<p>aaand don’t forget that if you rank them you do ABSOLUTELY nothing for RD round if you’re not matched. you just wait a few more months. that’s soo good</p>
<p>@Code H: I’m doing that essay with the whole experience/diversity factor too. What are you stuck on?</p>
<p>Hell yeah! XD</p>
<p>I like the upbeat happy mood! :D</p>
<p>Do your ranked colleges see the scores you reported on the QB application? I have 4 SAT II score: 800, 750, 650, 560… I’ll have a partner school or two that will require 3 of them while the rest will only want 2 or none. Could I just list the top three and then only have those the score report for those sent to the 3 SAT II colleges? Then I’ll have the 800 and 750 sent to the others.</p>
<p>I just wanted to clarify a point. </p>
<p>That “no additional app” materials for Yale and Penn needs to be looked at carefully.</p>
<p>For Yale, during the college match round, only the QB app (and supporting materials like transcript, etc.) are used. Obviously, the bulk of people who rank Yale will not be admitted during the College Match round. For Regular Decision you will have to submit the Common App and Yale supplement. So, while making the QB app your priority, I’d recommend working on those as well so they are ready to go for the Regular Decision round. See the chart on this webpage: [FAQ</a> | QuestBridge | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/questbridge/faq.html]FAQ”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/questbridge/faq.html)</p>
<p>If you rank Penn during the College Match round you will fill out the Penn supplement to the QB app which is posted online. (<a href=“https://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/admissions/jsp/fast.do?fastStart=questbridgeSupplement[/url]”>https://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/admissions/jsp/fast.do?fastStart=questbridgeSupplement</a>) Note Penn also wants your mid-year report when it becomes available. ([College</a> Match Program: Penn FAQ](<a href=“http://questbridge.org/cmp/partner_schools/upenn/penn_faq.html]College”>http://questbridge.org/cmp/partner_schools/upenn/penn_faq.html)) Remember, Penn is a binding match so don’t rank it unless you’re willing to commit to attending there if selected during the Match round.</p>
<p>If you do not rank Penn during the Match round, then you have to fill out either the Common App or Universal application for the Regular Decision round. See the Penn chart here: [QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Regular Decision Table](<a href=“http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html#s1q21]QuestBridge”>http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html#s1q21)</p>
<p>Is it ok to get recommendations from 1 math teacher and 1 science teacher.???
They said they prefer 2 diff core subjects…but my humanities teachers dont know me all that well.</p>
<p>I had my ap gov teacher for just one semester and i have regular english last year. THe only humanities teacher I can think of getting recommendation from is 10th grade honors english teacher but i dont think that would be good…</p>
<p>anyways is it ok or will I get points off for that reason?</p>
<p>2blue: wait… I think if you rank Yale and Wharton, and don’t get matched, you do not have to submit common app / supplements for RD round. Ranking Yale is a great way to avoid their supplement, even through RD. You only have to do those supplements if you don’t rank them, but you want to apply RD and forward the QB app. Those two schools, along with a few others like Columbia and Stanford, follow that policy.</p>
<p>Still, can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>BTW I have another question that was never answered… I already have an SAT score but will retake in October. I’m putting the current score in the QB app, but, should I also make an entry for October and just leave it blank? (same for Math Level 2 in November)</p>
<p>@paki786: I thought the core subjects were English, Science, Math, and Social Studies. Which means that if you have one teacher from math and one from science, they’re from different core subjects. I’m using a Social Studies teacher and an English teacher…would you lump history and english together as one core subject? </p>
<p>In other words, I think you’re fine :)</p>
<p>When is the latest that you can take the required subject tests for the specific schools and still have them count towards questbridge and the college match? I’ve been waiting until November because it is the only month that you can take the language subject tests with listening.</p>
<p>@flyingllama: I read on the Yale requirements that you need to have common app/supp for regular decision round. Just not during the college match process. I thought I was pretty thorough in reading it… I could be wrong. </p>
<p>But unless you’re trying for RD, I wouldn’t bother trying to put November because colleges through the College Match process usually accept Oct as the latest SAT date. But yeah, you could leave it blank. I don’t think it really matters because when you send scores to colleges, you’ll be sending Oct. scores to them anyway so they’ll know.</p>
<p>@osc: latest is October for both SAT and ACT for college match. You can do November for RD though…</p>
<p>latest was June for Questbridge…</p>
<p>@llama: Wow we’re ranking the same schools XD Wharton and Yale here too. With a fre others…</p>
<p>Ju_liaa: Haha those are like the hardest ones lol, we’re the crazy ones in this whole thing. In all, I’m ranking Stanford, Yale, Wharton, Columbia. I’ll add Northwestern and Emory for the RD round though, and I’m applying to a few non-QB schools as well.</p>
<p>crystal91: Hmm, you’re right. Yale doesn’t dictate this policy on their page/faq anymore, however this is what Questbridge says:</p>
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[QUOTE=<a href=“http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html]Students”>http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html]
Students</a> who have ranked and completed the required materials for the University of Chicago, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and/or Yale University will automatically be considered for Regular Decision. There is no need to contact their admissions offices. If you have ranked and submitted your materials to any of those colleges but do not wish to be considered for Regular Decision, you will need to contact the appropriate admissions offices to withdraw your application.
[/QUOTE]
</p>
<p>Yet, the only schools that actually re-emphasize that policy in their own sections are Stanford and Penn:</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=<a href=“http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html#s1q14"]If”>http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html#s1q14]
If</a> you have submitted the Common Application to Stanford as a finalist, you will automatically be considered for Regular Decision unless you contact Stanford and request to withdraw your application.
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</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=<a href=“http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html#s1q29"]Yes”>http://questbridge.org/students/post_match.html#s1q29]
Yes</a>, if you ranked Penn for the College Match and submitted all required materials you will automatically be considered for Regular Decision.
[/QUOTE]
</p>
<p>Why aren’t the other 4 schools mentioning this detail? Did they opt-out of that policy for this year? The QB headline could be outdated… I don’t know who to believe lol</p>
<p>@llama: Yeah i’m going with Wharton, Yale, Stanford and Amherst. Doing UChic and Northwestern RD </p>
<p>crazyy</p>
<p>flyingllama, I got that Yale info from their Yale 2009-2010 QB FAQ page. Yale has their act together the most of all the QB schools in my opinion, so far as being on top of notifying students as to what is needed. Check out the chart on that page, which I linked to earlier. There’s also a QB specific Yale e-mail listed there so you can contact them and verify it if you would like. They have a fast turn-around on questions. </p>
<p>So far as Penn goes, I was trying to point out you need to read carefully because they differentiate between people who ranked Penn and people who had not ranked Penn once the Regular Decision process rolls around. Since you are planning on ranking Penn, I agree <em>you</em> as a person ranking Penn won’t have to submit any extra app for the RD round. I just wanted to be sure to point out to students who are not ranking Penn during the College Match round that they will have to submit another app during the RD round. </p>
<p>Does that make sense?</p>
<p>^ Yup thanks, that all makes sense. I’m still going to email Yale and Columbia about the “extra materials for RD if you ranked that school” situation, because these mixed messages are fishy, and those are the two schools that I’m ranking with the mixed messages. Btw, if anyone else has input on that matter, let us know.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone could provide me with some further insight on the QuestBridge process. Currently, I am planning on applying to Columbia, Yale and University of Chicago (among other schools but only these three are QuestBridge partners). I come from a family with an income of less than $30,000/year (I have no siblings and my parents are divorced). I would be the first person from my family to attend a university in the United States (my mom attended college in India, where I was born and brought up, having moved to the US in 2005). </p>
<p>The problem that I am encountering at the moment is regarding my SAT and SAT II test scores. Due to numerous scheduling conflicts last year, I was only able to take the SAT once, (combined score of 2040), and have not taken my SAT II Subject tests yet. Yale and Columbia both require subject tests and although UChicago does not make them mandatory, I’m sure they do recommend them.</p>
<p>Before I gained knowledge of QuestBridge, my original plan was to take my SAT Is again in October, and my SAT Subject tests in November and apply via RD to all my schools. However, if I do apply via QuestBridge, I would have to schedule my SAT IIs for October instead and if I am selected as a finalist, my original SAT I scores and my SAT II scores are what would be forwarded to the colleges that I rank. I know I can definitely achieve a higher score on my SAT Is. </p>
<p>Now, my question is: In this situation, would it be better for me to skip the QuestBridge process altogether and just apply RD to all my colleges? (with their respective applcations.) Since incomes are reflected in our applications anyway, doesn’t that already inform the colleges that you are from a low income family and hence, provide you with whatever leverage comes along with it?</p>
<p>@pemdas: QB isn’t just about income, it’s about the stuff you’ve had to overcome. It pretty much just gives you more space to explain yourslef. Now because of your SAT scores, i think that if you think you can get upwards of 2200, then you shouldn’t do QB. That kind of an SAT score and your other qualifications are probably enought o get you into a great university (i would advice you to look at mostly private ones, they will give you more $). If you don’t think you can get that high in your SATs though, i
i’d recommend doing the SAT2s in October and doing QB. I really think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>One other thing i’ll say though is that you should make up your mind within the next couple of days, because the application is very lenghthy, the essay are though, and it’s due Septer 30th so you pretty much only have 20 days…</p>
<p>hey guess what, Brown will be a QB partner for next year</p>