2002 AMC 10A Problem 21

The mean, median, unique mode, and range of a collection of eight integers are all equal to $8$. The largest integer that can be an element of this collection is

$\text{(A)}\ 11 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 12 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 13 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 14 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 15$