<p>I'm only about to be a junior next year, soo I will qualify for the College Prep Scholarship. I am thinking about doing that but I'm having doubts on whether it is helpful or not for me to get into my top colleges. Also, when I'm a senior, I was considering applying to the National College Match Program through Questbridge, but I was unsure if that was helpful either. </p>
<p>I have tried reading the comments, but it was giving me mixed answers and such. </p>
<p>And on there website, I'm not sure what they mean by qualified. Like what are the standards they are looking for?</p>
<p>Can someone who has experience and gotten matched/finalist tell me their experience? I don't want to waste my time on this program when I can do it myself. But I really do need the financial aid and application fee waiver for college. </p>
<p>If you had a bad experience please elaborate why it was bad. Just don't say it was horrible because you are bitter...=/</p>
<p>it is helpful and here is a link to what they mean by qualified
[Who</a> Should Apply for the National College Match?](<a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge)</p>
<p>It depends on your income.</p>
<p>okay yes i know all this stuff… and they are still not clear i read that already. Do you have any real answers…</p>
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<p>What are your real questions? Is QB helpful at all? is asking for an opinion, so, yes, QB was helpful to my son (he was a finalist last year and will attend Yale in the fall).
The link gives you the basic category of students QB is looking for: well-qualified (stats and accomplishments within the range of the students accepted into the top colleges) and low-income (generally less than $60,000/year). There are exceptions to those general guidelines, I’m sure, but those are the basics, which you already know.</p>
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<p>My son applied for the College Prep Scholarship and was invited to the Yale Conference. He learned a lot about the college application process and realized it was worth putting a lot of effort into writing his application. He applied to the National College Match, listing only non-binding QB schools for the Match round. He was a finalist, but not matched. He applied to 6 QB schools using the QB fee waiver and was accepted to 4 of them, including 3 Ivies, and all his financial aid offers from QB schools met our full need, without loans. It took a lot of time and effort to apply through QB, but my son does not think any of it was wasted, since he was accepted into colleges whose acceptance rates are below 10%, and will be attending one of them.</p>
<p>Only you can determine if QB will be helpful for you. </p>
<p>Thank you scoutsmom </p>
<p>That was a really helpful answer. I wish there was a stats thing here, so it would give me an idea of the people who were accepted/matched/finalist.</p>
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<p>The fee waiver assistance alone should be enough reason for you to consider QB worth it, however there are many more reasons to utilize the Match program.</p>
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<p>Even if you had the stats, they wouldn’t tell you what you wanted to know, as the schools that utilize QB use holistic admissions, not merely stat based as some (state) schools would.</p>
<p>My daughter was a Match recipient several years ago and is attending what was her #1 school. One huge benefit was that she sailed through her senior year of HS without the stress of college admissions lingering. Even if you are not a match recipient, you will have a “leg up and put into a special pile” according to Dean Tom Parker of Amherst College (I am paraphrasing, his quote used to be on the QB website before they redid it.) Applying through QB also insures that you are on top of things and not waiting till the last minute for your essays to be done, as you will see many of your classmates doing.</p>
<p>Do you have to apply before junior or senior year?</p>
<p>I was invited to the Yale Conference for the College Prep Scholarship last year but I couldn’t attend. However they sent me the powerpoint and it was all really helpful. I was matched for the College Match Scholarship to the University of Southern California this year. I basically have to pay like 1700 each semester to go there! So yes I would say Questbridge is an awesome option for low-income, “high-achieving” students.</p>
<p>I agree! I didn’t get into either conference, I wasn’t even picked as a finalist for the college match, but I am attending Yale this fall and I’m paying pretty much nothing to attend. although Yale didn’t know that I was a QB applicant, I did forward my app to some colleges, and was accepted to all of them. so provided that you are a good applicant with a good resume, QB definitely does help, in my opinion along with that of many others. Do it!</p>