[BostonCard]

She's about a year away from being in a position to make a decision (although she could always announce some time earlier).  I don't see anything wrong with (and in fact, I would have encouraged her to) keeping a fairly broad list at this point in the process, and to me, two plus years before she would be enrolling, nine schools is a perfectly acceptable number.  At the same time, this allows her to (politely) tell all other programs to stop sending her stuff.

I'm sure internally she might have an informal pecking order, but I don't see the harm with her keeping a larger list of options at this time.

BC

[BostonCard]

She's about a year away from being in a position to make a decision (although she could always announce some time earlier).  I don't see anything wrong with (and in fact, I would have encouraged her to) keeping a fairly broad list at this point in the process, and to me, two plus years before she would be enrolling, nine schools is a perfectly acceptable number.  At the same time, this allows her to (politely) tell all other programs to stop sending her stuff.

I'm sure internally she might have an informal pecking order, but I don't see the harm with her keeping a larger list of options at this time.

BC