<p>I dont know this might sound like a cliche question but i feel everything is strong in my application accept for my critical reading. Im scared it will repel admission people. You all sound so intellectual, how do you feel about your SAT scores? I’m having second thoughts. Well more like hundreds of thoughts.
I love ranting!!!</p>
<p>Of course you can send your new SAT scores to any school, especially those you ranked for the match. Hopefully you all indicated your ranked schools as those you would like to receive for free. 
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<p>That being said, you might want to print out your “unoficial” score report on the 29th, put your name, SS# and QB ID# on the top of them, and fax them directly only to the schools you ranked. Of course they will be getting them from Collegeboard, but this puts you on the radar much quicker when they start reading the QB apps, IMO of course.</p>
<p>Afterthought, maybe include a cover sheet with your info that I stated above, and a note stating these are your updated SAT scores.</p>
<p>Why do you think QB requires you to RANK before confirming your FINALIST status?</p>
<p>Do you think there is some ‘formula’ to choose Finalists according to which schools are ranked?- Maybe to ‘spread’ things out so that all the QB partner colleges participate in the MATCH? </p>
<p>Seems like YPMS are choices in almost everyone’s rankings, and some schools have hardly been mentioned as ranked at all.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any magical formula. GTC. Also you need to remember that the CC applicants are a miniscule portion of applicants. I’m sure many of them are applying to varying QB partner schools. Remember, CC posters happen to be on the most part EXTREME overacheiver’s, therefore that is why you are seeing alot of you applying to HYPMS.</p>
<p>@MOM: I was just thinking that this morning! lol…The group of us only represent the QB population to an extent, because i know that many of us are overachievers. There must be a multitude of QB applicants out there only ranking some of the smaller LACs like Haverford, Trinity, Wellesley etc.</p>
<p>I mean I ranked Wesleyan and Vassar, but they are beneath UPenn, Yale, Brown, and Princeton…in truth, I’d be the happiest person in the world to match anywhere.</p>
<p>@ Ju_liaa: oh my goodness i know:P matching ANYWHERE would be such a huge relief for me! I think i would die of happiness!</p>
<p>On the topic of rankings, I did rank northwestern, brown, and U chicago ahead of YMPS, so not everyone on the forum is going for the big schools as top choice but i can definitely see the people on this forum being slightly misrepresentative of the greater population…you guys are all just TOO SMART! ;)</p>
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<p>In my opinion, the timeline of the process is the main reason. Announcing who is a finalist and only then asking for rankings from finalists would give QB too little time to communicate to colleges. If that information is already at hand, the QB staff can communicate right away with each college that has students ranking it that {list of students} has ranked the college, and rapidly let each college reply with the list of students whom that college is willing to match. Remember that students get to rank colleges, but colleges don’t rank-order students. The colleges bind themselves to admit ALL the students that they make match offers to. (This, by the way, suggests that Yale may have made more match offers last year than were publicly reported, because some of those offers are known only to the QB staff, who observed that some of those students had ranked other colleges ahead of Yale.) QB lets each finalist student know about the highest college on the student’s ranked list that offered the student a college match. Five colleges offer nonbinding matches (but in all cases, a student only receives one match offer through the National College Match process) and if a student is matched by any of the other colleges, the binding match colleges, the student is done applying for the year.</p>
<p>what if someone is accepted into more than 1 non-binding schools. of course he/she gets into his/her highest ranked…but will the other non-binding schools to which he/she is accepted tranfer the student into their RD pool (this means they’ll know you didn’t rank them first?)</p>
<p>tokenadult - <“QB staff can communicate right away with each college that has students ranking it that {list of students} has ranked the college, and rapidly let each college reply with the list of students whom that college is willing to match.” ></p>
<p>@tokenadult - So - I’m pretty dense here- (Anxiety, anxiety clouding my brain!) 
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<p>RU saying that (for logistics sake?) QB sends ea. college a list of submitted (Oct. 12) RANK & MATCH Agreements - before - announcing (Oct. 23) QB FINALIST decisions ? - so, colleges can decide whom it will Match (only) amongst those that have ranked their college?
Wow! QB office must be collating Finalist & Rank listings now? </p>
<p>Thank you CC (The place to rant & vent)
Thank you to all participating for ongoing support.</p>
<p>It helps a lot to share thoughts - here are some of my own :o</p>
<pre><code>Some calculators showed me a very limited $$EFC (hope I figured wrongly) since any $$EFC will prevent a QB Match - my final college decision will most probably be through Reg. Decision and will also include apps to non QB schools.
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<p>After much agonizing, I did not rank non-binding QB schools - (My first choices were all non-binding anyway) In the rare chance of a QBmatch, I did not want to be ‘bound’ to a school far down my list, and have no chance for an acceptance thru Reg. Decision at a preferred choice. :eek:</p>
<p>After reading, reading & re-reading other’s experiences - IMHO % best chance acceptance for me was Reg. Decision through a QB application.</p>
<p>Yeah, it would be fantastic & a huge relief to be all done by Dec. 1 - BUT if a QB match was not my first choice I would feel that I didn’t give the process my all - I’m aiming for my TOP REACH even if it means more work, delay & anxiety.
I can’t win the lottery uness I buy a ticket! ;)</p>
<p>100 or so, extreme, very driven, high achieving, smart, smart, QB applicants actively posting here. 
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<p>Friday’s Luck to all :)</p>
<p>@CodeH - Good question… Answer anyone/?</p>
<p>If I got matched into any of my 3 ranked schools - I’d ‘grab it’ and RUN like hell!
Well - OK - maybe wait for Harvard - :D</p>
<p>@GA2012MOM: About that whole “printing the unofficial SAT/ACT scores and faxing them to colleges”…Is that what your son/daughter did for her colleges that she matched? I’m just worried that faxing them too much stuff will clog the process, but hey, I’m not the expert at applying to college, lol. </p>
<p>@GTC: reading and re-reading other’s experiences? Are you talking about the matched applicants’ profiles or the regular decisions forum on here where they post the profiles of regular people who get in?</p>
<p>I will let GA2012MOM or any other veteran participant here correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe that what QB does is </p>
<p>[QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Process Overview](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/process.html#Match]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/process.html#Match) </p>
<p>1) decide who the finalists are </p>
<p>and then </p>
<p>2) RIGHT AWAY say to each college that any finalist matched, “Here is an unranked list of all the finalists who ranked your college in the National College Match application process, and here are their QuestBridge application files for your use in deciding which students to whom you would like to make National College Match offers.” Some (most) of those colleges also expect students to send along other forms and materials. The colleges use their short time window to look over the list of all students who ranked each college (which would be a long list, I’m sure, in the case of the nonbinding colleges) and then communicate back to QB to say, “We will make National College Match offers to {list of student names}.” </p>
<p>THEN </p>
<p>3) The QB office notes which National College Match offer for each student, if any, comes from the highest ranked college ranked by that student, and tells the student only about that offer. You never know how many other colleges might have matched you. You ranked those colleges lower because you desired the higher-ranked college on your list more, for whatever reason was important to you. </p>
<p>See if this matches what is said on QB’s link </p>
<p>[QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Process Overview](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/process.html#Match]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/process.html#Match) </p>
<p>and note again that students rank colleges but colleges don’t rank students.</p>
<p>@crystal - Well I’ve read all the QB matched applicant profiles and the entire 2008 and 2007 QB threads. - Also spoken w/college admissions, interviewers etc.
I’m can’t compare grades, scores, EC’s etc. because they may not be presented accurately, and of course I have no way of knowing the true stengths and weakness’ of others’ application - I was just thinking of admission percentages taking into consideration my own particular application strengths & weakness’.
Hey - I could be absolutely off-base - it’s just the way I thought and figured it out for me!</p>
<p>@GTC: ahh, I see. Thanks. </p>
<p>Are any of you guys submitting supplemental letters of recommendation? </p>
<p>I’m trying to figure out if it would be a bad idea or not…</p>
<p>So pretty much, colleges like Princeton and Stanford will read 4 letters of recommendation (er, 3 for me, since I reused one of the teachers). Do you think sending a supp letter will be a little too excessive?</p>
<p>^ im wondering the same thing…IS there an advantage to sending supplemental letters and/or new rec letters? or is it overkill?</p>
<p>for recommendations do we have to get new ones, or can we use the ones that were suppose to be giving in the college match application?</p>
<p>You can use the same letters.</p>
<p>@tokenadult - Sorry, my bad - I must have misinterpeted your post #2768</p>
<p>I read it as though you were writing about RANK - which is already at hand on Oct. 12) - mention of RIGHT AWAY had me freaked!</p>
<p><“information is already at hand, the QB staff can communicate right away with each college that has students ranking it that {list of students} has ranked the college”> </p>
<p>This Timeline makes sense to me -
#1. QB will decide Finalists (Oct. 23) #2. QB will submit list of Finalists (who ranked their college) to each college #3. Colleges decide whom they will Match.</p>
<p>Whew! I was thinking collusion between colleges and QB for Finalist & Match distribution</p>
<p>Well - I used and re-used whatever I could and didn’t send anything other than what was required. </p>
<p>Can you imagine how many apps these guys have to read over? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>UNLESS you have some really compelling information you were not able to show, I think it is overkill to send in extra stuff.</p>
<p>But - JMHO - everyone to his own </p>