<p>Okay, thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I think I’ll apply to QB and rank 0 schools and then apply to Harvard SCEA. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the help!</p>
<p>Phantasmagoric - How many students match with the different schools in OP’s list normally, i.e., does Stanford admit a certain number each year early in QB match and is there a similar quota for other schools?</p>
<p>They say there is no quota for each school, but there is a list of students who were matched and the school they were matched with: </p>
<p>[QuestBridge:</a> Students: Student Profiles](<a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge)</p>
<p>It kind of looks like a quota! You have to count the number in each school.</p>
<p>2009:
Yale: 24
Princeton: 12
MIT: 7
Stanford: 25</p>
<p>2008:
Yale: 17
MIT: 6
Stanford: 12
Princeton: 31</p>
<p>That’s pretty inconstant (for Princeton, especially).</p>
<p>I am not sure if that list is for students who got accepted and went there, or just those that got an offer. It does say “School Attending” yet the title says “College Match Recipients”</p>
<p>It is the people who got offered/matched based on my sample of one. I know one person listed for MIT in 2009 (I see her in the list) that went to Harvard which means it is what QB gave them but some may have changed it or left.</p>
<p>If you look at 2008 vs 2009, they are consisent - about 60+ seats each year. I also see 12 each last year for Columbia and Penn. I am guessing you should use Yale or Stanford as your top choice and allow MIT to be EA.</p>
<p>Question is how many ranked these schools. I am guessing a lot, say if one third ranked YPSM and 68 were chosen, that’s about an 8% success rate.</p>
<p>How did you get 8%? if out of 268, 85-90 got into YPSM, Columbia and Penn, that is one third of the total that got into these schools.</p>
<p>In 2009, 2506 students were chosen as finalists. One third of this number is 835 (number who ranked, I am guessing the fraction of those who chose to rank, it could be higher/lower.) 68 were matched with YPSM, which is 8%.</p>
<p>Columbia and Penn are binding schools, so I wouldn’t rank them.</p>
<p>I guess I dont have a clear understanding of the process. So are there a lot more people who were offered a scholarship but could nt get into a school if only 268 matched?</p>
<p>Btw, I see a person in 2008 matched to MIT but went to Yale in RD.</p>
<p>Essentially, there are two parts of the program. </p>
<p>National Match: Students rank up to 8 schools, in the order they’d like to attend them. QB ‘matches’ you with the first school that accepts you from your list. With the exception of 5 schools, this decision is binding. So if you rank Upenn, for example, and you’re matched, it’s the equivalent of getting in ED. Not everyone who ranks schools is matched, and they’re encouraged to apply though regular decision. </p>
<p>Regular Decision: You ask QB to forward you application to their partner colleges, in addition to some colleges requiring the common application and a supplement as well. You hear back directly from each school. </p>
<p>Here is a perfect visual representation. </p>
<p>[QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Flowchart](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/flowchart.html]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/flowchart.html) </p>
<p>I should point out that being a QB student doesn’t get you a scholarship, but rather the opportunity to get money from colleges. Through national match, each partner university has agreed to pay 100% of the costs, which is why so few students are chosen (in addition to other reasons, which are the same for all early applicants). Many of those admitted have 0 EFC, which means they would get a full ride RD if admitted anyway (at the Ivies anyway).
In regular decision, colleges are generous with financial aid, but they decide how much aid they want to give. </p>
<p>On another note…</p>
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<p>Kind of surprising, I thought it would be slightly higher.
Source: [QuestBridge</a> applications up | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/mar/03/questbridge-applications-up/]QuestBridge”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/mar/03/questbridge-applications-up/)</p>
<p>Yale and other Ivies admit students from other countries and give them full aid too. So all of the numbers they put out for full aid scholarships include a lot outside of the QB.</p>
<p>“QuestBridge scholar Ngozi Ukazu ’13 grew up amid a concrete jungle of apartment complexes in southwest Houston, where most residents spoke Spanish and few attended college.”</p>
<p>If you check 2008 list, she is matched to MIT but looks like she went to Yale on QB.</p>
<p>OP, you stated upthread that you are a foreign citizen. Most QB schools do not take intl’s in the match round, there are only a few that do if I remember correctly. You might want to look that up, it may make your decision easier.</p>
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<p>[QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Selection Criteria](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/cmp/criteria.html#Eligibility]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/cmp/criteria.html#Eligibility)</p>
<p>Only U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents are eligible to receive College Match scholarships to partner colleges, with the exception of Brown, Pomona, Princeton, and Yale. Students who are not U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents can still use the QuestBridge application, be chosen as QuestBridge finalists, and participate in the Regular Decision process.</p>
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<p>texaspg, recipients don’t go to the matched schools “on” QB, the funding comes from the school that the student is matched to. QB is the middle man, so to speak.</p>
<p>I am foreign citizen, but I am also a permanent resident of USA. </p>
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<p>So luckily I’d still qualify. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for looking into that though. It was one of the first things I wanted to know about QB, too. I am glad they’re not US-citizen exclusive.</p>
<p>Right - all i am pointing out is that the list is as it happened, not final acceptance.</p>
<p>She is listed as matched to MIT but she is going to Yale. So the list of where the students were matched by QB is not where they ultimately ended up.</p>
<p>Yeah, so if we knew how many students ranked the non binding schools, we could find out the actual acceptance rate. If more than a third did rank the schools, then the rate is less than 8%, which isn’t all that great.</p>
<p>There would be no way to know the true acceptance rate to any given school during the match round. I’ll use my D’s experience as an example. She ranked 6 schools and was matched with her #1 which was a binding school. While she was calling to withdraw her applications from the other schools per the match agreement, one of the adcoms told her that she had been on their “match” list as well. She would have not been included in their acceptance rate as you are looking for since she was bound to her higher ranked school that matched her. You would need to not only know the number of students that applied to a school, but also the number that the school listed as their picks, which would be higher than those who were ultimately matched due to a students rankings. Hope that made sense. :rolleyes:</p>