<p>I have a quick question-
and I hope someone will be able to clarify this for me;</p>
<p>So if you summit your application through the College Match program, and you get matched/become a finalist to one of the schools you applied for, does that mean you automatically are accepted to that school?</p>
<p>And if you do not become a finalist, you can still apply to a partner school by submitting your previous QuestBridge applications for regular decision??</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I only found out about this today, and it’s so confusing!</p>
<p>Also, for the College Prep Scholarship program,
if you submit your application by March,
when will you find out if you are accepted to one of their programs or awards?</p>
<p>adored, I’m not sure if you’re a junior or a senior this year. </p>
<p>The College Prep program is for juniors. There are a variety of awards, explained here on the QB website: [QuestBridge</a> College Prep Scholarship - Overview](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/cps/info.php]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/cps/info.php) Students apply in the spring of their junior year. Last spring the deadline was March 29th and students were notified of their results on April 22nd. The most common award in the College Prep program is an invitation to attend one of the two College Admission Conferences held by QB. These conferences are very interesting. However, I know students aren’t always able to attend. There is a wealth of information on the QB website (and here on CC) so don’t feel like you are at a disadvantage if you can’t go. </p>
<p>The College Match program is for seniors. The deadline for this year’s College Match is September 30th. I agree that the process can be confusing when you’re just learning about it. Something that will help you is to clarify the difference between being a finalist and actually receiving a College Match scholarship. You submit your application, rec letters, transcript, etc. to QuestBridge by the Sept. 30 deadline. QB then picks out students to participate in its program. These selected students are finalists. Students are notified by October 22nd if they are a finalist or not.</p>
<p>Now we move to the second phase of the College Match process. First, you have to have been picked by QB as a finalist. Then if selected as a finalist, you can be considered for a College Match scholarship. You let QB know what schools you want to be considered by, and which order you prefer them. QB forwards your app materials to those schools. The schools decide which students they want to offer College Match scholarships to. Should more than one school want a student, the student is offered the Match to the school they ranked the highest in their order of preference. </p>
<p>Most students do not get matched. An important thing to remember is that you <em>always</em> can move on to participate in the school’s Regular Decision process. </p>
<p>This is a very brief overview of the process. A flowchart with the deadlines is found here: [QuestBridge</a> National College Match - Flowchart](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/flowchart.html]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/flowchart.html)
Seeing it laid out visually can be helpful. Keep reading the website. I’ve given the condensed version of the program. There are other considerations to keep in mind. For example some schools want the Common App and supplement submitted in addition to the QB application. Also, some students choose to apply to be a QB finalist and get the fee waivers, but opt not to be a part of the Match program. So, keep reading the website. There is a ton of information there. Then come back with questions if you don’t understand something.</p>
<p>Hey, i want to know my chances of making the quest bridge scholarship with this infrmation:
I am an immigrant from the Democratic republic of congo. I came here on political asylum because my dad who was a member of parliament was targeted ( congolese civil war and its relation to the rwandan genocide). I am a junior with a 3.98 unweighted GPA. I take all IB/AP classes. I am a member of junior civitan club,french club, national french honor society and national honor society.I volunteer at a University ( research assistant), local Red Cross, local library ( i tutor and organize youth activities. I attempted to start a unicef club and model united nations club but failed ( im not very popular at school… high school and social status etc., i hate it). I am a low income student (food stamps) that simply wants to go to college to eventually give a voice to the “over looked” ( children in war torn portions of africa and low income students in america). i made a 210 on my PSAT ( will take SAT in december).</p>
<p>I’m a finalist for the questbridge match process and i applied to 8 schools, sending all of them my CSS profile application. If i dont get in the match process, do i have to resubmit them in again for the regular decision round?</p>
<p>I just came across your post and wanted to say I think your story is extremely compelling. With stats like yours, I can’t imagine you wouldn’t be a great contender for the college prep scholarship. Don’t be shy about applying. Go for it!</p>
<p>I applied for the prep program and was just wondering what kinds of stats/ amazing hooks/ cool stuff that those of you who got an award of any sort had that wowed the jury. </p>
<p>Just want to get an idea of what it takes THANK YOU!</p>
<p>Do you know if the Stanford/Yale conference is worth going? There was a short thread asking this exact question, but people only talked about meeting the college reps. Are there anything else?</p>
THANK YOU!</p>