I Need Your Help with Questbridge Chances.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My school doesnt have a college advisor, so I came here for help.</p>

<p>Primary Stats:
3.5 GPA (school hasnt been challenging, so I've always put more effort into learning outside the curriculum)
2090 SAT (Looking back, I shouldve studied)
30 ACT (didnt have time to study, brealy kicked myself in the butt by not bringing a calculator, shouldve had a good nights sleep and breakfast, but oh well, right?)
I'm thoroughly convinced I'm much smarter than my test scores.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Drum Major, Band
President, Senior Class
VP, NHS
VP in other community service orgs
Started The Lambda Club at my school to promote STEM fields
Most Important Accomplishment - Extensive Tutoring I've done at my school to help prepare students for college--curriculum here really sucks)
I've had to become a college advisor, mentor, commumity activist and teacher here.</p>

<p>I produce music. (Im working with a couple local musicians.)
I program. (Im currently working on software that'll teach kids SAT vocabulary words.)
I write. (Short stories and small screenplays are usually my thing, but recently, I've tried to take up poetry.)
Heavily involved at my church.</p>

<p>Background Info:
African American Male
Low Income (<$10,000 a year in a single parent home of five)
Go to a severly underfunded, inner city school
For a little context, all students are low income, and the average SAT score is 1100 (thats not just math and reading, CC.)</p>

<p>Situation:
To my surprise, I was named a Questbridge Finalist last semester.</p>

<p>Trying to take advantage of this blessing as best I could, l applied to many schools. Colege Board and Questbridge made apps free, so why not?</p>

<p>Schools I've applied to (pretty pretentious list..dont judge me..ha)
Rice
Stanford
Brown
Wesleyan
Oberlin
Carleton
Penn
Northwestern
Yale
Cornell
Occidental
USC
Harvard
MIT
Trinity (SA)
Williams
Brandeis
Morehouse</p>

<p>What schools of this list could I get into? My number one choice is probably Rice because it felt like a fit the first time I walked on campus.</p>

<p>App Info:
I think I pretty much killed all the essays, and QB can only help.</p>

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<p>Ha… 48 views, no reply? Bump</p>

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<p>No high schools kids that post here have much clue for anyone’s chances at highly selective colleges, much less a QB applicant. How much value do you think your opinion would be if you answered some of these threads? Since you are not seeking advice nothing really matter what anyone else thinks. I think you would have had a better chance if you had done the match. But you should get some acceptances depending on your essays. I hope you didn’t make a bunch of excuses in the package or come off as a donkey. Post your results in the QB subforum (under Financial Aid forum) and should be exciting times. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback, BrownParent. I’m just nervous, is all.</p>

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<p>What kind of excuse is this?.. If your school wasn’t challenging, you should have gotten and maintained 4.0 GPA.</p>

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<p>Spirral, you have a valid argument, but situation is a little bit more complicated than I put in text. I just didn’t feel like putting my life story on the internet. Without freshman year, I have a 3.9 GPA.</p>

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<p>I don’t think a chance would ease your nerves. Simply put, no one can provide an accurate answer. You already turned your application in. Just wait.</p>