<p>I don’t want to say too much, lest my school figures out.</p>
<p>frozen203: Most people don’t cancel a binding decision unless for financial reasons, and since you are getting a full ride, you don’t really have a valid reason to reject your match school. Sorry, don’t mean to rain on you, but you should never have ranked a binding school you don’t really want to go to. That’s the whole point of the National College Match contract, to make sure you are aware that the match is binding. You should definitely speak to your guidance counselor though about it. If anything, applying to Princeton now decreases your chance of admissions (not a greater chance), as they will be well aware that you rejected a binding match agreement.</p>
<p>Why isn’t Brown showing up in the “Regular Decision Checklist” area of my locker? All of the others show up for me. (Stanford Penn Columbia UChicago Williams)</p>
<p>EDIT: Nevermind :)</p>
<p>We don’t forward our QB apps to the schools that don’t specify forwarding right? Like Brown and UChicago? I didn’t rank them for the National College Match.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure violating any ED-type agreement can put you on a blacklist, especially with other QB partner schools. It would seriously hinder your chances. I don’t recommend. Honestly, I’m surprised how many people ranked schools they weren’t 90% sure they’d like to attend. That’s a personal choice, but heck, I was laboring over Yale and I was 95% sure I’d attend! I can’t imagine ranking a school less than that.</p>
<p>@immortalix: I forwarded my application to Columbia in case they review it. There’s no harm to over prepare.</p>
<p>Go to your binding match school. Your parents are right. I can’t believe Pton sent out something with that last sentence. </p>
<p>For all of you with binding matches:
It’s perfectly normal to feel “buyer’s remorse.” Now that you’re locked into a school, it is very easy to feel that since they accepted you other schools would have also, and to wonder what your college experience would have been. Go ahead and get those feelings out of your system. If it helps, find someone to talk them over with. If you don’t have anyone, you can send me a private message. But then, remind yourself that your QB match partner picked YOU because they saw something special in you that made them want you as part of their campus community. Having your full-ride is going to be a huge blessing in your life. Your education and future will be so much better because you won’t have the stress of funding, the burden of working long hours or assuming large loans. The reality is most students love their college experience once they get to campus. When you get to your school, find an organization you’re interested in and get involved right away. Actively meet people in your dorm, your classes. I think this is my third year of posting in the QB threads here. I’ve seen kids go through this buyer’s remorse process before. I’ve never once read a post from a kid who is currently in college and is unhappy with their QB partner school. Never.</p>
<p>Hihi you guys. It’s a little late, but I got accepted to Stanford through National Match.</p>
<p>I’ve sort of been stalking this thread every now and then, hehe. </p>
<p>But I’ll stop lurking now, probably. If anyone wants to post the template for the stats, I’ll give mine. :B</p>
<p>I’m going to forward the qb app to schools that don’t request it just in case.</p>
<p>Hey I got a message from QB about the re-application process for finalists.</p>
<p>Dear Sara,
We will forward all materials you submitted with your QuestBridge application, including teacher recommendations and secondary school reports, to the colleges of your choice. However, some colleges require that you resubmit certain materials. Please see the Regular Decision Table for more information about the materials you will need to send: [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).
Kind regards,
The QuestBridge Team</p>
<p>So I guess this means that we don’t need to resend any transcripts or supplements that we sent in with QB in november right?</p>
<p>Also, I got this email from Swarthmore</p>
<p>Dear Sara,
I have your QB application and will submit it for winter early decision and you will receive an automatic fee waiver with that application. All information that was submitted as part of your QB application will now be considered a part of your Swarthmore application which includes transcripts sent in by your counselor. Sometimes QB applicants want to update the information they submitted with their QB applications (essays, awards info, resume, etc.) or submit additional information (artwork, slides, cds, dvds, etc.) and you can do that without submitting another application. You can send the information snail mail or if applicable as an email attachment to me or as a fax to me (fax number is below).</p>
<p>Does this answer your questions, guys?</p>
<p>Did anyone else receive a bunch of fee waivers from the Expanding College Opportunities organization? Their packet looked slightly shady to me, but I looked them up and Harvard and Stanford actually say on their site that they accept their waivers. Turns out they’re this educational research organization working with Stanford I believe, so I guess they’re legit. They gave me 8 waivers, and according to the list of top colleges they sent me, a huuuuge amount (over 150) accept them.</p>
<p>Ditto what 2Blue said!!! It is completely normal to want some validation that other schools would have wanted you as well, but as he said, that will be a fleeting thought once you go to your partner school. </p>
<p>As far as the Princeton letter, there was the exact same wording 2 years ago in an e-mail to my D after she was matched to a binding school. We were definately perplexed, but would have never thought of breaching the binding contract (granted she was going to her #1 school) but I agree with applicannot that you will not only lose your match full-ride, but I am pretty sure you would be black-balled from all other partner schools.</p>
<p>I am also concerned with the match reclpients that seem to have buyers remorse. I hope Applicannot will be here next year to give here very rational words of wisdom to future applicants on committing to binding schools, and the possible finality of rankings.</p>
<p>I have been meaning to post on here for quite some time and have just barely gotten around to it. </p>
<p>To all the matched finalists: Congratulations. You are some very deserving people.</p>
<p>To all of us nonmatched people: Don’t lose hope. This just means that we have to work a little harder. </p>
<p>I am seriously regretting the fact that I only ranked two colleges, Amherst and Rice, the first time around. I feel that if I would have ranked more I wouldn’t be in such a mess now. I’m trying to cover my butt right now so I’m applying to six other Questbridge schools. Is anybody else frustrated by how vague and uninformative the Regular Decision tables on the Questbridge site are? I have spent the last week and a half hunting through each college’s website for addresses to mail my transcripts and financial documents to, not to mention the countless emails asking about extra recommendations, mailing instructions, etc.</p>
<p>hey gripz, i hope everything works out… soon it will all be done!
(not to rub it in ur face or anything) but i ranked 8 schools… disappointed that i didnt get matched with ANY but its fine now because out of the eight (chicago, princeton, stanford, columbia, upenn) five automatically consider me for regular decision which is awesome because they already have all my stuff and for those i dont have to worry…
for my other ones i still have to submit brown and yale’s supplements and for rice they only asked for a decision verification form (whether i am doing early decision or regular decision) and i already did that so now all i have to do are the supplements and they are not due until the end of the month (and im thinking of reusing some of my qb essays)
but i had to resubmit my transcript for brown-stupid because i dont understand why i had to do that shouldnt they already have it in my file?</p>
<p>well to all qb finalists- good luck with everything
ill check back here in a couple days =)</p>
<p>yellowstar: did your counselor do the SSR online via common app? because I don’t think you need to worry about sending the transcript to brown if that’s the case… right?</p>
<p>Seeing how this is my first post on CC; I would like to put forth this “foreword”, if I may call it:</p>
<p>Firstly, congrats to all of those who were matched with colleges in the Questbridge process! Every single one of you definitely deserve it. For the rest of us who were not matched, fear not: your successes, when placed in context of the obstacles you’ve faced, will carry you through the regular admissions process. I have no doubt that each of us will find satisfaction wherever we go. </p>
<p>We all have dream schools; we all believe in that one special “fit” - to some extent, those dreams are true. We all want to maximize our potential; we all want to change the world, but remember: it’s not where you go, it’s who you are. As long as you have the passion to learn and the motivation to live, happiness success will follow, regardless of the college you attend.</p>
<p>I say this in light of recent events. The advent of Stanford SCEA results have crushed the “perfect school dream” of many students at my school. Results were shocking across the board (I attend an extremely competitive high school, all of the early applicants had SAT scores in the 2300s, and perfect SAT II’s, plus tons of extracurriculars). I feel extremely sad for some of my best friends who weren’t accepted, yet most realize that college applications, after giving your best, are somewhat of a lottery.</p>
<p>But don’t lose sight of our true goals here. We don’t have to attend those “dream schools” to stop global warming, combat human trafficking, mitigate world poverty, or, something that strikes a chord within all QBers, support our families for the burdens they’ve shouldered over the past years. We all know better. The most important dreams aren’t the ones about admission to the “perfect” college.</p>
<p>The most important dreams are the ones where we make a difference in the lives of others.</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>To Frozen: I believe there are only two circumstances under which one is justified to break an ED agreement. The first is death. The second is that the financial package is terrible. Since the latter is clearly not the case with Questbridge, I would advise against breaking your agreement. As applicannot stated earlier, you may be blacklisted by other schools for regular admission if you do so. Also, refer to my paragraphs before: college is what you make it, not where you go. </p>
<p>I also believe the withdraw letter is customary for Questbridge finalists who have been matched (where the school uses an autoRD service, such as Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and MIT); can a different Matchee verify this?</p>
<p>It is required to withdraw all other apps once you are matched.</p>
<p>In my daughters case, she called each school that she had an app at, and verbally withdrew from it. If it was a QB school, she asked for the QB adcom. They were all very nice. Most asked for an e-mail to confirm the withdraw, and there was one school, (don’t remember who it was) that asked for a snail mail written intent to withdraw.</p>
<p>oh shoot i totally forgot about the secondary school report!!
and the counselor rec! okay i have to go tell her that…
well my school has a rule that you cannot send out my transcripts or counselor recs or secondary school reports online so my counselor had to opt out of common app and do everything through paper
but i would still send out my transcript and ssr just in case</p>
<p>To clarify GA2012MOM’s comment, it is required to withdraw all other apps if you are matched with a binding-match school. If you are matched to a non-binding school, you may apply Regular Decision to other schools, but cannot apply ED or EA.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, I just have a quick question concerning teacher and counselor recs in general. Do colleges in general accept teacher/counselor recs in any format? What I mean by this is if I were to ask my teachers and counselor to resubmit their QB recommendations to a non-QB school that requires teacher/counselor recs, would the non-QB school accept the QB recs or would they require my teachers and counselor to complete new recommendation forms?</p>