<p>anima sana</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters what your race is w/ your stats
congrats
Very Impressive!!</p>
<p>@pnptruong - I’ve seen your name around on the MIT blogs. 
I’m also applying there but I’m going to have to wait for RD in March before I hear anything. </p>
<p>@cellochick92 - I’ve been wanting to go visit springs for a while. I want to visit CC. With the match now, though, it might not be so necessary. ;)</p>
<p>No facebook here, either. I think I have an account, but I never touch it.</p>
<p>Well, we survived Dec 1st guys…next step…Dec 15. :)</p>
<p>Good job for those who got the match. You definitely deserve it. </p>
<p>For the rest of us, better luck next time. ;)</p>
<p>@silverlego: HA yeah, I dunno if I would consider CC if i already had a guaranteed full ride to stanford… just me tho 
and YAY for no FB! I think we might be in the minority here tho… shh. Better not tell any of the FB addicted ppl 
we might get jumped!</p>
<p>heyy, so i was one of those people who complained, but it was like what applicannot said. it’s just disappointing not to get into your first choice school. and everything seems so surreal. i really AM grateful. and wish the rest of you guys luck, especially because of what someone else said: it does seem lucky that some of us got matched, mainly me, b/c our stats don’t compare. it might be the essays though. </p>
<p>good luck to all for making it this far! :)</p>
<p>I am pages behind on reading all of this, but just wanted to say hi to Sligh Anarchist! </p>
<p>For those of you that are matched with Haverford, contact him with questions. He was a “favorite” of all the parents last year. We knew he would be a match! :)</p>
<p>Hi Sligh, hope your freshman year is all you were hoping for!</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted to Yale[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2390
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II: 800 USH 790 MathII<br>
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): we use a different system; it’s either 4.0 or 3.8. I honestly am not sure.
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A seriously
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Env.Sci. (5) USH (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: 4AP’s; hardest in my school. I know, doesn’t sound impressive, but comparatively speaking, it is.
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Toshiba Contest, National Merit Semifinalist, QB College Prep Scholarship
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): History Club (Pres), NHS (Chair), Mock Trial (lawyer), did some debate, CSC (leader) -yes, there are real positions in my school
[ *] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: summer reading program at local library and tutoring at inner-city schools and spent 7 days providing free summer camp for children in the South
[ *] Summer Activities: Harvard SSP and above
[ *] Essays: 1 average 1 i really liked but no one else except one of my friends did 1 i though was mediocre but my friends thought it was perfect (but they are my friends)
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: have no idea
[ *] Counselor Rec: great, I believe
[ *] Additional Rec:n/a
[ *] Interview: he said he’d give me a good review (I didnt ask) and it lasted about an hour
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: hmm
[ *] Intended Major: polisci
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): [A
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: private
[ *] Ethnicity: asian
[ *] Gender:F
[ *] Income Bracket: 20k
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): fgc, i don’t believe asians are URM ??
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: I personally enjoyed my essays, SAT helped
[ *] Weaknesses: i don’t know but i dont think teach recs were great, am not involved in sports, people may think I’m not having fun maybe?? I don’t get home from school until 6 or 7 bc i ride the school bus and my school is rather far away. so when interviewers ask me, so what do you do for fun? I rarely have a great answer. but i like conversations, and I like people, and I think I convey that well in my essays
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]
Thank you a billion times to QB. It still hasn’t fully hit me. I feel so happy and so lucky. And really, a lot of it does come down to chance. Thank you thank you thank you. I was speechless. Still am.<br>
and this isnt everything, but I have lots of hw waiting for me; ill do a more thorough job next time.
g’night</p>
<p>sorry guys, I guess I messed up the codes.</p>
<p>^^Hit edit at the bottom of the post and delete all the spaces between the brackets. That should fix it.</p>
<p>Exciting day. I left my homework until 11pm. Now I’m suffering the consequences.</p>
<p>hoping someone can answer my earlier question:</p>
<p>if we want to apply to stanford and princeton again through RD, can we make changes to our application/essays? (improve them?) I hope it’s not all set in stone. o_o could someone let me know whether we can add/improve/change…?</p>
<p>Thank you! and good night everyone~</p>
<p>For anyone forwarding QB app, you cannot change anything on it. If you are sending the common app as well, no clue. sorry. what i wanted to tell you guys about, if you don’t already know, is to get an account with **************</p>
<p>they have this program you can use where you submit your essays and others rate them and give comments. you give comments too. i found it to be quite effective, if anyone needs help. ignore the OVERLY rude comments. they don’t occur too often. the people on that site are very sweet, especially the founders, James and Brent. good luck again.</p>
<p>I was selected to be a Questbridge finalist but I didn’t rank any schools for the Match Process because I didn’t like any of the non-binding schools and the binding aspect of the other schools didn’t appeal to me. I understand Questbridge also “forwards” your application to other colleges if you want them to and some colleges even prefer the Questbridge one over their own app/Common App; and I assume they would retrieve the recommendations my teachers wrote for Questbridge.</p>
<p>The thing is, my high school limits the number of recommendations each teacher can send to just 3, so instead of choosing teachers that know me really well, I just choose some teachers that didn’t know me outside of the class room to do the Questbridge rec. Ya, it was really dumb of me because if I got teachers that knew me well, I would have been able to use that one recommendation and send it to more than 3 colleges through Questbridge.</p>
<p>And the teachers that know me well have already sent their recs to the colleges =/</p>
<p>So my question is, is Questbridge application forwarding really worth it in my case? I’m considering forwarding it to some top LACs.</p>
<p>Found out I wasn’t matched the same day the bank foreclosed on our house. Talk about heavy… D:</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got matched though.
I’m sure you guys all really deserve it!</p>
<p>oh gawd no wonder i didnt get matched. u guys stats are amazing.</p>
<p>@mia12
So we don’t have to resend or redo our common app for RD if we already sent it in rank?
what about yale and upenn. I know we have to send in the Common app and supplements, but what about the extra paper work like financial and rec stuff?</p>
<p>@omegan
I’m sorry to hear that. our house was foreclosed last year. i really needed this match but i’m sure we’ll all make it in RD!</p>
<p>im not sure. im fowarding mine though. I think it’d be worth it because they’d really really know that you’re a QB finalist. Plus additional application stuff about you wouldn’t hurt right?</p>
<p>I still got so many questions about the RD process! gah!</p>
<p>^ I mean, I doubt colleges will be interested in reading 4 recommendations. I have a feeling the non-Questbridge are really good; like I said, these teachers know me extremely well.</p>
<p>There are other ways of letting them know we’re finalists, right?</p>
<p>I should call each individual college to check if they have all my stuff for RD right?</p>
<p>It’s free. That’s what’s so appealing to me.</p>
<p>^ Ya, but I assume you can request a Fee Waiver using the “Other” option on the Common App and tell them you’re a Questbridge Finalist.</p>
<p>@ mods, I prefer my thread being separate from the Questbridge thread. Mine wasn’t a general question about Questbridge app forwarding, it was unique to my situation (better recs…). Do you mind reverting it back as a standalone thread?</p>