<p>@flyingllama</p>
<p>I am too submitting documents online (except my financial documents, I mailed them. I don’t think I needed to write my Common App ID on those)</p>
<p>I think writing Common App ID only applies to people who are sending everything (Actual Common App) by mail.</p>
<p>natim, the princeton rep who emailed me said they will ‘consider the QB app’. i take it to mean that if your commonapp+supplement isn’t good enough, they’ll glance at QB app to get more info. if your commonapp+supplement is sufficient to get you in (;)), then no QB app. necessary.</p>
<p>Actually, at the last minute, I got inspired to do something completely different for my princeton supp essay. It’ll take me more time, but I’ll be happier with the product.</p>
<p>At this point, I say do what you want, in terms of reusing essays. We don’t have a straight answer, which means neither is totally wrong. Just make sure it’s good :D</p>
<p>Is the deadline November 2nd 11:59 pm or November 1st 11:59 pm?</p>
<p>ugh what on EARTH is WRONG with CSS?! I only have like 5 more answers to complete but I can’t go any further after I’ve logged onto CB D: dear me …</p>
<p>the CSS was like that yesterday…all I did was wait until about 11pm pacific time and it was fine…you still have time to do it on monday if you can’t get it today</p>
<p>i am me: I’m pretty sure it’s the first one.</p>
<p>So yeah Stanford is asking us to to all kinds of things. I’m going to put my Common App ID on the financial things just in case. This is how it’s working for me if anyone is ranking the same schools:</p>
<p>STANFORD: Write Questbridge, full name, and common app ID on financial stuff. (My transcript is already sealed so that doesn’t apply. My Common App is done electronically so that doesn’t apply either.)</p>
<p>YALE: Write Questbridge, full name, and Yale ID on included financial papers. (My transcript is already sealed so that doesn’t apply. My Common App is done electronically so that doesn’t apply either.)</p>
<p>PENN: Include PFAS. Write “Attn: QuestBridge Finalist Committee” on the envelope of anything being mailed.</p>
<p>COLUMBIA: Include Columbia Financial questionnaire. Write “ATTN: QuestBridge” on the envelope of anything being mailed.</p>
<p>Ok so, did I forget anything? BTW, what’s with the ATTN? Does it apply for faxes? Why don’t Yale/Stanford ask us to write that?</p>
<p>It’s interesting how similar Yale/Stanford are with the mailing requirements, and likewise for Columbia/Penn.</p>
<p>And it just so happens that I’m going on a mandatory class trip from 5am - 9 pm tomorrow … maybe I’ll wake up super early and try to get those last 5 blanks I left on the CSS!</p>
<p>Is the deadline November 2nd 11:59 pm or November 1st 11:59 pm? </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s nov 2nd 11:59…I’m glad!</p>
<p>caltennis: me too! Especially since pfas is being an idiot!</p>
<p>@flyingllama
for yale, you dont have to submit anything from the common app, do you?</p>
<p>@avocados: you do not need to submit anything from common app for Yale.</p>
<p>Forgive my noobness, but who here is going to submit their common apps on Nov 2? I know what it says on the QB site, but there seems to be some confusion about the actual due date.</p>
<p>Just to put in my own 2 cents to rant: I think I made a mistake writing one of my essays for QB…I wrote about diversity instead of intellectual engagement so it sounds as if I’m writing about the same thing for both QB Essay #1 and Bio, except QB Essay #1 is more specific. THus, I feel like I wasted an additional space. It wasn’t until I wrote the Stanford intellectual essay that I’m like “stupid me. I wish I wrote this for QB…” AHH! </p>
<p>For my common app for Princeton and Stanford, I ended up not using any of my QB essays except for the personal biography one which I used under common app PERSONAL ESSAY. I felt as if my “extracurricular short answer” on common app is way similar to my QB Essay #2 (achievement), so under Additional Information, I just plugged in my resume. I hope that’s okay. Alot of my friends are doing it, but I was reading some posts about how you guys are posting additional essays under “additional information”…? Anyway, on my Princeton supplement, I had a creative streak that day so I wrote a whole new essay that ended up being the best essay I have ever written, but it’s way unconventional, so I’m slightly worried. </p>
<p>AH! <em>done ranting</em></p>
<p>Good luck guys!</p>
<p>i faxed Yale and MIT my common app EC list …cause my QB EC list was horribly inaccurate, i under/overstimated hours for activites, ranked them stupidly, gave bad explanations…lol</p>
<p>Princeton:
commonapp - QB bio
additional info - EC explanation, family circumstances (imp*. they don’t look at QB app!)
summer experience - QB intellectual concept (super abridged), summer experience
supplement essay - QB significant experience (but under prompt 1: sign. person…i twitched the essay a bit)</p>
<p>yay me! :)</p>
<p>Stanford:
common app - QB bio
additional info - same as Princeton
intellectual - QB intellectual concept
roomie - really weird/funny, lol
why stanford - another significant experience (lol, i managed to squeeze it in)+ why stanford</p>
<p>Yale & MIT: lolwut! my QB app will not get me into these 2. the essays are very unpolished…meh…</p>
<p>maybe it’s because I already submitted everything 4 days ago, but I’m seriously having the “my application is inferior and I fail in life and essays” mode. Reading chance me threads didn’t help. Anyone else having the same problem? Or is after finally submitting everything boosting everybody’s hopes up? :)</p>
<p>AH! My essays are boring! And about cliche stuff…darrnnn…At least it’s well written…</p>
<p>CSS Profile hasn’t been working for the last two days when I tried to access it… I guess I’ll just wait until after midnight to give it another try. UGHH this whole QuestBridge application process is killing me. I decided at the last minute that I will re-write my entire Common App essay! </p>
<p>BTW Is it true that once we have submitted our common apps, we will not be able to fix any parts of it for RD…??? I am now worried, as my essays are definitely not the best I have written…</p>
<p>crystal91. i feel the same way. i didn’t attach a resume because i wanted the colleges to focus on 2-3 of my ECs (main ones)…but looking at my EC list…i feel inferior…i’m not in 5 honor societies or captain of 2 sports teams…etc… :(</p>
<p>i feel like i MUST’VE messed up SOMETHING…either something didn’t get submitted properly, or some embarassing typo somewhere…i am afraid to look at my submitted materials…ugh… :(</p>
<p>@jshim92
don’t worry, you can change it later! relax!</p>