<p>@alexandrafitzmor - Hey! missed you here! How/what RU doing?
Only 8 days to first round!!! :eek:</p>
<p>If I don’t get Finalist…my life is over.</p>
<p>@tom: You know what? I’m starting the mental preparation for bad news rigth now!..while writing my Princeton supplement essay XD</p>
<p>Oh the irony.</p>
<p>‘No Finalist’ ----AAAHHH - No, No, No!</p>
<p>Thought for today - TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY - (easy admit compared to QB Partner schools) and ‘brag acceptance’ in VAMPIRE accent!! :D</p>
<p>I am going crazy - I am already crazy! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>gah…hey guys do you think that since Princeton and Stanford make you submit Common App + supplements and recs/SSR that if my counselor maybe improved her QB letter and if I revised my QB essays…would they read both kinds of essays and recs from QB and Common App, and take both into consideration?</p>
<p>^^yeah, I think they’ll subconsciously take it into consideration whether they like it or not. It’s like that whole thing goes in debate: “don’t ask leading questions” and they object you but hey, the jury already heard it. 0_o</p>
<p>Questbridge team is so nice! They sent an email out and it’s so informative about how the application is now officially sent in, start working on stuff now…you can reuse essays/recs, etc. SO NICE!!!</p>
<p>Yeah if only they would change by GC’s rec from “not started” to “completed”. That would be even nicer.</p>
<p>yea…I hate how my counselor is not qualified for her job and thus will probably write a generic rec…and it’s out of my control too =[</p>
<p>and thanks crystal, I’m hoping that they do read both…cause I’m having doubts on my QB essays</p>
<p>tomjones - truthfully, counselors, unlike teachers, can’t write a “GLOWING” secondary school report under normal circumstances. Counselors simply keep track of your schedule, grades, disciplinary records, and such. I wouldn’t expect anything better than a “responsible student with great stats and hardest schedule rigor” from a counselor who has ~499 other kids to deal with.</p>
<p>@powerbomb: that’s so true. However, there’re some exceptions: In my old high school, I’m one of the fewww students who really care about going to college. So the counselor there was like my personal counselor.<br>
My high school this year has a bunch of ambitious students, who aim for top colleges.(which is the reason I decided to transfer)Now I have to “share” my counselor with hundreds of people. :))</p>
<p>I agree, there are exceptions. Luckily my counselor had both of my sisters before me and I frequently visited him, so he knows me better than most.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s really quite wonderful to have a full team of people (however impersonal it might be, as there are over 5000 applicants) rooting you on from Questbridge. Those emails really do help, and even if you don’t learn anything new, you do get a lot of reassurance. Remember that this whole thing is going to pay off enormously!</p>
<p>(I’m doing so/so, my life is kind of a wreck, but hey! It isn’t until you make it so, right?)</p>
<p>That’s right, alexandra, on both counts =)</p>
<p>At my old school, I was one of the few to go to any college but the community college. But that was even worse, since that was all my counselor knew. At my new school, we have one counselor for about twenty students (when I started QuestBridge there were only 12 of us) and at least half of them are juniors. On the flip side, he and my teachers are distance-learning, so… at least I get what I need long before the deadline!</p>
<p>i’m so tired guys… :(</p>
<p>life feels like a dream due to lack of sleep…</p>
<p>@CODE H: Tell me about it…SO. MUCH. PAPERWORK. </p>
<p>And so much worrying too…i have to call QB, Swart, and my teacher today…becoming an offical stalker.</p>
<p>Code H- ME TOO. gahhh lack of sleep is starting to get to me. Between work and school and sisters i’ve gotten maybe four hours over the past two days…of course thats not counting when i fell asleep in my theory of knowledge class;)</p>
<p>I’m starting to dream about QB…</p>
<p>MIT Interview today in 1.5 hours ahhhh</p>
<p>Good luck!!! ^^^^</p>