<p>Good to know, EG. I know his account login and all, but I just haven’t been motivated to open it up and look at what’s in there. That’s his job. anyway.</p>
<p>Gamom, I think what EG is talking about is that, IIRC, the kids were asked to list the courses they had taken and that they planned to take senior year.</p>
<p>Wow, I completely misunderstood that! I was thinking you had to take a class on financial aid or something, lol!</p>
<p>No, what I’m referring to is an actual online short course or session, or whatever you want to call it. It’s about 10 minutes long for each one and there’s 5 or 6 of them. One on financial aid. They’re a quiz at the end of it…perhaps they did start it this year. I’m not sure.</p>
<p>I remember him talking about that.</p>
<p>Anyone know if you have to follow their recommendation form? I already requested recommendations which are to be picked up next year. Can I just submit those instead?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it’s pointless to skip the college match and just apply regular decision through QB?</p>
<p>At the College Prep Scholarship conference, I know they said a lot of people do not even go through the Match process (early one) and just use the Regular Decision process through QB.</p>
<p>Someone mentioned this before, but QB takes about 50% of their applicants for the National College Match. And only like 11% are actually offered admissions through the Match. The majority of students get in through Regular Admissions. So I’d say unless you’re completely sure one of their partner schools is for you, then apply through regular decision (not binding).</p>
<p>Anyone have their list ready for what partner schools they want?</p>
<p>Are you saying that you can fill out the QB scholarship and request to just go through RD with the partner colleges?</p>
<p>Remember, most, but not all, of the partner schools will only match with a student who has an EFC of $0. The best way to decide if Match is for you is to see which schools you would want to match with. If you wanted Bowdoin, for example, which, I believe, only matches with $0 EFC applicants, and you don’t have a $0 EFC, then I wouldn’t waste my time. Yale, on the other hand, does not seem to limit to $0 EFC … although, of course, it is harder overall to get into.</p>
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<p>Yes you can do only RD, but if your son is interested in any of the non-binding schools, he has nothing to lose by putting them down during the match round and then adding the other schools for RD.</p>
<p>also, remember that some schools will automatically consider you for RD if you rank them but do not get matched… you don’t have to forward anything or waste any time. I’m pretty sure Columbia, Penn, and Stanford are among those schools. That makes it very convenient because you have more time to improve on SATs etc… So that’s another point for match instead of ED</p>
<p>So, if you’re a finalist then you rank none and just go into the RD round? I wonder how many people do that???</p>
<p>Thanks so much :)</p>
<p>4th house,</p>
<p>where are you getting this info about colleges only matching $0 EFC candidates? how do you know which one’s will not use the $0 EFC?</p>
<p>From what I remember at the conference, the “Match” process means your family will pay nothing, the school will cover it all. (You can still try for other scholarships, but essentially, you do not need to)
If you are not matched in the early round and forward your applications for regular decision, the schools you ranked may accept you (obviously). The main guy said that just because you are not “matched,” does not mean the school does not want you–it may just mean that the school expects that your family can contribute to your tuition.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>[QuestBridge</a> National College Match - The Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/scholarship.html]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/scholarship.html)</p>
<p>If you look on each QB partners name, you will see that they vary in what the match covers, but there are costs to be covered by the student, such as student summer employment contribution and work study. Some also ask for a percentage of student savings.</p>
<p>It is true that you could apply for outside scholarships to cover some of this. I know Gates will cover Federal work study for instance.</p>
<p>You guys have provided some great info on here and I just want to make sure I have the correct impression of this QB stuff…they obviously provide a way for low-income students to make themselves known and give them the opportunity to explain certain circumstances. So does that mean that if you have had less than stellar grades for a while due to some messed up stuff going on, but then pulled through and did great during jr and sr years you still could possibly have a shot at getting into maybe Stanford? Assuming SATs/ACTs were good and all the other stuff. Or will a place like Stanford not even give a second look? I know it’s probably hard to say one way or another, but I just don’t want to get my hopes up too much if it’s a one in a zillion chance. Some people say QB really doesn’t make much of a difference and most of the kids who go through there have stats comparable to the regular applicants of the schools anyway, in which case I really don’t understand where QB comes in because if you’re really low-income doesn’t fin aid cover everything? I’m very confused.</p>
<p>Welldad: The $0 EFC thing for matching most QB schools came up at last year’s Yale conference. It was quite a shock to a lot of people who didn’t otherwise know about it.</p>
<p>So many questions, not so many answers. Oops. </p>
<p>Many people are saying that QB pays for four years tuition. Does that mean you don’t have to worry about anything for all those four years (applying again, sending new tax and income forms?) And also, what if you apply for another scholarship and get that one as well? Will QB lessen the amount you get?</p>
<p>Answering this question will shine some light on lsjny’s question as well. :)</p>
<p>I want to be the 200th. So I’ll say something completely irrelevant.</p>