<p>I have noticed that the schools that I applied to with my QB App ended up in jeopardy, while I have been accepted by all the schools I applied to with the Common App. Most colleges are need-blind, but if you are using a QB app, then you are obviously in need. Also, there is only room for six extracurriculars. Are these facets of the QB app a disadvantage? I am still thankful for QB because without the program I would not have applied to any of the schools I applied to nor started on my college application process as early as I did nor gotten waivers. However, is the disadvantage real?</p>
<p>Here is my current list</p>
<p>Accepted
Wesleyan (Common App)
UChicago (Common App)
UVA (Common App)</p>
<p>Waitlisted / Spring Admission
Northwestern (QB App)
USC (QB App)</p>
<p>Rejected
Rice (QB App)</p>
<p>Waiting on a few more; maybe after these come out, we will truly see.</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Pomona College (QB)
USC (QB)
UCLA
UCD
UCSD
UCB
Wesleyan U (QB)
Whitman College
Drexel U
UNH
Williamette</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Kenyon College
CMC
Pitzer
Vassar College (QB)</p>
<p>Rejected:
Northwestern (QB)</p>
<p>Waiting to hear from:
Bard College
Brown (QB)
Columbia (QB)
Dartmouth (QB)
Swarthmore (QB)
Penn (QB)
Yale (QB)
Williams (QB)</p>
<p>I thought QB got me in…because of the extra essays and short answer questions
plus, most of the schools asked you to submit common app along with QB app</p>
<p>UChicago doesn’t use the QB app in admissions.</p>
<p>@dulcecab13 Hold on a second. How did you use the QB App for UPenn, Yale, Brown, Columbia, and Dartmouth? Also, I thought Pomona acceptances came out on Saturday–chalk one up for QB here because I got accepted to Pomona yesterday.</p>
<p>BTW, does anybody think, Questbridge should increase the amount of fields for extracurricular activities? Six is rather sparse in my opinion.</p>
<p>I do think that six is a bit sparse; possibly up to 10? Just to be safe, I suppose.</p>
<p>And I guess there could be a certain stigma that comes with the QB App, but not for me so far, at least. Maybe my non-finalist status had something to do with it? But I’ve been accepted at all the schools where I forwarded my application (Northwestern, Rice, Vassar, Trinity, and a likely letter from Swarthmore two weeks ago). For the most part, they’ve offered me pretty good financial aid packages too, although not as much as I’d like, I guess.</p>
<p>Waiting for Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard, although that’s not QB. Good luck to you, though!</p>
<p>@John
I live 10 minutes away from Claremont. They were mailed priority on Thursday (3/24)
I know Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, and Columbia are QB schools I thought Yale was but I guess I forgot?
Anywho, I know not all of them accepted the QB app as a replacement but it was still available to send as supplemental information for your file…</p>
<p>Whether they used them or not I know not of lol</p>
<p>How does applying QB with an income of say 50k change your financial aid as compared to applying non-QB with an income of 50k ?</p>
<p>What does QB actually help with that the low income doesn’t already accomplish? I’m truly wondering what the benefit is with QB.</p>
<p>QB gives you the chance to get a FULL RIDE at top universities. If you don’t get matched, they grant you a fee waiver for any QB you want to apply to RD. That alone should be very beneficial.
their application is more in depth than Common App and you can forward the QB as a supplement.</p>
<p>Yes, a full ride due to low income… at most of the top universities an income below 60k (QB’s threshhold) is going to give you a full ride. So, is the “only” benefit then of QB just the free applications?</p>
<p>No. It also gives you three extra essays and fourteen short answers to tell the admissions committees about yourself. Not to mention the free applications :)</p>