<p>I believe that I could have gotten in with my own merit, i just really didn’t think of applying to a majority of schools until I was introduced to them through Questbridge. Some of these schools I never heard about before( some of the LACs), but I am glad that I was given the opportunity to learn more information about them. Without Questbridge I probably only applied to a few reach schools, and I am glad that I didn’t limit myself.</p>
<p>if you apply to QB schools via regular decision and get in you will LIKELY get a good financial aid package but it is NOT the same as the QB match scholarship - it will include things like Pell Grants, work-study, state grants and possibly student contribution or family contribution. However you are considered a QB scholar which means that you MAY be entitled to some of QB add-ons such as summer scholarships and the mentoring program and attendance at QB programs.</p>
<p>@hathormom: How do you know? I’m not trying to discredit you or anything but is this personal experience or was it mentioned somewhere else?</p>
<p>It’s on the website. Look under “Quest Scholars.”</p>
<p>Thanks! :D.</p>
<p>I was admitted to MIT RD through QB and my financial package is almost exactly the same as the match package.</p>
<p>@Brassrat: Same here! Except for Wesleyan. It’s like no loans and a meager student contribution. Not a bad deal lol. So keep your hopes up if you’re QB and happen to fall in the last/ second to last income brackets of QB kids!</p>
<p>Congrats to all the QB applicants who got into the schools of their choice!!!</p>
<p>Anyone else here waiting for more decisions Thursday @ 5:00pm? Wondering if anyone is sharing my anxiety haha.</p>
<p>Emory gave me horrible financial aid and I am a QB finalist admitted through RD. My EFC is a big fat 0 and our family income is less than 10k. However, we have to pay 14k a year out of pocket for Emory and that amount does not include loans and work study. I find this outrageous.</p>
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<p>That is called an accept/deny package. It means they accepted you, but offered you a financial aid package that would effectively deny you. I can’t speak for Emory, but many schools do this to play into the “dream school” phemonenon. If that school is the “dream school” for that student, they want those students to come and take out loans (pay the school) to attend.</p>
<p>@applicannot: Well they chose the wrong person to give that package to, LOL. I am a QB applicant and my EFC is 0 so how do they expect me to pay that much.</p>
<p>After the massacre of Duke admissions (admissions were down about 5%), I am expecting no more acceptances after Amherst’s. Amherst is great and all but what if the financial aid doesn’t come through? I need Amherst otherwise I am stuck going to some state school I don’t like. Is any other QB person in this situation? I feel like everyone on here except me is so awesome and can get in anywhere.</p>
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<p>That’s the point. You can’t pay it, so they have effectively rejected you. Don’t be the person who still takes out oodles of loans to go there.</p>
<p>I have been accepted to UChicago and Northwestern through Quest Bridge and Duke so far.
All financial packages are almost full-ride.</p>
<p>@spiritualwitch: I’m pretty sure Amherst gives a no-loans package to all students below a certain income with “typical assets.” There may be work-study but the hours are limited and the pay is usually pretty high. Some people who get “bad” financial aid may have unusual circumstances like a lot of assets.</p>
<p>re: How I know about QB finalists and the financial bennies…</p>
<p>its on the QB site…its not super specific but it does say that - and I believe it also says that you are considered a ‘Questbridge Scholar’ if you get in RD to a QB school. That may also be a plus for grad school…</p>
<p>Other than through work study, how else do you guys plan on paying your student contribution? --Not that it’s that huge compared to the awesome financial aid that we’re all receiving, thanks to QB-partner colleges :D! Are there any safe scholarship applications still available?</p>
<p>QB got me an excellent FA package at Notre Dame and helped me to get the amazing johnson at W & L…i got great aid so far, although primarily at schools that are desperately seeking my demographic; largely Caucasian, wealthy schools like ND and W&L need poor minorities like me, so i guess it ultimately boils down to what the schools are looking for.</p>
<p>Is student contribution separate from work study? And what if you don’t do work study in your first quarter/semester? Does that just go to family/student contribution?</p>
<p>I wish the best of luck to everyone tomorrow! QuestBridge saw something special in us—the Ivies will, too.
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