Chances of becoming a finalist/College Match Predicament

Paying for College Access Programs (Questbridge, Posse)
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<p>Academics-
GPA: 4.0/4.0 (unweighted)</p>

<p>GPA: 101/100 (weighted)</p>

<p>APs: I have taken World History(3), Chemistry(5), English Language and Comp(5), and U.S. History(5). I am taking Biology, Environmental Science, Spanish Language, U.S. Government and Politics, Economics, English Literature and Comp, and Statistics this coming year.</p>

<p>Ranking: 1 out of 134 (my high school is a small medical magnet school)</p>

<p>Test Scores: Okay, here is where I falter... SAT: 1930 and ACT:29</p>

<p>Extracurriculars-
President of the class (Junior year and Senior year)
Health Occupations Students of America (Secretary 9/10)
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Secretary 10, President 11)
National Honor Society (Committee Member and Peer tutor)
National Spanish Honor Society
National Technical Honor Society
Lutheran Youth Fellowship (church youth group)
Hospital volunteer (Pediatric Oncology and Guest Relations...over 200 hours)
Student Mentor(11)
Freshmen Orientation Mentor</p>

<p>My family makes less than 45,000 a year (household of 5).</p>

<p>I am a first generation college attendee.</p>

<p>I am a Hispanic female.</p>

<p>Now, I am scared if I am putting all this effort into my application only to get rejected. Can you all please give me your opinions? My dream school is Notre Dame. If I do get selected, can I only rank Notre Dame as a College Match? I like some of the other partner colleges, but I wouldn't want to be binded to a college that I wasn't 100% sure about. If I don't get selected for a College Match scholarship for ND, can I still apply for Regular Decision and hopefully receive some financial aid? Thank you in advance.</p>

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<p>You’ll still be able to apply RD and perhaps ED depending on the school. You can rank as few or as many colleges as you want.</p>

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<p>You’ll probably get finalist status, but don’t count on being matched unless your essays are AMAZING. Yes, you can just rank ND. ND has EA, so go ahead and apply early. I believe all Questbridge schools meet 100% of demonstrated need. Given your income, you’ll get a sizable financial aid package if you get accepted EA/RD to ND, or any other QB school (not as generous as the full ride of the scholarship, but the chances of getting in EA/RD is significantly higher than the chances of getting matched).</p>

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<p>Technically, it is impossible to project who is a finalist and who isn’t in a full-proof manner… But really, if you’re not selected, something went awry.</p>

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<p>“if you’re not selected, something went awry.” </p>

<p>—if you are not selected as a finalist?</p>

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<p>the last post I was asking what was meant by the stmt </p>

<p>“if you’re not selected, something went awry.”</p>