<p>bluepurple, you might be not understanding the match process, as it sounds your sister didn’t. You ONLY rank schools that you want. If you ONLY want Swarthmore, just rank them. If you will be happy at either Swat or Amherst, rank those two. Just because you can rank up to 8 schools does not mean you HAVE to. Please go to the Questbridge website and read everything, it might make things more clear.</p>
<p>You might want to refer to this table [National</a> College Match Program: 2008 College Match Recipient Profile](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/profiles_class2013/stats.html]National”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/profiles_class2013/stats.html) </p>
<p>Your family income of $50,000 is well within the parameters of matched students.</p>
<p>edit: I saw your sisters profile on the QB site, and she seems like an amazing young woman.</p>