<p>I’M A FINALIST OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS!!! THANK YOU GOD!! ;_________________;</p>
<p>Btw, did any of you notice the “Revised National College Match Rankings (due Nov.3)” link show up on the required and optional list even waaay before the results? I saw it hours ago and got my hopes a little high, but wasn’t sure if it’s on everyone’s list???</p>
<p>BUT OMG SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW. Will post stats later~</p>
<p>I didn’t get finalist but Congrats to all those who did!</p>
<p>(I’m quite disappointed because I thought I would be a shoe-in, 3.98 GPA, 2250 SAT, 800 for both my SAT2s, 7 AP’s all 5’s and “perfect” essays according to my teachers/friends/guidance counselors. 30k income)</p>
<p>I GOT IN!!! OH MY GOD. THANK YOU LORD SO MUCH!! AHHHHH!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS.</p>
<p>Sorry for the caps lock, I’m just too excited. But there is a long way to go. November 1st is basically tomorrow!! </p>
<p>Congrats to those that got finalist and to those of you who didn’t I’m really sorry! But please believe me when I say you will all get into amazing colleges!</p>
<p>finalist here! I was seriously SO discouraged because I am not as academically strong as most people are on here! However, I was able to strengthen other areas which I think made up for it 
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<p>Notified I was finalist! 3.95 GPA, 7 AP 4-5 scores, 33 ACT, 730 Subject Tests, Pretty Good essays, Probably a very bad recommendations, 40k income.</p>
<p>I was totally not expecting to be a finalist. I had barely known my counselor and my teachers seemed a little pissed off when I asked them for recommendations. As a reminder, not one single part of the application defines you! You can still get into a top tier college with one lousy test score. In my case, my essays probably pulled me up the edge.</p>
<p>Finalist. THANK YOU GOD!</p>
<p>On the finalist update page it says “Please note that you cannot add any new schools to your rankings.” Does anyone know if we are allowed to change the order to remove school permanently from our rankings?</p>
<p>IM A FINALIST!!! I JUST CHECKED AND CONGRATS TO ALL WHO ARE FINALISTS AND ALL WHO AREN’T DON’T BE DISCOURAGED KEEP TRYING. I can’t post all my stats but lets just say my SAT is 1880 which isn’t nearly as impressive as some of you guys! Ughhhh I was volunteering so I just found out and im shaking!!</p>
<p>Finalist. 33 ACT/10 essay. 3.8 GPA. AP scholar with distinction. 6 AP’s completed, 4 more senior year (currently). Very rigorous schedule last 3 years, study 3-4 languages each year, 20K income.
CONGRATULATIONS… to everyone who completed the QB application. Although we have work ahead of us, we have also put major effort in already. Finalists and non-finalists will benefit from the head start QB gave us! Good luck in the next week and we’ll meet again on November 1st! ^.^</p>
<p>Finalist- 32 ACT/10 Essay. 4.0 UW, 4.688 W, 6 AP exams taken but curriculum is IB: (HL Math, HL History, HL English, HL Spanish and HL Economics) <–pretty rigorous course load:). Income: <35,000. </p>
<p>So excited!! Congrats to everyone who is a finalist. To those who weren’t: YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING (y’all don’t need me to tell you that lol) and don’t worry, there’s always QB RD! We will all end up in the schools that fit us the best, so don’t stress too much!</p>
<p>I’m a finalist! </p>
<p>I’m a finalist. 32 ACT, 38K income but 9K worth of surgery costs this year, 3.99 GPA weighted, 3.72 unweighted, 2 APs with a score of 4, currently taking 5 APs and 1 community college class, most non-APs are honors, volunteer tutor, 6 extracurriculars with 5 leadership positions, VERY competitive school system</p>
<p>Finalist
Can someone post or pm me a link to Questies 2014-2015 Facebook page. Can’t seem to find it, but I’ve seen it before.</p>
<p>Finalist! 3.95 GPA, 32 ACT/10 essay (have gotten an 11 before), 2 AP’s completed, 4 more this year. Many honors. Rigorous boarding school. Lots of extracurriculars, strong leadership all around. Amazing recs. Income >$55,000. First Gen, African American/Cherokee Indian/Caucasian, female. </p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone that matched! For those that didn’t its not the end of the road, simply a new path! Good luck to everyone. There’s so much to do in the next 10 days. </p>
<p>Ranking: Brown, Yale.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>•SAT I: CR 590 Math 680 Writing 540 Total 1830</p>
<p>•ACT: Composite 27 English 27 Math 27 Reading 28 Science 25 Writing 8</p>
<p>•SAT II: Just took Biology M, Math I and Math II this September - no scores</p>
<p>•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): UW 3.489 W 4.222</p>
<p>•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 42/765 (5.49%)</p>
<p>•AP Scores: (IB curriculum)</p>
<p>•IB Scores: IB Chemistry SL (4) (The other 5 exams are this year)</p>
<p>•Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, IB Math HL, IB Japanese SL, IB Biology HL, IB History of the Americas HL, IB English HL, Advanced Clinical Rotations, UIL Speech and Debate</p>
<p>•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ISWEEEP Gold Medalist, ISEF Finalist, National Achievement Outstanding Participant, Other science fair achievements (district and state awards), Multiple UIL and YMCA YAG honors and awards</p>
<p>•Extracurricular Activities (leadership positions in parenthesis): (VP of Future Medical Professions/HOSA), (VP of StuCo community outreach), NHS, JWAC, Mu Alpha Theta, UIL LD Debate and Extemp speaking, (YMCA Youth and Government), (Science Olympiad)</p>
<p>•Job/Work Experience: Tutor at Kumon for 2 years</p>
<p>•Volunteer/Community service: Big Brothers Big Sisters, 6Stones, Catholic Charities</p>
<p>•Summer Activities: Texas Governor’s Science and Technology Champions Academy, Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership program participant in 10th grade (now I volunteer every summer), Community college classes (Psychology, Philosophy, and Comp Sci)</p>
<p>•Essays (rating 1-10, details):
My short answers were very well thought out, personable, completely displayed me as a person and displayed my quirky personality with little puns. Rate: 9
My biography was very personal and talked about how my mother has chronic depression and stayed in Nigeria. My father is now the only one to take care of me and my brother and its hard with his low salary (<$30,000). It discussed the loss of my two oldest siblings when I was in Nigeria as well as the loss of my littlest brother here in America. Rate: 8
This last essay was more weak, I chose to write on diversity and how I’ve been impacted and then proceeded to talk about the little parables my father enjoys telling me. He was the village storyteller back in Nigeria so I always enjoy listening to them. Rate: 6</p>
<p>•Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9
•Teacher Rec #1: My favorite anatomy and physiology teacher wrote this, he was also my science fair mentor when I was in the 9th and 10th grade as well as the Science Olympiad coordinator. We have a very close relationship.</p>
<p>•Teacher Rec #2: My IB HOA Teacher during junior year, we had a good relationship and was always one of his most appreciated students.</p>
<p>•Counselor Rec: My International Baccalaureate Program Coordinator tailored mine to fit me on a more personal level</p>
<p>•State (if domestic applicant): Texas</p>
<p>•School Type: Public school (HUGE) </p>
<p>•Ethnicity:African (black)</p>
<p>•Gender: Female</p>
<p>•Income Bracket: 25,000 to 29,000</p>
<p>•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): black female very interested in the STEM field, First Generation College and America, URM</p>
<p>•Strengths: My ECs are very specific to what I enjoy and I have satyed very commited throughout the years. I did a good job of displaying me as a person in everything I wrote. Also due to the IB CAS requirement my volunteer hours are very developed and activities. My summers are also spent productively</p>
<p>•Weaknesses: My test scores are on the low end, I wish I had started testing sooner so I could have had more developed scores to submit to QB. My grades and GPA were also not the highest despite my class rank percentage.</p>
<p>•Why you think you were rejected: My test scores are extremely low in comparison to a a lot of people and my writing comes across as cheesy and cliche to certain people. I also realize that my GPA is not the highest out there and possible hurt me. I also lack AP credit and my one IB score thus far, is mediocre.</p>
<p>Colleges ranked: In order: Yale, Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, Notre Dame, UChicago, University of Southern California, and Brown</p>
<p>General Comments: I was, at first, extremely saddened to not have become a QB finalist. I had devoted, from August to now, approximately 5 hours a week specifically to QuestBridge. I spent that time learning more about QB, applying for QB, watching every single video that QB has ever made, I even set up a QB support group at my school to educate the low income students that didn’t know about or understand QB. Now as I sit here, I the QB enthusiast, am not a finalist, and I’m watching those that I practically forced to apply become Finalists. With this thought process, of course I was upset. But now I am overjoyed that I have given so many students the chance to have college payed for! After spending the past thirty minutes typing up my stats, I realize that I don’t need to worry about getting into college and I have always known that there is money out there for students like us. Now I’m glad other students know this fact too. I mean… tomorrow will be a little awkward telling everyone that I, who had my whole life planned around being a QB finalist, am in fact not, but in the past 6 hours I’ve realized that this is one of those weird tests life gives us to determine if we have what it takes to get where we want to be… and I’ve finally determined that I do. So please don’t pity me! And to those who also did not become a finalist… Don’t get mad… get glad! Make QB regret not accepting you by getting into an amazing school all on your own! Or better yet make good use of their regular decision for non-finalists.The fact that we realized QB was a good step in the right direction already says tons about our intelligence, so we just need to keep going in that direction (although now we do have to take a detour). So stay positive and good luck to everyone, whether a finalist or not! In the end, we will all be just fine!</p>
<p>Hey guys, I’m a QB finalist.</p>
<p>I recently took the Oct SAT, and the results are available on the 28th. I took the SAT before but I think I did better on this one. Should I report my scores now or wait until score come?</p>
<p>Also, we have to mail official transcripts to each school right??</p>
<p>I have the same question as aznguy97</p>
<p>Amazingly, I was chosen as a finalist.
But Alas- I did not rank colleges 
I tried to the last day, but it said I needed a signature from my counselor (On Columbus Day?!?!?!)
So, I opted out.
Welp, at least I can EA to some nice state schools.</p>
<p>Decision: Finalist</p>
<p>Objective: •SAT I (breakdown): CR 610 M 590 W 540</p>
<p>•ACT: N/a</p>
<p>•SAT II: Biology M - 690 , Math II - 570 US History - 700</p>
<p>•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0</p>
<p>•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1</p>
<p>•AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Biology (4), US History (4), English Lang (4)</p>
<p>•IB (place score in parenthesis):</p>
<p>•Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics 1, AP Govt, Virtual Business, AP Chemistry, AP English Literature, and AP French Language</p>
<p>•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None</p>
<p>Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Youth Environmental Justice (Youth Organizer), Men’s Tennis (Doubles Varsity) , FIRST Robotics (Lead Programmer), Global Environmental Science Academy (President), Best Buddies </p>
<p>•Job/Work Experience: Engineering Company (Summer)</p>
<p>•Volunteer/Community service: Youth Environmental Justice (See above)</p>
<p>•Summer Activities: COSMOS @ UCD (10th grade), Summer Internship (11th grade)</p>
<p>•Essays (rating 1-10, details):</p>
<p>•Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
•Teacher Rec #1: 9? Keeps calling me fabulous. Sort of knows me </p>
<p>•Teacher Rec #2: 8? Great.</p>
<p>•Counselor Rec: 9? Only a few wants to go to college in my school so my counselor loves me.</p>
<p>•Additional Rec:</p>
<p>Other
•State (if domestic applicant): CA</p>
<p>•Country (if international applicant):</p>
<p>•School Type: Public</p>
<p>•Ethnicity: Asian (Filipino)</p>
<p>•Gender: M</p>
<p>•Income Bracket: $ 35 K</p>
<p>•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): </p>
<p>Reflection
•Strengths: Rec Letters, Essay (content) </p>
<p>•Weaknesses: Test Scores (SAT)</p>
<p>•Why you think you were selected/rejected: A combination of decent grades plus my experience living in a rural province in the midst of an outbreak.</p>
<p>Colleges ranked: Yale, MIT, Brown, Williams, Amherst, and more</p>
<p>General Comments: Didn’t expect to be a finalist so I filled the ranking list. Honestly, I have no idea why certain people became finalist and others not. If I didn’t become a finalist, I would want someone to tell me that as long as you can honestly say that you did your best with the application (i.e sleepless nights, countless revisions, getting constant feedbacks, etc) then don’t feel bad. If you maintain the same dedication throughout the college application process then you should be fine Congratulations to the QB Finalists!! </p>