<p>@get to college</p>
<p>could you send me that formula as well.</p>
<p>@ natim1
I think teacher recs and transcripts have to be sent separately.</p>
<p>did anyone get their Yale ID yet?</p>
<p>@Avocadoes: I haven’t yet! grrr…i hope they send it out soon…</p>
<p>For non-finalists: Some schools still allow you to send in your QB app with a waived fee.<br>
[QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Regular Decision Table](<a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge)</p>
<p>Look at the “non-finalist” bar of that chart. All hope is not lost!!</p>
<p>@avocados: I haven’t gotten my Yale ID yet but Yale did send me an email congratulating me on my finalist status and they said in the email that we would get our Yale ID’s in a few days. I somehow doubt that they will send out our ID’s on Sunday though.</p>
<p>Stats</p>
<p>SAT I: 2050
SAT II: 2 700+ tests
GPA: 3.5/4.0
EC: President of Leadership Club, Co-pres of the Gay/ Staight alliance, 1000< hrs of community service, 2 jobs, Philosophy/ Political book clubs, Outdoors club
Honors: Just a bunch of depatamental awards and AP scholar with distinction
Recs: Counselor – excellent; teacher 1 – excellent; teacher 2 – beyond epic
500 word Essays: Pretty sure both were frkn amazing (i think my essays made up for my low SAT score)
Autobiography: awesome as well…
Income: Single parent with 3 kids (one in college), live in an area with high cost of living, 25K (and that was a good year)
Hooks?: Dominican, 1st generation</p>
<p>oh and i forgot an EC… part of the art/ lit staff of our school mag for 4 years. It’s gotten the Golden Scholactic Press Association Award for 2 yrs in a row with all honors. </p>
<p>Seriously my essays and ECs totally saved me…</p>
<p>Wow Ju_liaa, your credentials sound amazing 
I wish I was that confident about my teacher recs…but since I didn’t see them, I can’t say for sure…</p>
<p>@Crystal91: Well the thing i love about my school most are my teachers. My biggest fear is that i’ll go to college (even if it’s like…Yale) and my teachers wont be as great as the ones i have now XD</p>
<p>Of course it’s stupid though…there are great teachers everywhere.</p>
<p>I think the strengths in my case are my extracurriculars, leadership, and recognition, haha. I’m big on debate and government in my school, but I’ve received state recognition for music, art, and writing. And then here I come in not wanting to major in political science, no, but in chemistry…hope they won’t be like “wha” </p>
<p>Make up my low SAT scores too and possibly mediocre recs? ><</p>
<p>woah Ju<em>liaa. more than 1000 hours of community service o</em>o</p>
<p>i think you’re in where ever you apply. but please, don’t take Princeton away from me? :(</p>
<p>P.S. Ju_liaa, for the QB app, they only allowed us to list 5 ECs. how did you manage to include all that? in the additional info.?</p>
<p>Yep. Although I haven’t been nationally recognized, I basically started every club in my school. My recs were probably awesome, and my counselor like would die for me so I think all rec’s were amazing. My bio made my English teacher cry and the other two essays were good and showed different sides of me, the scientific and the political activist. I think it all made up for my crappy SAT I.</p>
<p>10 char…</p>
<p>What i did was i wrote Leadership Pres, Gay/S Alliance co pres, Zephyr mag, Outdoors club, and then i combined Philo/ Pol. Book clubs into one and said that i did them 2 hrs a week.
So that makes 5…</p>
<p>And then in the additional info section i wrote about 1000< hours and teaching myself to write portuguese and to speak french</p>
<p>Had to use all that space VERY efficiently… lol</p>
<p>But i still have no hope for the QB schools…they’re gonna laugh at my 3.5 GPA T_T</p>
<p>I have over 1500 volunteer hours and over 3500 hours on the clock at work. Hoping that helps me!</p>
<p>omg. for me in my 5 slots. i wrote about 1)volunteering, 2)poetry/litmag, 3)babysitting, 4)philosophy, 5)research participant…</p>
<p>i didn’t want to move any of these into additional info. though…because the Additional Info. is like the extra, after-thought info…and they look at the EC list first… </p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>@ applicannot: 10char…</p>
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<p>Thanks for the tip. The plan here turns to doing nonbinding early action applications to various colleges of interest. Congratulations to you and to the other QB finalists.</p>
<p>So I gues November SAT II won’t count? Are we still able to send them those scores?</p>