<p>Anyone else get an email from Yale about RD?</p>
<p>Undine: I did.</p>
<p>@pnptruong</p>
<p>Sorry but what doe EFC stand for? My househould income is less than $35,000 (4 people). So what’s my chance?</p>
<p>I did too. I ranked Yale but I’m not applying to them RD.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that if you’re 0 EFC, and you weren’t matched, then you won’t have much more luck in RD for the top QB schools.</p>
<p>flyingllama, I don’t really think that’s true. But the application is free and already mostly finished, so for those who want to it wouldn’t be difficult to apply.</p>
<p>For Rice, do you think they sent the email out to random finalists or people they might be interested in?</p>
<p>haha, there’re two possible explanations of why a 0 EFC student may not get matched.</p>
<p>Negative explanation:</p>
<p>He’s not good enough for the college to pay an extra 3000k, and not good enough for the college, either.
Positive explanation:
This is a decent application who will 99% get in the college if he applies RD.
He will get 100% grant anyway (when applying RD) because his EFC is 0. So the college just wants to focus its resources to catch the ultracompetent non-zero EFC and URM finalists .</p>
<p>I like the positive explanation because it sounds more pessimistic to me. :P</p>
<p>@Hassa: EFC is expected family contribution</p>
<p>I got the Rice letter, too. It’s weird that they did not send it to the email address I registered with QB.</p>
<p>My son’s experience is the opposite of flyinllama’s statement. Last year he was an unmatched finalist. He applied to several QB schools and is attending Rice this year. They estimated our EFC at $5000, which was $1500 higher than the FAFSA EFC. The FA package didn’t include any loans, all grants. We decided to use the Perkins loan for $3500. They applied local scholarships to what was left of the tuition. I know that’s not what the FA page says will happen with local scholarships, but that’s what they did. In the end, we’re paying Rice around $1000 for tuition, room/board and all school fees. Of course books, travel and misc are on our own.</p>
<p>Use that QB application to its fullest potential! Be sure to list it as an National honor/award on any non-QB school you’re applying to.</p>
<p>He received several emails for QB schools encouraging him to apply RD. And you all will too! You’re worthy applicants.</p>
<p>sooo. who’s going to put QB National college match recipient instead of finalist on their common app for other schools to see? (if you were matched)</p>
<p>I got the same message from Rice(didn’t rank them) but I also got something very similar from Williams, telling me it isn’t too late for me to apply Early Decision. I also didn’t even rank Williams so…</p>
<p>do the matched schools tell our guidance counselors?</p>
<p>They give your recommenders and counselors awards. 
And you get a free t-shirt.</p>
<p>Also, natim would colleges want to know that you’ve already been matched and have a set school? Maybe I’m paranoid</p>
<p>seriously? they give them awards? when?</p>
<p>well, its not a set school…i mean, im not DEFINITELY going to princeton</p>
<p>The colleges, if they are QB partners, already know you are Matched. I didn’t rank or tell Rice anything, but they congratulated me on my acceptance to Stanford.</p>
<p>applicannot:</p>
<p>Same. Yale congratulated me on my acceptance to Princeton, while encouraging me to apply RD to Yale… I’d like to think this means they’re interested in me (I ranked them, maybe they chose me?) but I’m hesitant to get my hopes up on having a choice between Princeton and Yale… This situation already feels too good to be true. I keep pinching myself.</p>
<p>Yeah really Natim. It says, your name, your person’s name, and the school. And it should be sending in a couple weeks I assume.</p>
<p>eugh. I dont want my guidance counselor to get an award. he SUCKS. seriously, when i first told him about applying to QB, he was like, well, you know that there are VERY strict requirements…like financial requirements…do you think you qualify? I was like, yes…he was like “OH i seeee…”</p>