<p>What are the chances of getting matched for a non first-generation Asian finalist at Yale, Princeton, and Stanford?</p>
<p>Stats:
2330 SAT
three 790 SAT II's
3.91 GPA</p>
<p>EC's:
Pretty solid, one national writing award, and a few regional ones.</p>
<p>I'm under the impression that Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are looking for first-generation or URM kids during the match round. If that's true, I'd rather wait until RD so I'm not rushed.</p>
<p>I'm trying to figure this out, so I know whether to start rushing the common app.</p>
<p>You definitely have stronger stats than I do. I hope you find a great college that you’ll love. I wouldn’t let anyone say if you will be denied or accepted without giving more context to your situation. There’s so many subjective factors in this. Maybe the admin officer will like your essays, sympathize with your situation or maybe it’s an off-day for that person, and he or she won’t. Let’s just do the best we can, and start on the common app. At best, we make predictions, but we don’t know the minds of the admissions staff.</p>
<p>I have almost identical stats as yours( 2330 SAT 3 x 800 SAT II, 3.9+ GPA and one national award). However, after consultation with my counselor and my friends who have gone through the College Match process, I decided to opt out of the Match process after the finalist selection, mainly due to the point that you mentioned. Looking back to previous years’ thread, it seemed to me that almost all matches to YPS were URM’s. That is not to say, no Asian applicant will be matched. Though extremely difficult it’s still definitely possible. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Why opt out though? It’s better than nothing, and if you don’t get in you can always apply RD to the same colleges. Unless you withdrew so you could do a normal early app, hoping to boost your chances that way?</p>
<p>Thanks for the answers. Sinflower, doing the match means quite a lot of rushing with the common app and supplemental essays. It might hurt my schoolwork, and the quality of my common app.</p>
<p>mathematicism: are you aware that Yale only requires the QB app? I’m doing the match process just for Yale if I’m a finalist. Just have to forward the QB app…</p>
<p>^ Yes, I am aware of that. But I felt that Penn would be a better match for me so I’m applying to Wharton ED.</p>
<p>Also, are you aware that Yale only accepts applicants with $0 EFC during the Match round? I couldn’t apply to Yale via Questbridge because my EFC greater than that.</p>
<p>That’s the link for Princeton, where they state requirement of the common app + supplement during the match round. You can also click Stanford and check their match round requirements, which include the common app + supplement.</p>
<p>I don’t know what other schools ask for the common app and supplement during the match round, but I expect there’s a few. It’s a lot of stress to just finish QB and then rush the common app, so I’m only ranking Yale (provided I even make finalist status).</p>
<p>This is a bit ambiguous. They could mean “qualify to make zero contribution” under Yale’s institutional rules, which state that anyone whose parents make under 60k a year gets a full ride. That would be almost all QB applicants. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, do you know if Stanford, MIT, and Princeton state anything similar?</p>
<p>^ It has been confirmed that Yale strictly matches applicants with 0 EFC. That ‘families with a total income of less than $60,000 per year’ was just to provide a possible scenario, though a very misleading one.</p>
<p>Ideally, I would be matched with Yale through the College Match process. My mother’s income is far less than $60k per year; my father’s is over $60k per year. However, they are divorced and live in separate homes.</p>
<p>Would my “family,” as defined in the phrase “families with a total income…” be both parents, or just my mother?</p>
<p>If both parents are considered, will they also look at the fact that both will have to pay for bills, mortgages, etc, and that my mother has to support my sister too? Or at the fact that my dad contributes virtually nothing financially to his kids?</p>
<p>I’m just worried about Yale’s policy because my dad will contribute as little as possible to my college education, but his income still might be considered by QB/Yale, which would kill my chances for anything.</p>