I was lucky enough to make the finalists for this year (yay! and congratulations to all those that made it as well) but I’m thinking about opting out from the ed round because my dream school is actually Cornell and it’s sadly not one of the partnering schools with QB. If I do, I am planning to just list it as a honors/awards… Do you think this is a smart idea? Like would being a QB finalist help my chances of getting into Cornell at all?
Did you rank colleges? If not, you could stay in Questbridge and also apply to Cornell. If you’re accepted to Cornell, great! If not you’d still have options available.
I don’t think you can add or drop colleges from Questbridge at this point. Did you rank any colleges? If so, you can’t apply to Cornell. If you didn’t, then you are free to apply to Cornell ED (I think this is what you want… if you are talking about RD, you can apply to any school then, regardless of whether it is a Questbridge school or not). And yes, being a QB finalist is an impressive thing to have on your app, even if it’s not a QB school 