<p>When will I know if I get a CSS profile fee waiver? I’ve finished filling it out and everything and kept going until I saw how much it would cost: a grand total of $105! Does QB decide right away and how do you know if you qualify for one from Collegeboard?</p>
<p>If you saw the grand total, $105, you didn’t get a CollegeBoard fee waiver. The CollegeBoard fee waiver shows up on that page. It will say $105. And then it will say fee waiver credit: $105. And then there is a little paragraph explaining that you got the fee waiver. I’m not sure about QuestBridge’s fee waivers.</p>
<p>would it be to my advantage to rank a school that I have a chance at higher up? I am thinking because lets say i rank Northwestern as the last one, will the others who listed theirs at number 4 or 3 get in before me and thus reduce my chances?</p>
<p>@Paki: I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t make a difference, but it’s a good question. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>The schools do not know what other schools you ranked or even if you ranked any others but theirs. They get the pile of Questbridge applications in no particular order and read through them and make their choices accordingly.Therefore it makes no difference what order you rank them in terms of changing your odds of acceptance. But remember you only receive notification from the highest ranked school on your list that accepts you.</p>
<p>^Yes, but you are not understanding my question. It is not about colleges knowing. I am asking if another student lets say ranked Rice as #1 and I ranked in as #8. Will he/she get in before be, thereby reducing my chances?</p>
<p>Also, I read that colleges pay Questbridge a few thousand dollars extra for every applicant they take in the match round. So you really have to stand out for them to take you National match. So I won’t be discouraged if no match, because the advantage is better for a regular decision acceptance.</p>
<p>Paki, nameofthegame is correct. You are NOT competing against the rankings of other applicants. The schools do not know if you ranked them #1 or #8. It is as simple as do they want you or not. 1000 finalists could rank them #1, and you rank them #8. The committee will simply say if they want to offer paki a match slot or not.</p>
<p>Only if you get accepted by another non binding school that you ranked higher would it affect your acceptance chance at Rice. In that scenario, you will never know if Rice chose you in the match round. You decide to continue the application process to Rice and you ask Questbridge to put your application for Rice regular decison. They have already filled a slot with the applicant who ranked them #1. That is the only possible way I figure that it would make a difference. But in that scenario you got picked by a school you wanted to go to more anyway. Hope that answer makes more sense.</p>
<p>Rankings ONLY come into play if more than one school chooses you for the match. For example, I know of a second school that also wanted my D, (was told by the person in charge of QB for that school when we phoned them to withdraw the application after she was matched to her #1.) I think D had ranked that school #4. Rankings only matter in this scenario of 2 or more schools matching you.</p>
<p>Just read the post above by nameofthegame. I’m not sure I am understanding that post, but it is plain and simple. Others rankings have ZERO impact on you. It is simple, you put down schools x y and z, and if more than one of them wants you, you are made an offer to the highest on YOUR totem pole. I repeat, the rankings of others have NOTHING to do with you.</p>
<p>If you rank non binding schools first, will you be notified of your matches with those schools AND the binding ones, or just the first one that accepts you?</p>
<p>Let’s say…</p>
<p>MIT, Stanford, Yale, and U of Chicago.</p>
<p>MIT, Yale, and U of Chicago accept me. Will I be notified of only MIT, or the 2 non binding ones AND U of Chicago?</p>
<p>You only get “matched” with one school, the highest on your rankings. Binding or non-binding, it doesn’t make a difference.</p>
<p>…oh. I didn’t know that at all. So I ranked Yale #2, but if I get into my #1 I’ll never know and I won’t be able to choose between them even if they are both non-binding? Er… so what’s the purpose of them being non-binding, again?</p>
<p>So that you can apply to other schools RD.</p>
<p>Edit: And attend one of those schools should you be accepted.</p>
<p>If you get matched to a nonbinding school, can you still send your apps RD via QB to a binding school? Or is the fact that you got matched take you out of the equation for RD?</p>
<p>^^^^^^</p>
<p>YDS, yes, you can forward your QB app to any schools if you are matched with a non-binding school.</p>
<p>Even ones you didn’t rank initially? Sorry, my brain is fried.</p>
<p>I don’t know how the app was set up this year, but two years ago, they had a section to rank your schools for the match, and then another section for schools that you would like your app forwarded if you are not matched. I would assume it is generally the same, as most kids are hesitant to rank alot of schools due to the binding aspect, but still have enough interest in other partner schools to want to apply through RD.</p>
<p>Hmm…so if I’m a Finalist but not Matched…I have a choice of which schools I want to forward my QB app to in Regular Decision right? Because I feel like I could improve my essays just a little bit…</p>
<p>Would not using the RD forwarding service harm me in any way? Would those colleges still recognize my QB finalist (if I get it) status? Thanks!</p>
<p>tomjonesistheman, yo7 are correct that if you are a finalist but not match, you then have your app forwarded to the schools that you chose for the RD round. You will NOT be able to change your essays however. You will be locked out of your QB app, probably when the Oct. 8th extension is up.</p>
<p>I’m not sure why would you even consider not having your QB app forwarded, do you want to apply to QB partner schools via common app and simply put down “QB finalist” as an award? I have never thought of this, as it makes no sense to me why you would want to do it. A couple of thoughts…partner schools pay QB to get a MORE thorough picture of QB applicants. Using a QB app is giving a school MUCH more information about you than just being in the “regular pile,” so I can’t think of any advantage for not using QB during RD. The other thing is that I would think you need to go through the proper QB channels that each school has set up (supplements, etc.) to get your app fee waiver. If you did the common app/put down QB finalist route, I’m sure you would be expected to cough up app fees on your own.</p>
<p>If your reasoning for asking that you want to tweak your essays…do you think you could crank out better ones in a short period of times vs. the QB essays you worked, and worked…and worked on forever? The benefits of using the QB app FAR outweigh not using it. JMHO</p>