<p>If you are URM, you’ll get one from your race’s alumni association.
Just found out that I’m up for Presidential- with a 28 ACT/1890 SAT. Rest assured that you will get either Presidential ( half tuition) or trustee.</p>
<p>Go under aphabetical list of colleges and read through the USC board!</p>
<p>mr. Tubbz
how did u find out?</p>
<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>I’m a reporter with the Stanford Daily doing a story about the Questbridge program. </p>
<p>If you have either:
<p>E-mail me at <a href=“mailto:nrjoshi@stanford.edu”>nrjoshi@stanford.edu</a> so that you can share your story with me, and be featured in the Stanford Daily.</p>
<p>Thank you!!</p>
<p>To anyone who applied to Yale/Princeton/Columbia, etc (and ranked them): </p>
<p>Are you sending a letter of updates? When did you send it? And to whom?</p>
<p>I am particularly confused about who to send it to. Do our Questbridge applications go through the regional officers? If so, it would make sense to send it to them, but I’m not sure. Or should we send our letters of updates to the person in charge of questbridge affairs at the school? </p>
<p>What if you are a URM, does that make a difference?</p>
<p>I found out the other day that I had been approved early for admission to Stanford. Does this mean I still receive some of the scholarship that would have been provided from QuestBridge since I was a finalist but wasn’t matched?</p>
<p>Wow congratulations! That’s awesome. Hey, I’m curious, can you post your stats so we can get an idea? :D</p>
<p>About the scholarship, I don’t anything was going to be provided from the Questbridge organization from the start. The match, and now the regular admissions financial aid, all comes from the school you match with I believe.</p>
<p>Congratulations, venusinfurs! The financial aid package Stanford provides a student is the same whether that student is matched through QuestBridge or not.</p>
<p>venusfurs how did you find out?</p>
<p>He received a likely letter <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/457648-omg-omg-early-approval.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/457648-omg-omg-early-approval.html</a>
Hopefully they are still sending them out.</p>
<p>There’s really nothing stellar about my stats. I’m kind of like the average CC member. 2300+ on SATs, 4.0 GPA, bunch of activities, some leadership, some awards (no national awards though). I don’t know what made them give me a likely letter. I guess they liked my recommendations and essays.</p>
<p>hey guys,
i recently got a letter from emory finaid office saying “you have outstanding items that affect your financial aid status for the 2008-09 award year.” It continues, “Additional information is needed before your award can be finalized. An accurate financial aid award cannot be determined nor disbursed until your file is complete.” </p>
<p>Is this a general letter sent to all financial aid applicants?
Or can this letter somewhat imply that Emory will accept me?
haha… true, this letter says nothing near about me getting accepted…but
i feel like i received this letter because i have a high chance of getting accepted and they are in the process of deciding my award…</p>
<p>Did any other QB finalists received this letter?</p>
<p>oh…I read it again, and it sounds like a general letter sent to everyone.
btw, congrats to you, venusinfur =)!!!</p>
<p>What’s up people. Just checking in. 1 month to go before we get all our replies.</p>
<p>(This was originally posted in a separate thread, but Sheed30 kindly redirected me here).</p>
<p>Is Questbridge even relevant anymore, financial aid-wise, since a lot of the partner schools have decided to charge no tuition and room/board to low income students anyway?</p>
<p>The CollegeMatch program is basically like this: you apply super early, rank 8 of the partner schools, and hope that Questbridge will give you a scholarship. You use Questbridge’s own special application form; you don’t need the schools’ form. So that means you only need to fill out one application for 8 schools, instead of filling one for each of the 8. Is that correct? And if you don’t get the scholarship you are deferred and put in the regular decision cycle?</p>
<p>Doesn’t QuestBridge also prescreen participants in the program for low income? That would identify a target group for colleges, if colleges are indeed in earnest about recruiting low-income students. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/469331-do-colleges-actually-prefer-admit-wealthy-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/469331-do-colleges-actually-prefer-admit-wealthy-students.html</a></p>
<p>But yea your correct</p>
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<p>Well, some of the partner schools require that you fill out their app / supplement / the Common App.</p>
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<p>Correct.</p>
<p>The advantage of the National College Match is that it flags you as a high-achieving, low-income student. It really benefits colleges more; it’s become a way for them to recruit low-income students, but more than that, underrepresented minority students. Just look at the stats – the overwhelming majority of match recipients are URMs.</p>
<p>The real advantage of QB is in the RD: QuestBridge scholars (matched or not) fare much better in the RD round than in the match round. I daresay they fare a bit better than if they were not to have applied by QuestBridge in the first place.</p>
<p>How do they fare better? Why?</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure why – perhaps many make too much money to merit a full ride, or perhaps they don’t want to seem as though it’s “easy” to get in through QB. Last year, for example, Stanford accepted <10 in the match, but more than 50 of QB’s non-matched finalists were accepted RD. The stats are much the same for P’ton and other elites. See this:</p>
<p>[Matching</a> Top Colleges, Low-Income Students - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119509033710893611.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_marketplace]Matching”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119509033710893611.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_marketplace)</p>
<p>Is QB going to contact us later to ask us to give them an update?</p>
<p>I got an early write acceptance from Amherst today and don’t know how much QB was a factor - I made it a last minute decision, applied late, got a fee waiver, and used the Common App and supplement. Still waiting on financial aid news, but uber stoked I got in somewhere.</p>