Youdon'tsay

Good to know, EG. I know his account login and all, but I just haven't been motivated to open it up and look at what's in there. That's his job. anyway.

Gamom, I think what EG is talking about is that, IIRC, the kids were asked to list the courses they had taken and that they planned to take senior year.

GA2012MOM

Wow, I completely misunderstood that! I was thinking you had to take a class on financial aid or something, lol!

ExcitedG

No, what I'm referring to is an actual online short course or session, or whatever you want to call it. It's about 10 minutes long for each one and there's 5 or 6 of them. One on financial aid. They're a quiz at the end of it...perhaps they did start it this year. I'm not sure.

Youdon'tsay

I remember him talking about that.

Significa

Anyone know if you have to follow their recommendation form? I already requested recommendations which are to be picked up next year. Can I just submit those instead?

lsjny09

Does anyone know if it's pointless to skip the college match and just apply regular decision through QB?

heartofdarkness2

At the College Prep Scholarship conference, I know they said a lot of people do not even go through the Match process (early one) and just use the Regular Decision process through QB.

Someone mentioned this before, but QB takes about 50% of their applicants for the National College Match. And only like 11% are actually offered admissions through the Match. The majority of students get in through Regular Admissions. So I'd say unless you're completely sure one of their partner schools is for you, then apply through regular decision (not binding).

Anyone have their list ready for what partner schools they want?

Youdon'tsay

Are you saying that you can fill out the QB scholarship and request to just go through RD with the partner colleges?

4th house

Remember, most, but not all, of the partner schools will only match with a student who has an EFC of $0. The best way to decide if Match is for you is to see which schools you would want to match with. If you wanted Bowdoin, for example, which, I believe, only matches with $0 EFC applicants, and you don't have a $0 EFC, then I wouldn't waste my time. Yale, on the other hand, does not seem to limit to $0 EFC ... although, of course, it is harder overall to get into.

GA2012MOM

Yes you can do only RD, but if your son is interested in any of the non-binding schools, he has nothing to lose by putting them down during the match round and then adding the other schools for RD.

flyingllama

also, remember that some schools will automatically consider you for RD if you rank them but do not get matched... you don't have to forward anything or waste any time. I'm pretty sure Columbia, Penn, and Stanford are among those schools. That makes it very convenient because you have more time to improve on SATs etc... So that's another point for match instead of ED

Youdon'tsay

So, if you're a finalist then you rank none and just go into the RD round? I wonder how many people do that????

lsjny09

Thanks so much

welldad

4th house,

where are you getting this info about colleges only matching $0 EFC candidates? how do you know which one's will not use the $0 EFC?

heartofdarkness2

From what I remember at the conference, the "Match" process means your family will pay nothing, the school will cover it all. (You can still try for other scholarships, but essentially, you do not need to)
If you are not matched in the early round and forward your applications for regular decision, the schools you ranked may accept you (obviously). The main guy said that just because you are not "matched," does not mean the school does not want you--it may just mean that the school expects that your family can contribute to your tuition.