<p>I will have to talk to her, but she discouraged me about it. I want to go to my dream school. Haverford was not her dream school, but swarthmore was. She loves it more than any other school now though–sorry Swats. I love a bunch of schools but I want to go to one definite school of MY choice. I do not like to be powerless. I do not honestly see the point of questbridge, if I will still get full ride to those schools of my choice. </p>
<p>Yes there are certainly multiple factors as to how you get matched to one school–I am ignorant of exact process, but I have been told by my sister, who is a quest representative now, that money is the most important factor. Sure if a student who did not have any specialties in sciences applied to Caltech he’ll get rejected. Being poor as you made it clear is not the most important factor, but being qualified academically, it playes the role of who’s more needy!</p>
<p>Did I make myself clear?</p>
<p>bluepurple, you might be not understanding the match process, as it sounds your sister didn’t. You ONLY rank schools that you want. If you ONLY want Swarthmore, just rank them. If you will be happy at either Swat or Amherst, rank those two. Just because you can rank up to 8 schools does not mean you HAVE to. Please go to the Questbridge website and read everything, it might make things more clear.</p>
<p>You might want to refer to this table [National</a> College Match Program: 2008 College Match Recipient Profile](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/profiles_class2013/stats.html]National”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/profiles_class2013/stats.html) </p>
<p>Your family income of $50,000 is well within the parameters of matched students.</p>
<p>edit: I saw your sisters profile on the QB site, and she seems like an amazing young woman.</p>
<p>I see your point, but I find it little too much work if I apply to say Chicago as my only school, whereas I can jsut do the common application with my own choice of essay. It is a much simplest process. I dont mean to sound lazy, but I don’t see any further prestigue in Questbridge.</p>
<p>Am I wrong? Should I do it? </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I am again aware of the process, but ignorant of its importance. U of Chicago is generous and rich enough to give me a full ride if I can’t pay. I am sure they are need blind. </p>
<p>My question, which my sister answered coldly is that, does questbridge application give extra prestigue? Do they look at my academic achievements from a different view? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yes, there is a major benefit of applying QB only to Chicago. Go to the homepage of QB, and you will see that Tom Parker, Dean of Admissions for Amherst says “The moment you are identified as a QuestBridge applicant, you are prioritized in a way that very few applicants are. When you’re a QuestBridge student, you’re in a priority bin. They’ve got a leg up in a way that perhaps an athlete or legacy would have a leg up.”</p>
<p>Tom Parker
Dean of Admission
& Financial Aid
Amherst College</p>
<p>QB is a tool that a student can use to make yourself stick out in a very crowded applicant pool.</p>
<p>Sorry for going off topic, this should have been in the QB thread.</p>
<p>I didn’t know about that.
Thank you.
I will look into it.</p>
<p>ok one major down fall for me is that my SAT scores are low as they stand. If I apply by those scores, I am not looking very good. If I do Quesbridge, and do not get matched to Chicago, am I going to lose the EA of Chicago? If that is the case, then I have a dilemma on my hand, since I am much more ready to score over 2000 on SAT.</p>
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<p>This is so entirely flawed, I’m not sure where to begin.</p>