<p>I can’t remember who asked me to post my stats, but here they are (I got matched for Princeton, who I ranked second):
ACT: 34
SAT Math: 780
SAT Reading: 760
SAT Writing: 790
SAT II Lit: 790
SAT II Math L2:800
SAT II Spanish (w/out listening): 740
SAT II US History: 740
SAT II Eco. Biology: 660
AP Env. Sci: 5
AP US Hist: 5
AP Calc AB Subscore: 5
AP Calc BC: 5
AP English Lang/Comp: 4
AP Spanish Lang: 3
4.37 cum. gpa
Taking AP Gov, AP Euro, AP Stats, AP Bio, AP Eng, AP Span Lit
Wrote about a car accident in which I was put out of school for a month with 5 ap classes, and then was able to run cross country and track again, and even get 10th in the league for cross country this year.
I actually wanted Columbia, so I’ll be trying for their RD financial aid package, just in case I don’t really fall for Princeton…</p>
<p>lol, I’m not a URM…too bad 
now i just don’t feel like asking teachers for recs again.</p>
<p>In response to lintu’s post #1183, 204 were matched this year (20 partner schools). My D’s chose 4 (small school).</p>
<p>These are the match numbers I have for the specific schools:</p>
<p>Amherst-4
Bowdoin-?
U of Chicago-29
Claremont McKenna-?
Columbia-10
Emory-11
Notre Dame-12
Oberlin-5
Pomona-12
Princeton-22
Rice-3
Scripps-5
Stanford-8
Swarthmore-6
Trinity-12
Vassar-10
Wellesley-3
Wheaton-?
Williams-4
Yale-19</p>
<p>kYLEdAVID,</p>
<p>your reasoning is flawed because Match recipents have EFC’s of 0 or very close. ( got this from Questbridge CEO) therefore, most match recipents would be URM as they are more likely to be in a financial situation where the EFC equals o.</p>
<p>Um. The URM part, I’m unsure about. I am Asian, and I got into Yale. Man I never knew there was a separate topic about Questbridge on the website, let alone this website lol.</p>
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<p>I’m well aware of this. Most QB finalists have EFCs of 0 or close. In addition, there are plenty of Asians and whites that have similar (or same) EFCs, but they’re matched at a much lower rate, as we can see from the RD stats. It’s not the EFC that gives certain applicants an edge over others in QB, because the college is still going to be dishing out the same amount of financial aid (especially since they have very constant finaid policies and the QB packages are set). It’s obvious that matching is usually for URMs (with 70% of the matched students). Hell, even matched students and QB staff acknowledge this.</p>
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<p>I didn’t say no Asians were matched. 9% are Asian (13% if you include the Indian sub-continent).</p>
<p>Yale offered me an interview. I don’t really know if i want to do it. Any advice? how was your experience?</p>
<p>29 Matched with UChicago!!! WOW</p>
<p>sheed30 are you doing yale for rd?, if so just do it. I had my princeton interview the week of the questbridge decisions so I am pretty sure it didn’t factor into the process, but I still just did it</p>
<p>I know…i was like DAMN! 29 to Chicago and i still couldn’t be one of them…too bad. I’ll think about the YALE interview and yes i am doing it for regular decision.</p>
<p>and 22 for princeton, 19 for yale!!! I am jealous, I do have to say ;)</p>
<p>also seeing as the RD process is equally confusing to the match process I was wondering if we could come up with a list of what the schools need/want so we can get the forms out :)</p>
<p>Yale: You have to send CSS Profile online
Chicago: Entire application, don’t know about Teacher recs though</p>
<p>Not sure if you guys are interested, but I finally got the non-match e-mail today. I’m glad I can take my other apps seriously because my number one wasn’t a QB school. Wonder what caused the delay…</p>
<p>are you an international?</p>
<p>No, California. It wasn’t just me though - on the QB forum, about four or five other people posted they hadn’t found out yet, and they were from everywhere - PA, MI. They also said it might’ve been server problems.</p>
<p>You know on the RD page where some of the colleges like Williams, Notre Dame have an email contact to notify for RD. Has anyone rec’d a response? I have to say out of all the schools on my list the most responsive and helpful has been Yale. Also Emory wrote me back on the RD but wanted me to get a fee waiver at school (which is not what the QB RD info said).</p>
<p>I was just curious, if your Father is black and did not raise you and your Mother is white and did, which ethnic group would you identify with? Would you think it right to identify yourself as a URM to get matched to Amherst or some other great school through Questbridge, especially when others rating schools had higher scores? Obviously, this strategy does work. Life is not fair, but it it is very irritating that it does work. I am curious to know what black QB finalists think of this strategy, especially those raised by a black parent or parents. </p>
<p>Also, would you feel good about this later in life, and be able to respect a white Mother who encouraged you to do this, or is all fair in love and college admissions?</p>
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<p>KyleDavid, I wish you would realize that you cannot draw your conclusions from the data you have so far been able to quote. Simply stated, the average statistics do not tell you ANYTHING about the process of selection at each INDIVIDUAL school. The length, scope, and details of the Questbridge applications permits the schools to match the students according to their own holistic process. A process that, for instance, happens to place great importance on WELL crafted and polished essays as well as believable and verifiable ECs. Lacking imagination for the former but an abundance for the second is not exactly a recipe for success! </p>
<p>As it is usual with about every discussion that attempts to introduce racial “discrimination” in the equation, you fall in the trap of relying on the few simple metrics that support your flawed proposition, all the while ignoring the elements that do not support it. </p>
<p>Let me give you an example of the danger of using simple data to develop far reaching conclusions is flawed: the ranking percentage. Don’t you think that a combination of students taken from schools that do not rank and schools has a profound impact on this metric? Is it a coincidence that many highly competitive schools that send massive numbers of students to the most selective colleges in the country do NOT rank. </p>
<p>Further, before brandishing the trite asian discrimination banner, you might want to look at the difference between absolute and percentage numbers. How does the 13% and 32% compare to their proportion of the US population? </p>
<p>Lastly would you please explain why the algorithm --a fancy name for a VERY simple process of matching preferences and offers of admissions-- makes it such a … crapshoot? Such a pejorative expression should not have its place in a discussion about Questbridge as it directly contradicts the care and integrity of its participants.</p>
<p>reflections2007 personally, i say just go with what helps you. life ain’t fair.</p>