<p>Please post your results using the format below. Results are released December 1st. REMINDER: THIS IS ONLY FOR QUESTBRIDGE APPLICANTS! IF YOU ARE NOT A QUESTBRIDGE APPLICANT DO NOT POST!</p>
<p>[noparse] Decision: Accepted (Match) Decision: Deferred (No Match)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]</p>
<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]</p>
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Country (if international applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]</p>
<p>[li] Strengths:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Where else were you accepted/deferred:[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments:</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (800 M, 750 CR, 750 W)
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] SAT II: 800 (US History), 770 (Spanish)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 / 226
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (5), Stats (5), English Lang (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Not offered
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Lit, Calc, Anatomy, Senior Instructor, Spanish 5, French 4 H. Hardest offered.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Just some local scholarships/ essay contests
[/ul] Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Boy Scouts: Eagle Scout, five Eagle Palms, 46 merit badges, seven years, Order of the Arrow (National Honor Society) and bunches of other boy scout stuff
Service Club: (President) Four years
Shakespeare CLub (President, Co-founder) Three Years
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
Tutor for Math, French, Spanish
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
American Red Cross Safe Kids Initiative Instructor (three years)
Public Library (three years)
[<em>] Summer Activities: 250 mile backpacking trip. Some other stuff.
[</em>] Essays: Started in May. I thought they were very unique
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Saw both for other scholarships. Phrase used in both “Top 10 students in 20 years” and “Best (Class’s student) in 20 years”
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Don’t know.
[<em>] Additional Rec: Boy Scout Leader.
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul] Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: <20,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul] First Generation Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Who knows?
[<em>] Weaknesses:
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred: An inheritance was added to “untaxed income” and I think made our EFC higher. Maybe essays? I don’t really know.
[li] Where else were you accepted/deferred:[/ul] Matched to Yale (2nd choice after Stanford)[/li]General Comments: Ahh well, I was matched to Yale!!!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Math-770, CR- 710, Writing- 700
[</em>] ACT: Didn’t take it!
[<em>] SAT II: Math I - 720, US History- 670
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):4
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):Calc AB-5, US History- 4, Language&Comp- 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Physics, AP Eng. (Lit&Comp), Orchestra, Media Analysis (English Class), AP Euro
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Got a lot of Student of the Month/Student of the Year, 4th Place DECA State in Internet Marketing, Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award.
[/ul] Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key club! (President for 3 years), DECA, Debate, Hi-Q/Knowledge Bowl (Team Captain), National Honor Society (Vice President)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Kumon Math & Reading Center Tutor (3 years)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring at school, tutoring at middle school, elementary reading club, nursing home, I did a lot of drives and planned a lot of projects in conjunction with Key Club.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Jamaica Mission Trip
[</em>] Essays: I don’t think my Questbridge essays were THAT strong, but I loved writing the Stanford supplemental essays, they were so much fun, maybe that showed haha.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Pretty generic, I only read one of my teacher’s and he just listed all of the extra curriculars I did, lol.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Idk
[<em>] Additional Rec: nope
[</em>] Interview: nope
[/ul] Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):Washington!
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Korean
[<em>] Gender: All girl
[</em>] Income Bracket: <$10,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Have an unemployed single mom, brother has a learning disability.[/ul] Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: I don’t know maybe my supplemental essays?
[<em>] Weaknesses: I don’t know everything I have listed seems to pale in comparison with others, not the BEST test scores?
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred: I have no idea, I keep on checking the acceptance email to check if I really got accepted! haha
[li] Where else were you accepted/deferred: deferred at Yale and Princeton (I ranked Stanford 3rd, never really thought about west coast college)[/ul][/li]General Comments: I took the time and effort to fill this out because I want to just show that you don’t have to have like 2300+ SAT scores, or be #1 in school or have started your own organization and everything. I would say I’m super lucky but I believe this was God’s doing to be honest haha, I feel so blessed! Anywho, just trying to give hope to others out there. It doesn’t hurt to just apply!</p>
<p>Well, my mom has been unemployed for a year and a half so the only reported income we have is coming from gov’t benefits, that doesn’t mean I don’t have access to internet or something like that. I’m not a ■■■■■ whatever that is haha</p>
<p>I’m normally all for Stanford bringing in applicants through QB, but it’s comments like this that make me feel Stanford should rethink how it participates:</p>
<p>“I ranked Stanford 3rd, never really thought about west coast college”</p>
<p>How could you even consider Stanford without ever really thinking about “west coast college”? It makes me sad that applicants like you waste Stanford’s time, and worse, that you might call home the same university I do–of course, assuming that you don’t get into your other choices and are “forced” to consider the West Coast for college.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I sincerely hope you get into Yale or Princeton or some other college worthy of your complete consideration.</p>
<p>When you spend hundreds of hours of your own time and effort (a few years, too) to help out QuestBridge applicants and those who are accepted/attending, comments like that are really off-putting.</p>
<p>Lol yeah damn phantasmagoric, relax. Stanford was the only west coast school I ranked through QB also and I definitely wasn’t seriously considering it until I got accepted. Can the applicant live?! :)</p>
<p>It’s not that it’s not her first choice–I advise tons of students not to rank Stanford first if it isn’t their first choice (especially since Stanford is the most popularly ranked #1, with well over half of the applicants)–but that she apparently never really considered “west coast college.” The idea that someone would put him/herself through the grueling process of QuestBridge without being 100% certain that they want to go to that college (which is the most important requirement stated on the QB site)–and in this case, doesn’t seem to have considered it much–is just upsetting. She’s very lucky that Stanford is one of the few colleges not to bind the student to attend, which is, after all, the whole point of the program (so it’s almost like applying ED to a school you didn’t consider much, all for gaming purposes).</p>
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<p>That makes me even more sad. Thankfully the QB students I have worked with are much more thoughtful on the whole about the process, **before **and not after.</p>
<p>Looking past that though with respect to an acceptance, perhaps this is her chance to really consider “west coast college” for what it’s worth and she may eventually choose Stanford after months of the university sitting on her conscience.</p>
<p>I completely agree. While I tend to hold that you should explore a college fully before applying (as do most counselors), I do realize that some students come to love a college only after applying/getting in/attending. But QB is different; the program requires you to be very certain, since low-income students can’t afford not to be. It’s extremely competitive, and she was given a match spot probably over someone, another low-income, disadvantaged student, who truly did consider “west coast college” (and Stanford for that matter).</p>
<p>I see what you’re saying. But admissions officers are generally ignorant of which student wants to be at their universities more when making their decisions. Maybe the student applied to Stanford with QB because it did not required her to be certain due to the fact that Stanford is SCEA. Therefore, the flippancy is perfectly valid, in my opinion.</p>
