2018-2019 QuestBridge National College Match Results

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[ size=6][ color=green][ b]Decision: Matched**[/color][/size]
[ size=6][ color=red][ b]Decision: Not Matched**[/color][/size]

[ b]Match to:**
[ b]Schools Ranked:**

[ b]Objective:**
[ list]
[ *] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW):
[ *] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci):
[ *] SAT II (Type, Score):
[ *] Weighted GPA (out of ??):
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list]

[ b]Subjective:**
[ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendations:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ /list]

[ b]Other**
[ list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Assets:
[ *] Property:
[ *] Extenuating Circumstances:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list]

[ b]Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments:**

I JUST WANNA WISH EVERYONE GOODLUCK! I LOVE YOU ALL AND IM PRAYING FOR YALL. LETS GET THIS BREAD MY PEOPLE!!! :x

Does anyone know what time it gets announced? Also, yea, let’s get this bread!!!

From previous year’s posts, I’ve seen 4 pm ET.

It’s out!

Decision: Matched
Match to: Yale!
Schools Ranked (in order): Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Yale, UChicago, Princeton, Brown, UPenn, Northwestern

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1570, Reading 780, Math 790, Essay 21
    [
    ] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): (35, 10, 34, 36, 35, 36)
    [] SAT II (Type, Score): Math II 800, Chemistry 800, Physics 790
    [
    ] Weighted GPA (out of ??): 5.0/4.0
    [] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
    [
    ] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
    [] AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish Lang (5), Spanish Lit (5), Euro (5), APUSH (5), BC Calc (5), Comp Sci A (5), Comp Sci Principles (5), English Language and Composition (5)
    [
    ] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
    [] Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra, PLTW EDD, AP Physics C, AP English Literature, AP Economics, Digital Graphics 2
    [
    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, Questbridge CPS, Northwestern High School Project Showcase Outstanding Award, Yale Young Global Scholar, AP + PLTW Award, Questbridge Finalist, Florence Steiner Award (Spanish), Middlebury Book award, National Honor Society

Subjective:

[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Coding Club (beginner classroom co-founder and teacher), Math Team (individual, 8-person, and relay competitor), Chess, 3D Modeling Internship (Project Manager)
[
] Job/Work Experience: Freelance Programmer, Software Tester
[] Volunteer/Community service: School Tutor, Botanic Garden Volunteer, Khan Academy Translator (Russian and Ukrainian)
[
] Summer Activities: Internship and Yale Young Global Scholars FST (on a Questbridge scholarship)
[] Essays: Biography 7/10, Short ones 8/10, intellectual exploration 9/10, rest 8/10
[
] Teacher Recommendations: 9/10 for both
[li] Counselor Rec: 9/10 (counselor knew me pretty well and I was one of his best students)[/li][/ul]

Other

[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
[
] School Type: Large Suburban Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[
] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: <$30000
[
] Assets: Minimal
[] Property: None
[
] Extenuating Circumstances: Mother works and is in college full time
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation in the US, immigrant (from Ukraine at age of 9), low-income[/li][/ul]

**Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments: **

Admittedly, I am not the best writer. So, I think it was great that Yale’s prompts were very short. Also, I think that my summer program at Yale greatly helped me with those essays.

Decision: Not Matched

Match to:
Schools Ranked: University of Pennsylvania, Emory University

Objective:

  • SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1270, Reading 690 Math 580, Essay 15
  • ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci):
  • SAT II (Type, Score): N/A
  • Weighted GPA (out of 5.0): 4.36
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Lang: 4, AP US History: 3
  • IB (place score in parenthesis):
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Chem, Introduction to Engineering Design, Honors Modern World History, Spanish II
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): QuestBridge NCM Finalist, AP Scholar of the Month for AP English Lang /list

Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mock Trial Team, Science National Honors Society, Physics Club
  • Job/Work Experience: N/A
  • Volunteer/Community service: N/A
  • Summer Activities: N/A
  • Essays: Biography: 6/10 Short: 8/10
  • Teacher Recommendations: Given that I've asked teachers whose classes I did really well on and were very nice to me, I would say 9/10 but then again, I've only been my current high school for more than a year so they don't know me that well
  • Counselor Rec: 9/10 since she's only known me for a little more than a year but she is super nice and helpful so I'm trusting that she wrote me a good rec letter /list

Other
list

  • State (if domestic applicant): Maryland
  • School Type: Suburban Public (population of 1500)
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Male
  • Income Bracket: <$50,000
  • Assets: N/A
  • Property: N/A
  • Extenuating Circumstances: technically my parents COULD pay for my college given with how much they’re paid but my family has been trying to apply for a green card for 10 years and we’ve been in debt for all of those years because of immigration fees that we have to pay just to keep the process going
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college here in the US, moved from the Philippines at age 9
    /list

Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments:
Well, first of all, my SAT score was BAD so I already knew that I wasn’t gonna get matched the moment I submitted my application. Second, I literally finished writing my Penn essay the day it was due and that’s a big no-no. Third, my parents’ incomes were a little too high even though I already explained that most of those money goes back to paying our debts. And lastly, I lacked any job experiences and any sort of leadership and volunteer opportunities. I don’t even know how I became a finalist at this point since I’m so underqualified. Well, I hope I get accepted to RD!

Decision: Not Matched

Match to:
Schools Ranked: Caltech, Pomona, Stanford

Objective:

  • SAT , 1580 (math 800)
  • ACT 35
  • SAT Math2: 780 Phys: 740
  • Weighted GPA: 4.2
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
  • AP: Physics 3, Calculus AB 5, Calc BC 5
  • Major Awards: QuestBridge NCM Finalist

Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): playing mandolin, music tour w mom
  • Job/Work Experience: N/A
  • Volunteer/Community service: Library 4 hours a week
  • Summer Activities: some music
  • Essays: Biography: I think very good

Other
list

  • State (if domestic applicant): Calif.
  • School Type: Suburban Public
  • Ethnicity: white
  • Gender: Male
  • Income Bracket: $18000 for family of 2
  • Assets: N/A
  • Property: N/A
  • Extenuating Circumstances: Autism, Father died 5 years ago so family of two,
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college, disabled/autism, legacy (grandfather for Stanford, EFC=0,

Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments: Not sure but almost no extracurriculars and bad SAT II scores (esp for Caltech since you need 800’s in math II). Think regular decision might work out though.

Good luck to us unmatched and Congrats to those matched!!

Decision: Matched

Match to: Princeton!
Schools Ranked: Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Brown, Columbia
Hope to major in Philosophy or Politics.

[Objective:
[ list]
[ *] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): none
[ *] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): (32, 12, 35, 26, 34, 32)
[ *] SAT II (Type, Score): U.S. History (740), Biology M (720), Literature (700).
[ *] Weighted GPA (out of ??): approx. 4.75 (school uses weird 6.0 scale)
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/255
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human Geography (5), AP United States History (5), AP Comparative Government and Politics (self-studied) (5), AP Biology (4)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, Pre-AP Economics/AP U.S. Government, AP Spanish Lang, AP World History, Pre-AP Anatomy and Physiology, Pre-AP Precalculus
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Yale Young Global Scholar, Politics, Law, and Economics; AP Scholar with Honor; Carnegie Mellon Summer Programs for Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Recipient; UIL State Bronze Medalist in Informative Speech; National Speech and Debate Association Degree of Superior Distinction; Questbridge College Prep Scholar and National College Match Finalist

Subjective:
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech and Debate (speech and debate captain, coach), National Honor Society (vice-president and humanities tutor), Theatre Company (One Act Play actor and student director), Union for Student Collegiate Success (founder of non-profit to expand college readiness materials and peer services to low-income students across my school district), Millennial Progressive (founder and editor-in-chief of a progressive philosophical journal, with focus on contemporary political and social issues).
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Domino’s Pizza (summer of sophomore year, to raise money for debate camp and self-study in AP the following year).
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 100Words (Texas State Representative; Questbridge peer-led charity organization to raise money for educational poverty - I raised for Palestinian Relief Fund) (40 hrs). Tutor for NHS (20 hours). Misc. tutor and seminar work (25-30 hrs).
[ *] Summer Activities: University of Texas National Institute in Forensics, National Speech and Debate Tournament (advanced to double octa-finals in International Extemp); Yale Young Global Scholars.
[ *] Essays: Questbridge Essay 10/10. This made my English teachers cry. I basically talked about how I grew up in struggle and how I found peace through fantasy - I would make imaginary worlds and countries with warring and political histories and would make them interact. Basically, I wrote how these experiences shaped my world-view and influenced me into thinking intellectualism could be a haven for me.

Second Quest Essay: 9-10/10. I wrote about how my dad instilled a love for philosophy in me as a child and how my unending curiosity would often play out in looking at roads. I talked about the road going to Rice for the College Prep Conference last year and how my dad would talk about the meaning of life, the nature of knowing, aesthetics, etc. I talked about how he brought me back to a time when I was just bumblingly curious, but now had a matured philosophic lens, reading Foucault and Kant and Hegel, and how this node of thinking influenced what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Princeton Essay: 10/10. This was seriously super cool. My college counselor from Yale read it and had his English Professor publish it on her blog. I picked the Maslow quote about problems and solutions, etc. I talked about meaninglessness and how social media increasingly robs us of meaning and how it distracts us from what can be meaningful. I used this to transition into me talking about how I found Questbridge and how, even with a litany of support from online groups, that I felt alone. I then claimed that we must have inner-confidence, which can never be claimed through any social platform, if we are ever to fully claim independence for ourselves. I did some narrative work comparing the pixels on my screen to increasingly redundant ballerina dances, some weird stuff. I really liked it.

[ *] Teacher Recommendations: Rec 1 10/10. This one was from my Biology and Anatomy Teacher. Although STEM isn’t my particular area of focus, she talked about how I always brought a curious and cynical philosophic lens into biology. She helped me find my non-profit and explained how we went into that process and how it helped me mature into a leader. Solid and very specific.

Rec 2 10/10. This was my debate coach and was seriously a moving rec. He opened it with a narrative about him scouting a debate practice on the first day he was at my school and how I invited him along and showed him the ropes - he then constructed some kind of flashback and talked about how my drive for curiosity and leadership with my newbies in debate shaped me into a proud and diligent scholar. It was incredibly poetic and personal.

Rec 3 (extra rec) 8/10. This came from my social studies (APUSH and WHAP) teacher. It was a bit shorter and much more straightforward, but described my evolution as a student of history from meek to outspoken and humorous. She really has got to see my humor over the years and made it shine through.

[ *] Counselor Rec: 8/10. I’m not super close to my counselor, but she let me read her rec with the SSR and it was, for some reason, really good. It was mainly academic, but just talked about how gifted she thought I was and how I had a lot of integrity, etc. I liked it.

Other:
[ list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): Texas
[ *] School Type: Medium, public - below state average, pretty bad actually.
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket: <$30,000 (EFC is 0)
[ *] Assets: 0
[ *] Property: 0
[ *] Extenuating Circumstances: Was evicted two weeks before application due-date, lack permanent housing and have outstanding medical bills. Used in my essays, too.
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First-gen, poverty, come from underrepresented school district, single-parent household, as aforementioned, evicted in September.
[ /list]

]Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments:
I just think I really came off as myself in this process. I didn’t try to be gratuitous and told plenty of jokes and really just talked like a person. I also think I really communicated my main interests in philosophy in my ECs, Essays, and life experiences. Overall, this is certainly a matter of luck and often things you have no control over. If you didn’t match, don’t be discouraged. I know it is easier said than done, but everything will seriously be okay. If you’re a Finalist, rest assured that RD will go swimmingly and even at worse you will get some great offers. Go Tigers!

Decision: Matched

Match to: TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Schools Ranked: Yale University, Tufts University, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Bowdoin

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1420, n/a, 680, 740
    [
    ] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 31, 8, 30, 31, 35, 27 (sad ik)
    [] SAT II (Type, Score): Chemistry:680, Math 2: 740
    [
    ] Weighted GPA (out of ??): 96.05
    [] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): My school doesn’t calculate lol
    [
    ] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My counselor won’t tell me, but I know I’m in the top 30%
    [] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (3), Chemistry (4), English Lit. (3)
    [
    ] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
    [] Senior Year Course Load: US Government (Dual-enrollment), Economics (Dual), College Writing English (college level), Short Story and Poetry English (college level), AP Calculus BC, AP Environmental Science
    [
    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Honor Society, Academic Award in Physics (School award), Academic Award in Calculus (School award)

Subjective:

[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): The Gay-Straight Alliance (President), The Black Student Union (President), The Gardening Club (Representative), Class of 2019 President, Varsity Girls Basketball Manager
[
] Job/Work Experience: Chemical engineering Internship, Biomedical research internship
[] Volunteer/Community service: School’s Student Leadership Team, Harvey Epstein for New York, All school events lol, Basketball manager, program tutor
[
] Summer Activities: Internships that were mentioned, volunteering to tutor kids to get into NYC’s specialized high schools
[] Essays: honestly I’d say an 8/10 bc I had been editing them since August and wasn’t completely proud of them by the deadline, but I still liked them.
[
] Teacher Recommendations: 10/10 Both teachers were amazing people. I had my 11th grade US history teacher (who I love so dearly and he told me that he had so much fun writing for me) and my 10th grade AP Chem teacher who is also the Gay-Straight Alliance advisor and he was able to bring in a different perspective about me.
[li] Counselor Rec: 7/10 I sat with an intern for 40minutes and basically wrote the review for her so it was probably really generic and just acted to say that everything I wrote about in my Biographical was true.[/li][/ul]

Other

[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): New York
[
] School Type: Small specialized Highschool (515 total people in school including faculty
[] Ethnicity: African American
[
] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket: ~37,000 for 2017, but on average each year we make 30,000
[
] Assets: my mom owns a car
[] Property: Nah, we rent an apartment
[
] Extenuating Circumstances: I live in a single parent household (My mom, me and my cousin)
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m a first-generation college student [/li][/ul]

Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments: I might have been matched because of the personality I chose to show in my essays and the personality that my recommendations gave off. Honestly, I have no idea and I really wished Questbridge let me know what the other schools decided on.

size=6 color=red bDecision: Not Matched/b/color/size

bMatch to:
bSchools Ranked: USC, Northwestern, Stanford, Tufts, UPenn, Pomona, Brown

bObjective:/b
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  • SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): Garbage
  • ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 30, 9, 34, 28, 30, 28
  • SAT II (Type, Score): n/a
  • Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.184
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3rd decile (school is overly competitive)
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): n/a
  • IB (place score in parenthesis): IB Math Studies, IB Lit, IB HOTA, IB Business, IB Mandarin AB Initio, IB Physics
  • Senior Year Course Load: IB Math Studies, IB Lit, IB HOTA, IB Business, IB Mandarin AB Initio, IB Physics, IB TOK, Theology
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Questbridge finalist, published chemistry journal with IUCr, first honors all 4 years (over 4.0 gpa)
    /list

bSubjective:/b
list

  • Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Intern at university lab for 40 hours a week during summer of 2017 and 2018, Chess club, Fashion club lol
  • Job/Work Experience: Started working in food at 16, paid intern at lab
  • Volunteer/Community service: Over 100 hours for service, but nothing specific
  • Summer Activities: Research opp weekdays and working regular job on weekends
  • Essays: Biography 9/10, Short 8/10
  • Teacher Recommendations: Maybe 8/10 for both, I didn’t see either but semi-close with both teachers
  • Counselor Rec: 10/10
    /list

bOther/b
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  • State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
  • School Type: Private/catholic all girls
  • Ethnicity: Black and white
  • Gender: Female
  • Income Bracket: around $48000
  • Assets: None really because we don’t even own our house (relative bought for us), one car
  • Property: None
  • Extenuating Circumstances: Depression and neglect from parents, unemployed father, parents are lowkey addicted to drugs, sister in college that my parents can barely afford, dad pays child support for 2 half brothers
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen
    /list

bWhy you think you were matched/not matched and general comments:/b Honestly I think because my EFC wasn’t 0 but it was kind of close, my essays were good/ maybe mediocre, scores could have been A LOT better along with rank, not many extracurriculars, and not many extenuating circumstances but still hopeful for RD
Congrats to all that matched!! Well deserved