<p>powerb, one advantage is that there is no fee to apply for QB, and it forwards all your apps, so you avoid fees for all the schools you list. There also is the opportunity to get a CSS Profile waiver.</p>
<p>The schools who are QB partners have made a commitment to the program and so give these apps extra weight.</p>
<p>Have you looked at the app yet? There are all kinds of questions with 30-word responses about a fun array of things that help them get to know the applicants. That’s a lot of opportunities to help you stand out. If you were in the pool of 20,000 (or however many) applicants to YPS, it’s harder to stand out with their generic supplement. But with QB, you’ll have more way to catch an adcom’s eye while in a smaller pool (say, 1,000, or however many QB finalists put YPS down as a match). It’s a great advvantage.</p>
<p>And, as GTC said, getting this app ot of the way early gives you a great head start on other apps you may be filling out.</p>
<p>I know it almost looks to good to be true, but it is.</p>
<p>Now, I have a question, just to be sure again: Ds is working on other apps at the same time, too, because what if QB doesn’t work out. That’s not a problem, is it? As long as he pulls the other apps should he be matched with a binding school. He wants to go ahead and get apps in to his in-state public safeties.</p>
<p>youdon’tsay, if your son is matched, he will receive a e-mail to tell him to immediately withdraw all applications (if the match is to a binding school.) D called each school, e-mailed, and sent snail mail to tell them to withdraw her application. This included the QB schools she had listed for the match as well as others she had designated for only RD. She also had partial apps pending notification of the Match, and she called them as well, and they thanked her for doing so as she was being considered for merit aide and that freed up her possible award for somebody else.</p>
<p>QB is the entire QB program, which includes the College prep scholarship, as well as the National College Match. For all intense purposes of this thread, posters will refer to the National College Match as simply QB.</p>
<p>Also, if I am planning on applying regular decisions (b/c I don’t have 3 subject tests yet and my SAT 1 scores are not where I want them to be as of yet) then can I ignore all this jazz until December 1st when Regular Decisions application becomes available and start my QB application then?</p>
<p>Also, it says only a dozen international students were admitted and offered generous aid to their partner colleges in 2008 through regular decisions. If I am an international, is this worth the effort??</p>
<p>As I just posted to YDS, my D was responsible for withdrawing apps after her match. QB is just the facilitator between the applicant and the schools. Threrefore, I’m pretty certain the rest of your QB partner schools would still have you as an active applicant. Just to clarify, QB does NOT call your other ranked schools and say “applicant X has been matched.”</p>
<p>@phlpsun: I can’t really think of any reason why your EFC would be 15K. The max amount I could squeeze from the FAFSA calculator was about 500. Do you have some insane assets hidden away?</p>
<p>Someone appeared to be asking whether there might be any drawbacks to applying via QB. As another 2008-2009 QB parent, I can say I saw none. S even mentioned being a QB Finalist as well as a QB College Prep winner on his Common App that went out not only to QB partner schools but to non-partner schools as well. That last part had him nervous, worrying that such schools might say, “Oh, this kid is coming right out and telling us he’s going to need a LOT of FA. Maybe we should pass him by.”</p>
<p>Well, lo and behold, he got no rejections from non-partner schools and his FA offers from non-QB schools were in line, meaning, he was not “priced out” of schools who only wanted him if he was willing to pay more than was reasonable.</p>
<p>Do I need 3 subject tests for the College Match Process? </p>
<p>How advantageous is the Regular Decisions? </p>
<p>What if I end up getting only a “generous” aid through QB, when I could have gotten full-ride through regular financial aid just by applying normally?</p>
<p>powerbomb, have you read the QB site? They will tell you exactly how much aid you are going to get. You will not get MORE during RD. Click on each partner school and see their package.</p>
<p>@phlpsn: The institutional methodology is different for each school. That will give you a basic idea of where you stand. The fact is, that’s a calculator, not a person making objective decisions about what is and isn’t possible for your family. 15K is obviously not possible. Are you sure you have 300K in equity, or is your home worth 300K?</p>
<p>GAMOM, I don’t think I was clear with my question - on the site it says</p>
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<p>Does this mean that the QB application for regular rounds will only be available after December 1st? If I, for reasons such as not enough SAT IIs, decide to just go regular, do I just wait patiently until December 1st, or MUST I go through the “Match Process” even though I know I am likely to not be a finalist?</p>
<p>I’m confused about that too. I would much prefer to just do RD than match cause I don’t think I have a chance. I emailed QB about it and they kind of indirectly answered it. They just said that as a nonfinalist, you could go through RD. I am almost positive that all apps have to be in by sept. 30 regardless of your intention. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.</p>
<p>You apply to Questbridge, and if you become a finalist, they’ll forward your application to schools in the ED round, and if you don’t get in, in the RD round as well. You can choose to not apply to schools in the ED round by not having schools in your “my locker” page. Then, on December 1st, you simply add your school choices and they will send those schools your application.</p>
<p>Oh!! I see, thank you so much for clearing that up alex</p>
<p>So you are saying that regardless of whether we intend to apply as ED or RD, we must submit all applications and forms by Sept. 30th, but if we intend to go RD due to reasons such as not enough SAT IIs and whatnot, then we simply don’t list any colleges, then come December 1st, we add the colleges we want, right?</p>
<p>Should I list colleges in the ED round just in case anyways (even though I know I don’t have a chance)? Would it hurt come RD, when they see that I have not been chosen in the ED round? </p>
<p>Also, how is ED better than RD? (it seems that way, b/c ED offers “full-ride” scholarships whereas RD only offers “generous aid”)</p>
<p>is RD almost considered a “second chance” for people who weren’t matched in the ED round, sort of like a filter?</p>
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