more the better.How many colleges should high school seniors apply to? It depends on whom you ask.

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