<p>Here is an article that I found on not getting matched that I thought was extremely encouraging. </p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p><a href=“http://thebridgeblog.org/2014/08/18/not-matched-me-neither/”>thebridgeblog.org;
<p>I’m assuming that only finalists with extremely high stats and a 0 efc will be matched. I still have a small glimmer of hope but doubt it will happen for me 
I’m prepared for RD and I hope that will work out for me!</p>
<p>Although I have a 0 efc I’ve had no requests for interviews and that’s probably because my stats are at the bottom of the 50% match recipients of 2013…</p>
<p>I do have a question about the whole 0 EFC thing that I find confusing. </p>
<p>For Columbia in particular, they state that “parents with calculated incomes below $60,000 and typical assets will no longer be expected to contribute any of their income or assets to tuition, room, board, and mandatory fees”.</p>
<p>So, does that mean that any student’s family with an income, after everything is calculated, that falls under $60,000 has 0 EFC? </p>
<p>On the questbridge website it says that 36% of applicants became finalists this year. And there are only 4100 compared to 4700 last year. Seems like that means less will be matched…maybe more though…who knows</p>
<p>But less students applied this year so I guess it’ll all be relative to the amount of finalists. Plus it’s up to the colleges and I don’t believe there’s a quota…</p>
<p>How do you know if your EFC is 0? Does it say on the CSS profile or is it relative to every college? </p>
<p>Well I got a fee waiver for the css profile, and with what my parents make, I know there’s no way they can contribute. I also used the efc calculator!</p>
<p>@ninadaisy, there are 2 ways to calculate EFC - for the federal government and for individual colleges. The FAFSA will tell you whether you qualify for federal aid such as Pell grants. And then each college has their own net price calculator (NPC) that you can run to find out your estimated FA and your EFC at that college. Many of them can be run through your college board account so once you’ve entered all the income and asset numbers it saves them and it’s really easy/fast to run other colleges. You should definitely be running the NPCs for all your colleges. </p>
<p>@bananami, yes that’s what that means, just pay attention to the ‘typical asset’ clause…so you couldn’t be a low income high asset family and necessarily expect the 0EFC free ride… </p>
<p>@LyricalLacuna, do you know what necessarily counts as typical assets? Or is it dependent upon the school?</p>
<p>yeah it is dependent on the college but I think I read somewhere that in general it’s not more than 35K in savings, and an ‘average’ value house for your area. The house value doesn’t matter for FAFSA and for some colleges, and other colleges put a cap on how much they consider your home value as a percentage of your income. I wouldn’t worry too much about it unless your parents have loads of cash or real estate besides your primary residence. </p>
<p>Lol then yeah that’s definitely not a concern! Thanks for clarifying!</p>
<p>Congrats Dream321! :-)</p>
<p>Waiting until 12/1 is almost driving me crazy!! I am over the moon with anxiety waiting on this decision!</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to find everything I can on other finalist who ranked, did NOT get matched, but got into the school of their choice anyway. That way, if I do not get matched, I can still have a little hope that I might get picked up during regular decision.</p>
<p>I only ranked 4 schools and they are ALL extremely difficult to get into so I may not stand a chance, but we will see soon. There are a lot of very smart folks out there.</p>
<p>Good luck guys! </p>
<p>Congrats Dream321! :-)</p>
<p>Waiting until 12/1 is almost driving me crazy!! I am over the moon with anxiety waiting on this decision!</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to find everything I can on other finalist who ranked, did NOT get matched, but got into the school of their choice anyway. That way, if I do not get matched, I can still have a little hope that I might get picked up during regular decision.</p>
<p>I only ranked 4 schools and they are ALL extremely difficult to get into so I may not stand a chance, but we will see soon. There are a lot of very smart folks out there.</p>
<p>Good luck guys! </p>
<p>I don’t think I can wait any longer for December 1st to come! This wait is killing me! I know that we still get another chance RD but it would be nice to get matched (: I ranked 3 ivies so I have an extremely small chance of getting matched but I’m still hopeful lol</p>
<p>I have a question. I’m a finalist who didn’t rank schools and I’m a little unsure on how the regular decision thing works for Questbridge. I am applying to 4 or 5 schools that don’t require any additional supplements for finalists, so I would obviously list those for my Questbridge regular decision schools. But for schools like Brown or UPenn, who don’t accept the Questbridge app in place of the Common App, do I need to list them on Questbridge’s regular decision? Or do I submit the Common App only and specify somewhere that I’m a Questbridge finalist? </p>
<p>@lordjim NOT 100% sure on this, but I think for schools that require the common app, it’ll be IN ADDITION to your QB app, meaning QB will send your QB app to them (free of charge) and you also have to send in CA & other materials. There is a part on the common app to specify you’ve been involved w/ QB.</p>
<p>Today is 23 Nov. 2014. Seven more days to dream. My daughter worked so hard, and now She due to her hard work, She can dream for her 1st only ranked Upenn. Let us wait. Yes…seven more days to dream.</p>
<p>Apparently when people have checked their QB account they see “Optional Regular Decision Form” Does anyone else see this on their account? </p>