<p>I know Yale is going to email us our Yale ID shortly…</p>
<p>Oh jeez all this talk of College-specific requirements is bringing me down - I haven’t started any of that yet! I begin tomorrow.
If you don’t mind, would a non-finalist post their Questbridge letter up? I wonder what the acceptance rate was this year.</p>
<p>Alright, so it is almost 9 p.m here and I’ve yet to receive an e-mail letting me know if I’m a finalist or not…should I be worried?</p>
<p>Subject: “National College Match Application Status”</p>
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<p>@sunflower28 - I hope it’s some kind of ‘server’ glitch - You’re on the West Coast? Do you use Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, other? Maybe someone with your same e-mail can respond? The good news is that you haven’t recieved a NOT Finalist e-mail !!!</p>
<p>I can see 41 names that posted Finalist status
Still missing a lot of good people. :rolleyes:
Will watch for lots more successful postings.</p>
<p>I hope this year we beat the percentages!</p>
<p>(36 have joined the Facebook QBFinalist group) :eek:</p>
<p>Congrats to all those who made it…</p>
<p>I’m still pretty upset that I didn’t make finalist. Here are my stats for prospective QB applicants </p>
<p>SAT: 2110
SAT II : two 700+s
GPA: 3.94/4.3
EC: I thought this was my strong point
Rec: Counselor-great, teacher 1-good, teacher 2-excellent
Essays: Excellent/decent/decent autobio
Income: 19K
INTERNATIONAL</p>
<p>EDIT: somebody mentioned that even non-finalists can get their application fees waived and applications forwarded? which schools do this?</p>
<p>EDIT EDIT: I’m surprised that, despite the ~47% acceptance rate, not as many CC members got accepted. I remember even TASP, whose acceptance rate is something like 6%, admitted a considerable number of students from CC alone.</p>
<p>powerbomb, [QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Regular Decision Table](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/post_match.html]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/post_match.html)</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>SAT I: 2230
SAT II: 800 on Chinese, three 700+‘s on my others
GPA: 4.00/4.6 (top in class)
EC: Decent, spent quite a bit of time on them. Included leadership and volunteer experience. On a whole, should be above average for a homeschooled student.
Honors: International music certification (ABRSM level 8), a local regional essay contest award, many Mock Trial awards.
Recs: Counselor – excellent; teacher 1 – excellent; teacher 2 – great.
Essays: Excellent, great
Autobiography: Decent
Other: TASP alumni, two years’ worth of college units.</p>
<p>I think that when they say that they look for different criteria in QB applicants, they mean it. </p>
<p>Now I’m starting to think that I should have played the pity card more.</p>
<p>I’m really surprised as to how you guys with outstanding stats didn’t get to the final round. My SAT I score sucks, but I’m sure my essays, ec’s, and recs all made up for it.</p>
<p>yeah I only got a 2080 sat (680 chem 770 math2 subject tests) and I got finalist, im pretty happy</p>
<p>@ib612, my SAT I is way lower. Took it again Oct. 10 so hopefully I improved a lot. SAT II were good though: 780 Bio, 740 Chem, 800 Spanish, 760 Literature, 780 Math II.</p>
<p>For anyone who’s applying to MIT, can any of you track any of the materials they have recieved from you on your myMIT account? I sent my test scores to them ages ago but my account shows no sign of them having recieved it. I’ve had a few glitches on my account before, so I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be seeing anything or not.</p>
<p>Finalist! whooo! i did not think i would get in… here are my stats if anyone is interested…</p>
<p>ACT composite 29
GPA 3.75/4.2
52k a year
EC: volleyball essentially… a lot of volleyball
im 14th in my class… (at a good school…)
15 ap classes
i must have had great recs (which i never read) because i really feel under qualified
Essays: not that strong but i had great topics about my family life</p>
<p>so yeah basically im so stoked right now </p>
<p>and cant find the qbfinalist facebook group…</p>
<p>@gettocollege: i really hope its just some server glitch and not something more serious because it is now 10:30 pm and still nothing. I guess I’ll just check tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>This is a bit late, but I am a finalist! (for anyone who’s counting).</p>
<p>I made the finalist too.</p>
<p>I was REALLY surprised when I found out the news…compared to most of you I seem to be really weak.
Some stat if anyone interested:</p>
<p>SAT:1990 verbal: 540, math: 760. writing: 690(retook the oct. tho…)
GPA 4.0/4.2
40k a year
not first college generation…both parents went to grad school
EC: all church activities with a few charities/not strong overall
rank: 48 out of 1329 (but a really competitive school) (an Okay rank…)
7 aps total…with10 honors i think (really few AP)
Rec: dunno…but all my teachers and counselor seem to have written me great recs
Essays: spent a lot of time…and I think they are good(get good feedback)
NO JOB EXPERIENCE</p>
<p>I’m really happy to be a finalist because when I saw the stats on QB, which says that 75% of the finalists are first college generation, I was pretty upset.</p>
<p>But I think what set me apart is my background.
I came here three years ago with my bro alone…my mom is working overseas.
So I’ve kinda lived on my own since I was 14…and started learning Eng at that age.</p>
<p>I guess I kinda know what QB is looking for…
They don’t want the score or anything…they wanna see how well you’ve done regarding of how you’ve overcome obstacles</p>
<p>so i’m a finalist too! YAY. i grabbed my debate coach’s laptop and looked it up before my round today. but I have two questions…</p>
<ol>
<li><p>don’t the transcripts have to be mailed? and i have college credit from ashland u. i can request transcripts be sent directly to the school, so that would work, right?</p></li>
<li><p>Should i send my second score act’s? i scored lower but put it on QB.</p></li>
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<p>first time - writing 35, reading 32, math 29, science 30, essay 10 - composite 32. writing composite 33</p>
<p>second time - writing 30, reading 35, math 32, science 28, essay 8 - composite 31, writing composite 28 or 29 (don’t remember)</p>
<p>the second scores aren’t on my transcript but on QB, so any ideas?</p>
<p>THANKS! :)</p>
<p>So I was very happy today to find out I was a finalist.</p>
<p>Then I went out to dinner with my mom, and she asked me if I’d said I would be the first generation to go to college. I said I had, but apparently I’m not!</p>
<p>Background: My dad died nine years ago and I don’t really know much about him. I didn’t know until tonight that he had graduated college. My mom has not graduated from a 4 year college, and I did provide information about her 2 year degree.</p>
<p>So what should I do? I’m going to call QuestBridge tomorrow and tell them I screwed up… is this misrepresentation? I honestly did not know until tonight that my dad had a 4 year degree. Do you think they will rescind my finalist status? Is this going to screw up ALL my applications?</p>
<p>God, I can’t believe I was so stupid… if anyone has experience with this kind of thing please help. ):</p>
<p>and my (other stats)</p>
<p>1st in class out of 383. 4.0/4.6875
1st generation but 1 older sister will have her masters by december, other older sister in college, graduating in 2011
dad died at 3
5 passed ap tests - 3 “3’s”, 2 “4’s”
sat - 2050, superscore 2060
few EC’s, like 5, but all very time consuming, i.e. debate captain 4 years, nhs pres, math club pres. active tutor
Rec’s - horrible counselor (i think), 1 good, other AWESOME. he wrote about how offered to help this autistic kid in ap stats so he wouldn’t get dropped.
essays - risk=skydiving, bio=ehhh. somewhat of a sob story, diversity of education
NO SPORTS
NO JOB
intern for a mayoral campaign 2 months this summer
summer program last summer
took every ap class offered at my school except ap spanish & french (because i suck at languages) about 12 AP classes</p>
<p>what schools are you guys ranking?</p>
<p>mine are bowdoin, amherst, upenn, northwestern, vassar, rice, trinity, and wesleyan</p>
<p>i hope i get bowdoin!!! dream school 
one main leverage i have is that i think many didn’t rank it</p>