National College Match - 2009-2010

<p>I’m mailing my financial aid forms + cover sheet because I don’t have access to a (cheap) fax machine. On the other hand, I want to fax my transcripts. It says “mail to” rather than give a fax number. Does anyone know if I CAN fax them, and more importantly, what fax number I should use?</p>

<p>has anyone else ranked Parsons. I would be so happy to be matched with Parsons for architecture. It was previously said that Questbridge neglects art students. I would have to disagree because they added Parsons as a partner this year. That shows some level of care for art students. I dont know. What do you fellow Questbridgers feel?</p>

<p>Can I fax my noncustodial waiver? Or do I mail it?</p>

<p>Crap, I can’t add QB finalist to my commonapp bc I already submitted it to one school.</p>

<p>Can I just mail my transcripts and financial aid stuff? (two different addresses though, right?)</p>

<p>Specifically on Yale/Stanford/Penn/Columbia… if anyone ranked any of those schools, how are you going about sending that material? Are you choosing to mail anything? Is there a way for us to verify that they receive the stuff?</p>

<p>I’m extremely paranoid about something getting lost in the cracks… I don’t trust paper copies flying around. All I want is an email that says “we have everything so just wait for a decision” :)</p>

<p>Does anyone know what the YaleID is? The Yale Financial Documents coversheet asks for it.</p>

<p>hey…is it supposed to say finalist in the locker page at all anywhere? I mean i got the email</p>

<p>xctf: i don’t think anybody’s QB page says finalist</p>

<p>I’m gonna send my ACT scores right now and wait for SAT II’s to come out October 29th before sending. Is there anyway I can get a fee waiver for ACT?? 4 Matched schools…3 scores…9 bucks each…$108.</p>

<p>@immortalix: Yale is supposed to send you your ID in an email</p>

<p>(I think this is like the 5th time I’ve said this today)</p>

<p>@tomjonesistheman: you can’t get a fee waiver for sending test scores unless you got a fee waiver for the actual test and even then you have to use the fee waiver within like 9 days of testing; I tried to do that too and ended up having to spend $108 for ACT and $38 for SAT; thankfully, I thought to send my subject test scores to three of my ranked colleges already, otherwise I would have spent like $200 just for sending test scores.</p>

<p>EDIT: I’m emailing Yale and asking when they plan on sending out the ID numbers; I hope it’s tomorrow!</p>

<p>QUESTION: Should I send my AP test scores too? Is this even possible or necessary?</p>

<p>Alright so I just paid $108 for four Matched colleges (I’ll send ACT scores to Regular Decision schools once I find out about Match results on 12/1). This is what everyone else is doing right?? just making sure…</p>

<p>and does anyone know the address for Stanford that we are supposed to send transcripts to? It just says “see Stanford application instructions” but idk where they are.</p>

<p>I’m only sending SAT scores, and good thing, I definitely don’t have $108 laying around - I’d have found a company I hate more than CollegeBoard, though! GW and Pitt already have my SAT scores, so those are going to cost me between $55 and $65. Since I’m not paying any application fees, CSS/PROFILE fees, or transcript fees, I can’t complain. Which is good, since I definitely don’t have $108 laying around. Ouch :frowning: I would have called the colleges to ask if I could send them my BEST score officially, then send them unofficial not-best scores in the interest of saving money. Honestly, I was always afraid to ask/apply for things like that, but I’ve had a lot of success with it this application season - and I’ve saved at least $1000.</p>

<p>Does anyone know how we will get access to my My Applicant Portal for Penn? The reason finalists need access to the applicant portal is because on the Penn coversheet it asks you to fill out another financial aid form by logging into the portal. </p>

<p>Penn says that you receive the password and username to sign in to the portal once you submit the common app, but since the questbridge app serves as the Penn application for finalists, how will we be receiving our ID’s?</p>

<p>@sinceredesichick: I just clicked on the link for the UPenn supplement off of the QB page for additional requirements for finalists and it let me in; I didn’t have to sign in to anything at all.</p>

<p>If we are matched with a school, do we have to provide our own transportation to get to that school? I saw that on the covered cost of tuition for the schools that I ranked, there is a travel expense thing. Does this mean that they pay for the trip up to the school? This seems extremely unlikely but what would be the reason for putting the travel expense thing on there in the first place?</p>

<p>@sinceredesichick</p>

<p>I also have that same question. I emailed the UPenn admissions office a couple hours ago about it and still haven’t received a response. I’ll let you know once I hear something.</p>

<p>@spiritualwatch - I think we might be talking about two different things here. On the college-specific requirements for Penn, I completed the supplement, which is number one on their requirement. What I’m referring to is #5, the cover sheet. If you click on the cover sheet link and open it, you’ll see that on the cover sheet it says:</p>

<p>“Penn Financial Aid Supplement (PFAS): Complete and submit online via the
MyPenn Applicant Portal if you are a US citizen or permanent resident. To access the
Applicant Portal, you will need your login credentials, which the Office of Admissions
will send you in early November, after they receive your QuestBridge Application and
the Penn Supplement.”</p>

<p>WOWWWW. I just read the last sentence and answered my own question. Now I’m having even a harder time believing I’m a finalist haha.</p>

<p>@chinaman, does ^^ answer your question to the Penn admissions office as well?</p>

<p>@ sinceredesichick it does but it raises another question. Won’t they have to send us the login info for the MyPenn Portal before the 2nd, which is the deadline for all the supplement materials?</p>

<p>Just lost our first football game of the season. At least finding out that I’m a finalist lightens up my mood a little. Have to start on all the required documents for finalists. Hopefully football won’t take up all my time against like it did the weeks before the app was due… Good luck everybody.</p>

<p>Yeah sinceredesichick, we were talking about different things. I saw supplement and immediately thought of the supplement to QB. oops :)</p>

<p>So… for UPenn, do we send everything except that one document or do we wait to receive the stuff for logging in? They should be getting our QuestBridge stuff soon so do they send this log in info as soon as they have that? Now I’m questioning whether or not to send in my financial forms tomorrow…</p>