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08-20-2009, 04:33 PM
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#766 | | Junior Member
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The special Questbridge application is designed to allow you to express the challenges that you're overcome.
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08-20-2009, 04:38 PM
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#767 | | Member
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QB recruits lower income applicants for their partner colleges. These particular colleges WANT some lower income students. While your regular app to Columbia -- or anywhere else for that matter -- may tell how high-achieving you are, it will provide no direct prompts as to your income level. Being with QB and using the QB app does accomplish this.
Look at it another way -- we all know that legacies have a leg up in admissions. What if you were a legacy but the college you were applying to never knew it? If a tree falls in a forest ...
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08-20-2009, 06:08 PM
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#768 | | Junior Member
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| Passing it on..........
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08-20-2009, 07:05 PM
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#769 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Nowhere Special
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I'm just wondering, if one of your grandparent's is a legacy, would that count for or against you on the QuestBridge application? He only got an associates degree, so i'm not even sure if it counts. That still doesn't mean my income is higher than 60K though, so I don't know if it damages my chances.
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08-20-2009, 08:14 PM
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#770 | | Senior Member
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I guess it would help. Legacy ≠ rich, but legacy = better chances
nice combo. of course, I could be wrong. Do associates degrees even count as legacy?
What sucks, though, is that my dad attended Stanford but didn't graduate, so I'm not even legacy lol =/
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08-20-2009, 11:23 PM
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#771 | | Member
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Good advice here!
Stupid question: So if you are selected as a Finalist by QB, and then apply to the schools through Match, can you get flat-out REJECTED by the schools? As in, could they reject you so that you can't even apply to them RD? Or do they always just defer you to RD?
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08-20-2009, 11:30 PM
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#772 | | Senior Member
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good question
no, any school you rank through the match process will let you apply RD if not matched (provided you're not bound anywhere by that point). there is no rejection.
never though of that before. i guess that adds points to the ED/EA vs CollegeMatch debate
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08-21-2009, 09:16 AM
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#773 | | Senior Member
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I'm just wondering, if one of your grandparent's is a legacy, would that count for or against you on the QuestBridge application? He only got an associates degree, so i'm not even sure if it counts. That still doesn't mean my income is higher than 60K though, so I don't know if it damages my chances.
| I'm not sure what you are meaning by "legacy." If your grandfather has an associates degree, he is not a legacy for ANY QB partner school. Are you thinking about "first generation" by chance? Quote: |
no, any school you rank through the match process will let you apply RD if not matched (provided you're not bound anywhere by that point). there is no rejection.
| Very true, you are simply deferred to the RD pile, however, you still have the advantage of having the QB application with all the additional information and essays. Quote: |
never though of that before. i guess that adds points to the ED/EA vs CollegeMatch debate
| There should not be any debate when it comes to kids that are qualified for QB. It is clearly the better way to go. No question.
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08-21-2009, 10:34 AM
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#774 | | Junior Member
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'lurking' on the Parent's 2010 thread - passing this on.............
This looks like a good/funny TV movie to watch - We don't have cable - but I might go over to my Aunt's to watch.....
Lifetime Movie at 9PM Sat. "Acceptance"
About the Movie
High school student and overachiever Taylor Rockefeller is weathering the storm of her senior year while at the same time struggling to cope with the stress of applying to her dream colleges. Complicating her life even further, her parents are on the verge of a breakup, and her mother, Nina, is focused on Taylor getting into a top school for the sole purpose of meeting a suitable husband. But when Taylor decides that the lowly ranked Yates College is the right choice for her, she and her mom face off over what is really best for her future happiness.
Taylor’s close friends, Harry and Maya, also gunning for admission to top universities, are not above going to extremes themselves in order to be accepted into the schools of their choice.
Together, the three friends and their modern-day, dysfunctional families navigate SAT scores, campus visits and school applications as they try to remain sane during the highly competitive process of college admissions that most American families with high school kids have to face.
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08-21-2009, 10:53 AM
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#775 | | Junior Member
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GA2012MOM: Is that so? The college i'm talking about specifically is UPenn, and on their website, they told me that having any degree counts as being a legacy. If not, that's fine. I'm not sure what you mean by "First generation by chance" though.
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08-21-2009, 12:49 PM
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#776 | | Junior Member
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Does Questbridge forward recommendations as well or do they only forward the application (during the Regular Decision process)?
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08-21-2009, 01:55 PM
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#777 | | Senior Member
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Mare, Legacy ONLY means that your parents are graduates of that particular university or college. So no, you are NOT a legacy. Penn does not have an associates degree.
Terp, the rec's will be forwarded. All materials you have submitted will go to your RD schools.
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08-21-2009, 03:02 PM
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#778 | | Junior Member
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Thanks GA2012MOM!
The Regular Decision forwarding process is only for finalists, right? I assume the non-finalists just continue their non-Questbridge, Common App RD Applications...
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08-21-2009, 08:09 PM
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#780 | | Junior Member
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sooo I'm a bit anxious about whether or not I'll be a finalist. I think everything else is fine except my SAT because at the time I took it(may), it was the first time I saw an SAT. ( I got a combined 1940, and QB only accepts June or earlier) anyone think I should worry? Also, what happens if I'm not a finalist, is there any advantage, or did all my hard work go to nothing?
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