<p>[ul][<em>]Has anyone heard of Questbridge's College Prep Scholarship?<br>
[</em>]Is anyone going to apply through Questbridge?<br>
[<em>]Is there any other incentive to apply besides the summer program scholarship?<br>
[</em>]Is this scholarship competitive?<br>
[<em>]How poor do I have to be?<br>
[</em>]How high should my test scores be?[/ul] </p>
<p>Stats, anyone?</p>
<p>I'm also considering applying-- does anyone know if the degree of 'adversity' one faces plays a major factor in selection? Despite a low income, I've managed to live pretty comfortably, and have worked around my obstacles rather than 'overcome' them in a way that would sound nice in an essay. Reading previous accepted essays, they all seem to be about absentee parents and forest wandering and single-handedly keeping families together at the age of 7. Also, how does competition for the Fein Fellowship compare to that for the standard QuestBridge scholarship? Thanks.</p>
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<p>Has anyone received an email from QuestBridge recommending you to apply for College Summer Prep Scholarship?</p>
<p>I received an email too.</p>
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<p>About the Yale app. essay, I know that the Yale program (yale SS, not qb) isnt selective, but should I spend a lot of time on the statement on why I am taking the courses that I chose (the one on the tale app, not the qb app)? Will the yale app have anything to do with my acception into the QB college prep scholarship program?</p>
<p>edit: I see that the essay only needs to be one paragraph, so I am assuming that its not that big of a deal.</p>
<p>I'm doing questbridge, but I heard it's really hard to get. Does anybody know the stats or cutoffs?</p>
<p>Thanks for mentioning this program on this forum. For those of you who heard about the program, did you learn about it through a mailing from the program, or some other way? </p>
<p><a href="http://www.questbridge.org/cps/info.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.questbridge.org/cps/info.php</a></p>
<p>I first heard about it through someone who won the College Match Scholarship, and I also recieved an email and a brochure through the mail about the College Prep Scholarship.</p>
<p>Are the people getting mail mostly juniors? I'm wondering how QuestBridge builds its mailing list. I need to tell some local parents about this.</p>
<p>A friend of my daughter's got a College Match scholarship and then my daughter received a direct mailing from them. D is a junior. Most of the mail seems to be directed to juniors taking the PSAT with a certain score.</p>
<p>I got a letter, and apparently what they do is find students with a certain PSAT score and then approximate income from census bureau records that are publicly available and send to the high scoring low income students.</p>
<p>^Not true. I have my very high income friends who got this along with me. I live in a decent middle class suburb, and all the people who got it are NOT low income.</p>
<p>"We receive names and addresses of students who scored highly on the PSAT, SAT, or ACT through the College Board and Educational Testing Service. Thus, most students who receive our mailing receive it because they did exceptionally well on their standardized tests and checked a box on their test indicating that they would like to receive information about scholarship opportunities. The College Board and ACT do not release information from students regarding family income. We estimate students' household income using data from publicly available sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau. However, these sources do not provide perfect information on the income of individual households. As a result, some of the students who receive our mailing do not qualify financially. We hope that these students will refer others who qualify for the program." (from their website)</p>
<p>Thanks for the information from the website.</p>
<p>admissions decisions come out april 25th!</p>
<p>^^I was wondering about that....where did you learn this degoutant? And for the record, token adult, I received mail and email as a junior.</p>
<p>just check the website</p>
<p>"The 2008 College Prep Scholarship application is closed. Award recipients will be notified by April 25, 2008."</p>
<p>^^Thanks - hadn't been there lately. Love your name^^</p>